Article 324 Revised Penal Code

Article 324 of the Revised Penal Code is about Crimes involving destruction. It is under Chapter Eight (Arson And Other Crimes Involving Destructions) of Title Ten (Crimes Against Property) of the Code.

Crimes involving destruction.

Any person who shall cause destruction by means of explosion, discharge of electric current, inundation, sinking or stranding of a vessel, intentional damaging of the engine of said vessel, taking up the rails from a railway track, maliciously changing railway signals for the safety of moving trains, destroying telegraph wires and telegraph posts, or those of any other system, and, in general, by using any other agency or means of destruction as effective as those above enumerated, shall be punished by reclusion temporal if the commission has endangered the safety of any person, otherwise, the penalty of prision mayor shall be imposed.

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