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Finally, boating homicide is law. As we anticipated in our article that came out in February this year, the new law is published in Official Gazette No. 237, and will come into effect on Oct. 25, 2023. Up to 18 years of imprisonment is at stake.
The bill(DDL No. 340) presented on the initiative of Senator Alberto Balboni, was debated and approved, becomes “LAW Sept. 26, 2023 , no. 138 Introduction of the crime of nautical homicide and the crime of nautical personal injury”
Therefore, Art 589-bis is updated, the incipit of which is:
Whoever culpably causes the death of a person with violation of the regulations on the regulation of traffic road traffic or maritime or inland navigation shall be punished With imprisonment from two to seven years.
Boating homicide includes certain penalty aggravations related to driving while in
state of intoxication alco
lic or psycho-f
isic conse
guiding
to the intake of drugs
acent or psi
cotrope. Here, then, is an extreme summary of the penalties involved:
The law also provides specific penalties for culpable injury, in summary:
The full text of the law is available in Gazette 237-2023
Luigi Gallerani
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