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Article 135

• A person, who injured or made ill, where their victim lost sight, speech, fertility, pregnancy or was otherwise seriously disabled, acquired incurable disease or a long-lasting disease, which is life-threatening or severely disordering the human mind, or lost much of their professional or general efficiency, or where the victim’s body was deformed beyond repair, is punished by imprisonment for up to ten years.
• A person, who severely injured or made ill a minor, a helpless person, their own mother, father or child, pregnant woman, two or more people, with torture or otherwise cruelly, by a life-threatening way, because of recklessness, because of selfishness, because of the victim’s service or citizen duties, trying to conceal an other crime, trying to get an organ or tissue of a victim for transplantation purpose, is punished by imprisonment from two to twelve years.

Article 137. Severe health injury because of carelessness.

• A person, who has severely injured or made ill another person because of carelessness, is punished by detention or imprisonment for up to three years.
• A person, who has severely injured or made ill two or more people because of carelessness is punished by imrisonment for up to five years.
• A person, who has performed the actions foreseen in parts 1 or 2 above by violating and special rules of safe behaviour vested in legislative acts, is punished by imprisonment for up to seven years.
• A legal entity is also responsible for actions foreseen in the part 3 of the present article.

Article 277. Violation of the rules of fighting epidemics or communicable diseases.

• A person, who has violated healthcare requirements or the rules of prevention and control of communicable diseases, stated in the legislative acts, and a disease has spread or epidemic occurred because of that, is punished by fine, detention or imprisonment for up to three years.
• A person, who, being informed by a medical institution about his disease or cautioned about means of protection he must take while communicating with other people, puts into danger another person or infects with threatening infectious diseases, committs a crime and is punished by public work or fine, deprivation detention or imprisonment.
• A person pays the penalty according to this article in the cases when actions foreseen in this article are performed because of carelessness.
• A legal entity is also responsible for actions foreseen in the part 1 of the present article.