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Article 304Possession of picklocks or similar tools

Act No. 3815 · Revised Penal CodeKey provision

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Possession of picklocks or similar tools.

Official text — Act No. 3815

Possession of picklocks or similar tools.

-Any person who shall without lawful cause have in his possession picklocks or similar tools specially adapted to the commission of the crime of robbery, shall be punished by arresto mayor in its maximum period to prision correccional in its minimum period.

The same penalty shall be imposed upon any person who shall make such tools. If the offender be a locksmith, he shall suffer the penalty of prision correccional in its medium and maximum periods.

Source: lawphil.net (Act No. 3815 as amended)

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