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4. Criminal responsibility
 
  Article 35-Limitation on felony indictments  
35.1 Limitation on felony indictments  
  Felony indictments may be presented within these limits, and not afterward:  
  (1) no limitation  
  a) all offences involving homicide of a human being;
b) all offences involving sexual assault, if during the investigation of the offense biological matter is collected and subjected to forensic DNA testing and the testing results show that the matter does not match the victim or any other person whose identity is readily ascertained;
c) any offense involving sexual assault of a person under the age of 14 yrs, regardless of existence of DNA evidence;
d) any offense involving leaving the scene of an accident if the accident resulted in the death of a person;
e) all offences against public justice involving fugitives from justice and all outstanding matters concerning charges/sentences with those fugitives;
f) all offences against the state and instruments of the state		  
  (2) fourteen years from the date of the commission of the offense:  
  a) all offences against a human being not involving sexual offences or homicide ;
b) all offences against public health and safety not involving homicide;
c) all offences against public security and public order except homicide and conspiracy to commit homicide;
d) all sexual offences, except where medical evidence has been collected at or around the immediate time of the offence, or sexual assult of a person under 14 yrs;
e) all other property related offences. 		 
  (3) seven years from the date of the commission of the offense:  
  a) all offences against animals, or non-carbon higher order life;
b) all offences against the family not involving sexual contact or grievous harm/death;
c) all offences against public decency and morals not involving sexual contact or grievous harm/death;
d) all offences against trade and financial instruments;
  
     
     
     
     
     
 
 

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