SECTION IICommitting acts which aim at hindering a person who holds a state function to apply the law, when those acts have caused serious consequences to the citizens or state's interest, is sentenced to a fine or up to seven years of imprisonment.
CRIMINAL ACTS AGAINST THE ACTIVITY OF THE STATE COMMITTED BY PUBLIC OFFICIALS
Article 248
Abuse of office
Article 249Continuing to act in a capacity in either the state administration or public service by a person who has been informed of a decision or circumstance terminating its exercise, constitutes criminal contravention and is sentenced to a fine or up to one year of imprisonment.
Acting in a capacity after its termination
Article 250Committing acts or giving orders which are arbitrary, by an official acting in a state function or public service while exercising his duty, which affect the freedom of citizens, is sentenced to a fine or up to seven years of imprisonment.
Committing arbitrary acts
Article 251Refusing to take measures, or refusing to request from a competent person action to stop an unlawful situation resulting from an arbitrary act, which has affected the freedom of citizens, by the person in charge of a state function or public service, who learns of the situation because of the function or service, is sentenced to a fine or up to three years of imprisonment.
Refusing to take measures to stop unlawful situation
Article 252Detaining in prison without a decision of the competent body or beyond the term determined in the decision or by law, committed by a person holding the office of prison administrator, constitutes criminal contravention and is sentenced to a fine or up to two years of imprisonment.
Illegal detainment
Article 253Discrimination by a worker holding a state function or public service conducted because of his capacity or during its exercise, when the discrimination is based upon origin, ***, health situation, religious or political beliefs, trade-union activity or because of belonging to a particular ethnic group, nation, race or religion, which consists in creating unfair privileges or in refusing a right or benefit deriving by law, is sentenced to a fine or up to five years of imprisonment.
Denying equality of the citizens
Article 254Entering into premises without the consent of a person living therein, committed by a person holding a state function or public service during the exercise of his duty, except the cases when it is permitted by law, is sentenced to a fine or up to five years of imprisonment.
Infringing the inviolability of residence
Article 255Giving orders or committing actions for destroying, reading and spreading mail correspondence or which breaks, makes it more difficult, puts under control or eavesdrops phone correspondence or any other means of communication, committed by the person holding a state function or public service during the exercise of his duty, except the cases when it is permitted by law, is sentenced to a fine or up to three years of imprisonment.
Hindering and violating the secrecy of correspondence
Article 256Misusing contributions, subsidies or financing given by the state or state institutions to be used in works and activities of public interest, is sentenced to a fine or up to three years of imprisonment.
Misusing state contributions
Article 257Direct or indirect holding, retaining or benefitting from any sort of interest by persons holding state functions or public service in an enterprise or operation in which, at the time of conducting the act, he was holding the capacity of supervisor, administrator or liquidator, is sentenced to a fine or up to four years of imprisonment.
Illegal benefitting from interests
Article 258Committing actions in breach of the laws which regulate the freedom of participants and the equality of citizens in bids and public auctions, by a person holding state functions or public service in order to create illegal advantage or benefits for third parties, is sentenced to a fine or up to three years of imprisonment.
Breaching the equality of participants in public bids or auctions
Article 259A person holding state functions or public service who asks or commands remunerations for which he is not entitled or which exceed the amount allowable by law, is sentenced to a fine or up to seven years of imprisonment.
Asking for kickbacks
Article 260Receiving remunerations, gifts or other benefits by a person holding state functions or public service and during their exercise, in order to carry out or to avoid carrying out an act related to the function or service, or to exercise his influence toward different authorities in order to provide to any person favors, gratuities, jobs and other benefits, is sentenced from three to ten years of imprisonment.
Receiving a bribe
SECTION IIICommitting acts which prevent citizens from exercising the right of free speech or assembly constitutes criminal contravention and is sentenced to a fine or up to six months of imprisonment.
CRIMINAL ACTS AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER AND SECURITY
Article 261
Preventing the exercise of freedom of speech and assembly
When those acts are accompanied with use of physical violence, they are sentenced to a fine or up to three years of imprisonment.
Article 262Organizing assembly of people in squares and places of public passage, without prior permission by the competent authority according to the specific provisions or when organizers breach the conditions provided in the request for permission, constitutes criminal contravention and is sentenced to a fine or up to one year of imprisonment.
