Article 75Increasing or reducing the penalty of fine by one or more degrees
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Increasing or reducing the penalty of fine by one or more degrees.
Official text — Act No. 3815
Increasing or reducing the penalty of fine by one or more degrees.
-Whenever it may be necessary to increase or reduce the penalty of fine by one or more degrees, it shall be increased or reduced, respectively, for each degree, by one-fourth of the maximum amount prescribed by law, without, however, changing the minimum.
The same rules shall be observed with regard to fines that do not consist of a fixed amount, but are made proportional.
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