- to an imprisonment of one to three years if the felony is punishable by a temporary custodial
sentence;
On top of the sentence pronounced, a fine which may not exceed 1,000,000 francs may be
ordered.
2° in matters of misdemeanor:
- to a custodial sentence lower than the legal minimum and to a fine if the offence is punishable
by a custodial sentence and a fine; the custodial sentence may be reduced to one day;
- to the penalty of deprivation of liberty provided for in the preceding paragraph or to a fine not
exceeding 1,000,000 francs if the offence is punishable only by deprivation of liberty;
- to a fine of less than the legal minimum if the offence is punishable by a fine only or if it is
punishable either by a fine or by a custodial sentence and the judge orders only the fine.
3° in the case of a petty offence, to a fine of less than the legal minimum, excluding any
custodial sentence.
Article 116: In matters of military offenses and as an exception to article 118, a fine cannot be
substituted for military detention.
TITLE V: MULTIPLE OFFENSES
CHAPTER 1: OFFENSES COMBINATION
Article 117: No one shall be punished twice for the same act.
Article118: When the same act is likely to have several qualifications and when the offences
committed have distinct constitutive elements, this act can be submitted to the judge under its
different qualifications but can only give rise to a single prosecution.
Only the penalties and security measures incurred for the most serious of the offenses for which
the prosecution was brought and which the judge chose shall be imposed.
Article 119: When several offenses, qualified as felonies or misdemeanors, have been committed
by the same person without him or her being a recidivist and are the subject of the same
prosecution, the penalties for each of these offenses shall not be cumulative.
Only the penalties and security measures incurred for the offence subject to the most severe
principal penalties may be pronounced.
The principal penalties pronounced in application of the preceding paragraph are deemed to
apply indivisibly to all the offences established insofar as they could have been pronounced for
each of them.
When the offences are prosecuted more than once, the judge hearing the second prosecution may
order that the principal penalties be combined. In this case, only the principal penalties
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