Organizing or participating in illegal assembly
Participating in unlawful assembly even after a warning has been made to dissolve [it], constitutes criminal contravention and is sentenced to a fine or up to three months of imprisonment.
Article 263Organizing illegal assembly with participation by armed people is sentenced to a fine or up to three years of imprisonment.
Organizing illegal assembly with participation by armed people
Participation in illegal assembly of armed people constitutes criminal contravention and is sentenced to a fine or up to one year of imprisonment.
Article 264Forcing an employee to strike or not to strike against his will or creating obstacles and problems for continuing his job when the employee wishes to work, constitutes criminal contravention and is sentenced to a fine or up to three months of imprisonment.
Forcing to strike or not to strike
Article 265Inciting nationality, racial and religious hatred or conflict as well as preparing, propagating, or preserving with the intent of propagating, of writings with that content, is sentenced to a fine or to up ten years of imprisonment.
Inciting nationality, racial and religious hatred or conflict
Article 266Endangering public peace by calling for national hatred against other parts of the population, by insulting or defaming them, or by requesting the use of force or arbitrary actions against them, is sentenced to a fine or up to five years of imprisonment.
Calls for national hatred
Article 267Propagating false information or news, in words, in writing, or in any other way, in order to incite a state of insecurity or panic in people, is sentenced to a fine or up to five years of imprisonment.
Propagating false information for panic
Article 268Defamation, made publicly or through publications or distribution of writings, of the Republic of Albania and [her] constitutional order, flag, emblem, anthem, martyrs of the nation or abolishing, damaging, destroying, making indistinct or unusable the flag or emblem of the Republic of Albania exposed by official institutions, constitutes criminal contravention and is sentenced to a fine or up to two years of imprisonment.
Defamation of the Republic and her symbols
Article 269Forced obstruction of the lawful activity of political parties, organizations or associations constitutes criminal contravention and is sentenced to a fine or up to two years of imprisonment.
Forced obstruction of the activity of political parties
Article 270Use of force by prisoners toward an official holding a state duty or public service, which is made in order to prevent the exercise of the duty or service or because of the activity, it is sentenced to a fine or up to five years of imprisonment.
Prisoner's rebellion
When use of force is conducted by a group of persons or is accompanied with riots and disorders or threats and intimidation, it is sentenced to a fine or up to ten years of imprisonment.
Article 271Intentionally providing false information to emergency units [with the purpose of] hindering their effectiveness, committed with any means of information or communication, constitutes criminal contravention and is sentenced to a fine or up to one year of imprisonment.
Providing false information to emergency units
Article 272Providing false information to the police about the commitment of a criminal act, with the intent of placing them into a state of promptness or alarm, constitutes criminal contravention and is sentenced to a fine or up to one year of imprisonment
False information
Article 273Leaving the scene of accident by a driver of a vehicle or of any other motorized means, in order to avoid criminal, civil or administrative responsibility, constitutes criminal contravention and is sentenced to a fine or up to one year of imprisonment.
Leaving the scene of accident
Article 274Throwing stones or other items into the premises of a citizen, creating bothersome noises such as gunshots or different blasts, using sirens on vehicles irregularly, or doing any other indecent behavior in streets, squares and public places, which clearly affect peace and morality or show a clear indifference for the environment, constitutes criminal contravention and is sentenced to a fine or up to two years of imprisonment.
Breach of public peace
Wrongful intentional use of telephone calls made to breach a third party's peace and quiet enjoyment constitutes criminal contravention and is sentenced to a fine or up to one year of imprisonment.
Article 275
Wrongful intentional use of telephone calls
Article 276Unlawful use of the emblem of Red Cross or Red Crescent , when it has caused serious material consequences, constitutes criminal contravention and is sentenced to a fine or up to two years of imprisonment.
Unlawful use of the Red Cross emblem
When the criminal act has led to death or serious harmto the health of an individual, it is sentenced to a fine or up to ten years of imprisonment.
Article 277The exercise of a right by a person who retains it or who thinks he does but it is not recognized by another person, without addressing the appropriate state competent body, constitutes criminal contravention and is sentenced to a fine or up to three months of imprisonment.
