Puerto Rico · Código Penal de Puerto Rico 2012 (Ley 146-2012)
Cód. Penal PR § 177: Amenazas
What this law says, in plain English
This statute prohibits threatening persons with harm to their person, family, body, rights, honor, or property. Threatening to commit a crime that causes evacuation of buildings or public transport carries a fixed 3-year prison sentence.
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