SECTION V
CRIMINAL LIABILITY OF MINORS
CHAPTER 14
FEATURES0 OF THE CRIMINAL LIABILITY AND PUNISHMENT OF MINORS
Article 84. Criminal liability of minors
84.1. Persons, who to time of commitment of a crime, have achieved age of fourteen, but have not achieved
age of eighteen shall be admitted as minors.
84.2. To minor, who has committed crimes can be appointed punishment or forced measures of educational
influence.
Article 85. Kinds of the punishments appointed to minor
85.1. To minors shall be appointed the following kinds of punishments:
85.1.1. penalty;
85.1.2. public works;
85.1.3. corrective works;
85.1.4. imprisonment on a certain term.
85.2. The penalty shall be appointed only at presence at a minor, who is condemned, of independent
earnings or property on which collecting can be inverted. The penalty is appointed at a rate from thirty up to
three hundred of the nominal financial unit established by the legislation of the Azerbaijan Republic.
85.3. Public works shall be appointed for the term from forty up to hundred sixty, consist in performance of
works, feasible for the minor condemned in free from study or basic work time. Duration of execution of the
given kind of punishment by persons in the age of till fifteen years can not exceed two hours per day, and
persons in the age from fifteen till sixteen years - three hours per day.
85.4. Corrective works shall be appointed to minor condemned for the term from two months up to one year.
In this case from earnings of condemned shall be made deduction to state at a rate, established by a
decision of court, in limits from five up to twenty percents.
85.5. Imprisonment can be appointed to minor condemned for the term not over ten years. Minors
condemned shall serve time in the following educational establishments:
85.5.1. minor girls, and also minor boys condemned for the first time to imprisonment - in educational
establishments of the general mode;
85.5.2. minor boys, earlier punished to imprisonment - in educational establishments of the strengthened
mode.
Article 86. Assignment of punishment to a minor
86.1. At assignment of punishment to a minor except for the circumstances provided by article 58 of the
present Code, court also takes into account conditions of life and education of this person, a level of mental
development, other features of his individual, and also influence on him of extraneous persons.
86.2. At assignment of punishment as softening circumstance to minor shall be taken into account in
aggregate with other circumstances mitigating and aggravating punishment.
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