Self-made justice
Article 278Manufacturing military weapons and ammunition, bombs and mines, without the permission of competent state bodies, is sentenced from five to ten years of imprisonment.
Illegal manufacturing and keeping military weapons and ammunition
Holding, buying or selling weapons, bombs or mines without the authorization of state competent bodies, is sentenced to a fine or up to seven years of imprisonment.
Holding bullets of light military weapons without the authorization of state competent bodies, constitutes criminal contravention and is sentenced to a fine or up to one year of imprisonment.
Article 279Manufacturing, keeping, buying or selling cold weapons, such as swords, bayonets, knives and other means prepared and intended specifically for assaulting people or for self-defense, without the authorization of state competent bodies, is sentenced to a fine or up to five years of imprisonment.
Illegally manufacturing and keeping cold weapons
Manufacturing, keeping, buying or selling hunting or sporting rifles, as well as their ammunition, without the authorization of state competent bodies, constitutes criminal contravention and is sentenced to a fine or up to two years of imprisonment.
Article 280
Illegally manufacturing and keeping hunting and sporting rifles
Article 281Breaching stipulated rules for keeping, manufacturing, using, storing, transporting and selling poisonous substances with strong effect, constitutes criminal contravention and is sentenced to a fine or up to two years of imprisonment.
Breach of rules on poisonous substances
When the criminal act has led to death, serious harm to the health of people or other serious material consequences, it is sentenced to a fine or up to ten years of imprisonment.
Article 282Breach of stipulated rules for keeping, manufacturing, use, storing, transporting and sale of explosive, firing or radioactive substances, constitutes criminal contravention and is sentenced to a fine or up to two years of imprisonment.
Breach of rules on explosive, firing or radioactive substances
When the criminal act has lead to death or has caused serious harm to the health of people or other serious material consequences have resulted, is sentenced to a fine or up to ten years of imprisonment.
Article 283Manufacturing, blending, preparing, distributing, keeping, offering for sale, selling, delivering by any means, transporting any sort of narcotic drug or psychotropic substancein breach of the law, is sentenced to a fine or from five to fifteen years of imprisonment.
Manufacturing and selling narcotics
Organizing, managing or financing this activity, is sentenced from ten to twenty years of imprisonment.
Article 284Cultivating plants or trading seeds which serve to produce narcotic plants or psychotropic substances without permission, is sentenced from three to ten years of imprisonment.
Cultivating narcotic plants
Organizing, managing or financing this activity, is sentenced from five to ten years of imprisonment.
Article 285Storing, manufacturing, transferring, delivering equipments, materials or substances used or which will be used for manufacturing narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances, is sentenced up to five years of imprisonment.
Storing equipments for manufacturing narcotics
Article 286Inducing others to use narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances or their injection without the consent of the victim, is sentenced from five to ten years of imprisonment.
Inducing the use of drugs
When the inducing or forced injection is conducted upon children or in penitentiary, educational, sport or any other institutions providing social activity, it is sentenced from ten to fifteen years of imprisonment.
Article 287Alienation, transferring, hiding, disappearing of nature, source, belonging of property originated from criminal activity, is sentenced from three to ten years of imprisonment.
Alienation of property
Producing, importing, storing or selling foods, drinks and other substances, or medicine which are dangerous or harmful to life or health, as well as introducing chemicals, materials or additive substances into the production and processing of food and drinks, when those acts have led to death or serious harm to the health of an individual, is sentenced up to ten years of imprisonment.
Article 288
Producing and selling foods and other substances dangerous to the health
When the act has caused death or serious harm to the health of more than one person, it is sentenced to no less than five years of imprisonment.
Article 289Causing death or serious harm to the health of an individual because of intentional disregard of rules related to work, production, service, provided for by laws, acts of the Council of the Ministers or in the pertinent regulations of technical safety, technical discipline, work-related protection, hygiene and fire safety by an individual designated to respect those rules and to implement them, is sentenced to a fine or up to ten years of imprisonment.
Breach of rules of work-related protection
When the criminal act has caused death or serious harm to the health of more than one person, it is sentenced to no less than five years of imprisonment.
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