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 : battery, not resulting in a disturbance of health (Article 112, second part); the spreading, in a collective, of false rumors defaming a member of the collective (Article 130, first part); contumely (Article 131);
 * 2) any other act with respect to which, pursuant to an article in the Special Part of the present Code, the application of measures of social action is permitted;
 * 3) any other minor felony if, by reason of the character of the act committed and the character of the guilty party, he can be reformed without the application of punishment, employing measures of social action.

'''Article 52. Exemption from criminal liability and transferring the guilty party to the custody of guarantors.'''

If by reason of the circumstances of the case the crime which has been committed by the person in question, and the person himself, do not represent a great social danger, and if the act of the guilty party did not result in serious consequences and he himself has evidenced sincere contrition, such person may, at the request of a social organization or collective of workers, be exempted from criminal liability and punishment and released on surety for reeducation and reformation on to the social organization or collective of workers which filed the petition.

A person previously convicted of a premeditated crime, or a person previously released on surety, shall not be released on surety.

In like manner, a person who does not acknowledge his guilt, or who for some other reasons insists that his case be tried, shall not be released on surety.

If a person who has been released on surety, in the course of one year, has not justified the trust of the collective, has violated his promise to demonstrate his reformation by exemplary behavior and honest labor, has failed to respect the norms of socialist communal living, or has left the labor collective in order to avoid social action, the social organization or workers’ collective which provided surety for him shall issue a decision refusing surety and shall transmit such decision to a prosecutor or court for consideration of the question of the criminal prosecution of the guilty party for the crime with respect to whose commission he was released on surety.

'''Article 53. Conditional pre-term release from punishment, and the substitution of a less severe sentence.'''

If a person sentenced to deprivation of freedom, corrective labor,