Generally Dangerous Means
Article 330
(1) A person who sets on fire a building, equipment and implements, goods, farming or
other produce, a forest, machinery, an ore mine or other property of considerable value, shall be
punished for arson by imprisonment for one to eight years.
(2) The punishment shall be imprisonment for three to ten years:
1. if the act has constituted a danger for another person's life;
2. if there has been danger for it to spread also to other properties, such as those indicated
above;
3. if the property set on fire has been of historic, scientific or artistic value, or if in the
premises set on fire, objects have been kept of historic, scientific or artistic value;
4. (new, SG No. 92/2002) where the arson has been committed by an individual acting on
the orders or of or executing a decision of an organisation or group under Article 321a or an
organised criminal group;
5. (new, SG No. 26/2004) where the forest or other property of significant value set on fire
are located within a protected area.
(3) If in the cases under the preceding paragraph considerable damages have followed, the
punishment shall be imprisonment for three to twelve years, and if the death of somebody has
followed, where the perpetrator did not wish nor assumed that, the punishment shall be
imprisonment for five to fifteen years.
Article 331
(1) A person who through negligence sets fire to another person's property under the
preceding article, shall be punished by imprisonment for up to three years.
(2) (New, SG No. 92/2002) Anyone who puts fire to a stubble-field thus causing fire to the
forest fund shall be punished by imprisonment of up to three years and a fine from BGN five
hundred to five thousand.
(3) (Renumbered from Paragraph 2, SG No. 92/2002) If death has followed or
considerable damages, the punishment shall be imprisonment for up to five years.
Article 332
For arson the perpetrator shall not be punished, if on his own incentive he has immediately
put out the fire, before considerable damages had set in.
Article 333
Where the objects under Article 330 have been damaged or destroyed by an explosive, the
respective punishments provided in this article shall be correspondingly imposed.
Article 334
(1) A person who causes an inundation and thereby exposes to danger the life or property
of another shall be punished by imprisonment for three to twelve years.
(2) If in this case considerable damages have followed, the punishment shall be
imprisonment for five to fifteen years, and if death has followed for somebody, where the
perpetrator did not wish nor assumed that, the punishment shall be imprisonment for ten to