Title
Amendment on arson penalties
Law
Republic Act No. 5467
Decision Date
May 12, 1969
Republic Act No. 5467 amends the Revised Penal Code to specify punishments for different forms of arson, including setting fire to occupied buildings, public buildings, and properties for fraudulent purposes, with death penalty imposed if death results; it also provides prima facie evidence of arson and imposes penalties for planting evidence.

Q&A (Republic Act No. 5467)

The penalty is reclusion temporal to reclusion perpetua.

If the building burned is a public building and the value of the damage caused exceeds 6,000 pesos, or if the purpose is to destroy evidence kept therein to be used in prosecution or in legislative, judicial, or administrative proceedings, irrespective of the amount of the damage.

The penalty is reclusion temporal to reclusion perpetua.

The penalty is reclusion temporal.

The penalty is prision mayor.

The penalty is prision correccional in its medium period to prision mayor in its minimum period.

If the arson is committed to defraud or cause damage to another, or if prejudice has actually been caused, or if the burned property is a building in an inhabited place, the offender shall be punished by arresto mayor in its maximum period to prision correccional in its minimum period.

The death penalty shall be imposed.

Prima facie evidence of arson includes finding materials soaked in gasoline or other inflammables, mechanical or chemical devices designed to start fire, large amounts of inflammable materials stored unnecessarily, or fire started simultaneously in multiple parts of the building or locale under suspicious circumstances, together with either high insurance coverage (over 80%) or fraudulent insurance claims after the fire.

The penalty of prision correccional shall be imposed.


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