Title
Prescription Periods for Penal Violations
Law
Act No. 3326
Decision Date
Dec 4, 1926
Act No. 3326 establishes prescription periods for violations penalized by special acts and municipal ordinances in the Philippines, with different time frames based on the severity of the offense, aiming to provide guidelines on when the prescription period begins and how it can be interrupted.

Questions (Act No. 3326)

It establishes the periods of prescription for violations penalized by special acts and municipal ordinances and provides when prescription begins to run.

Prescription runs after one (1) year.

Prescription runs after four (4) years.

Prescription runs after eight (8) years.

Prescription runs after twelve (12) years.

It prescribes after twenty (20) years.

They prescribe after two (2) months.

From the day of commission of the violation; if not known at the time, from discovery and the institution of judicial proceedings for investigation and punishment.

Its discovery and the institution of judicial proceedings for its investigation and punishment.

When proceedings are instituted against the guilty person.

It begins to run again if the proceedings are dismissed for reasons not constituting jeopardy.

Prescription begins to run again after the dismissal.

Acts defining and penalizing violations of law not included in the Penal Code.

Because the special act may contain a different or specific rule on prescription; Act No. 3326 applies only when the special act does not provide otherwise.

It is punishable by imprisonment for more than one month but less than two years, so prescription is after four (4) years.


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