Article 119. Abandoning an Endangered Person

1. The abandonment of a person without help, the guilty party being aware of this fact, in a state which is dangerous for life or health, if that person has no possibility to take measures of self-preservation due to minor age, old age, disease, or due to another helpless state, in cases in which a guilty party had an opportunity to have rendered assistance to that person, and was obliged to take care of that person, or in cases in which the guilty person himself put that person into a state which was dangerous for health or life, - shall be punished by a fine in an amount from fifty up to one hundred monthly assessment indices, or in an amount of wages or other income of a given convict for a period up to two months, or by engagement in public works for a period from one hundred twenty up to one hundred eighty hours, or by correctional labour for a period up to one year, or detention under arrest for a period up to three months.

2. The same act which, due to negligence, entailed the death of a person abandoned without help, or other grave consequences, - shall be punished by a fine in an amount from five hundred up to one thousand monthly assessment indices, or in an amount of wages or other income of a given convict for a period from five to ten months, or by detention under arrest for a period up to six months, or by deprivation of freedom for a period up to three years.