Article 43. Basic and additional kinds of punishments
43.1. Public works, corrective works, restriction on military service, maintenance in disciplinary military unit,
restriction of freedom, imprisonment on the certain term and life imprisonment shall apply only as the basic
kinds of punishments.
43.2. The penalty and deprivation of the right to hold the certain posts or to engage in the certain activity
shall apply as the basic and additional kinds of punishments.
43.3. Deprivation of a special or military rank, honorary title or state award, deprivation of the right to operate
a vehicle, confiscation of property and exclusion for limits of the Azerbaijan Republic shall apply only as
additional kinds of the punishment.
Article 44. Penalty
44.1. The penalty is a monetary collecting appointed by court in circumstances and fine amounts, provided
by the present Code.
44.2. The penalty is appointed at a rate of from hundred up to five thousand of nominal financial unit,
established by the legislation of the Azerbaijan Republic, in view of seriousness of the crime and a property
status of the sentenced.
44.3. The penalty as an additional kind of punishment can be appointed by courts only in the cases provided
by appropriate articles of the Especial part of the present Code.
44.4. To persons, who are deliberately evade from payment of the fine, fine can be replaced with public
works, corrective works or imprisonment with the certain term.
Article 45. Deprivation of the right to operate a vehicle
Punishment as deprivation of the right to operate a vehicle shall be appointed for the term from one year up
to five years in circumstances provided by appropriate articles of the present Code, in view of nature of a
crime and personality of guilty and other circumstances of a crime.
Article 46. Deprivation of the right to hold a certain posts or to engage the certain activities
46.1. Deprivation of the right to hold a certain posts or to engage the certain activities shall consist of
prohibition to hold concrete posts in state bodies, in institutions of local government or to engage concrete
professional or other activities. Punishment established for the term from one year to five years shall be
basic kind of punishment and for the term from one year to three years as an additional kind of punishment.
46.2. Deprivation of the right to hold certain posts or to engage the certain activities, can be appointed as an
additional kind of punishment and in circumstances, when it is not provided by appropriate article of the
Especial part of the present Code, in view of nature and degrees of public danger of a crime and person
guilty. The court recognizes impossible preservation of rights by him to hold the certain posts or to engage in
the certain activities.
46.3. In case of assignment deprivation of the right to hold the certain posts or to engage in the certain
activities as additional to public works, corrective works, and also at conditional condemnation, its term shall
be estimated from the moment of the introduction of a decision into validity. In case of assignment of this
kind of punishment as additional to the maintenance in disciplinary military unit or to imprisonment, it is
distributed on all time of serving specified basic kinds of punishments, and also, over it, for the term,
established in a decision for this kind of punishment.
Article 47. Public works
47.1. Public works shall consist of performance by condemned in free from the basic work or study time of
free-of-charge socially useful works. The appropriate bodies of the executive power shall determine such
kind of works.
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