How to Use penal code in a Sentence

penal code

noun
  • The next day, he was charged with Section 505(A) of the penal code.
    Victoria Milko and Kristen Gelineau, USA TODAY, 8 May 2021
  • House Bill 4142 amends the state's penal code to reflect the change.
    Detroit Free Press, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Crimes of the heart and soul were omnipresent, whether or not the penal code came into play.
    Tom Nolan, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The lawmaker doesn’t want to add his bans on workable guns and live ammo to the penal code.
    George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2021
  • The proposed penal code, if passed, would usher in a raft of sweeping new laws.
    Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 25 Sep. 2019
  • If found guilty, Bazoum could face the death penalty, according to Niger’s penal code.
    Time, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Two amendments to the country’s penal code have been proposed.
    Cristina Maza, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2018
  • The charge is always the same, a violation of Paragraph 175 of the German penal code.
    Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The penal code is based on the Italian criminal code with elements of canon law.
    Nicole Winfield, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2019
  • One of the items seized from the storage unit, Carrillo said, was a copy of California’s penal code.
    Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Under Iran’s penal code, the sentence carries the death penalty.
    Nima Elbagir, CNN, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The state’s penal code recognizes a fetus as a person, but the Texas Transportation Code does not.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 11 July 2022
  • While the state’s penal code recognizes a fetus as a person, the Texas Transportation Code does not.
    Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 9 July 2022
  • While the state's penal code recognizes a fetus as a person, the Texas Transportation Code does not.
    Timothy Bella, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2022
  • The real sticky wicket in the Texas penal code, though, is not the bribery section but the one about abuse of official capacity.
    Dallas News, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Civil-rights groups supporting Gamble say the U.S. penal code has grown too vast.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2018
  • Patterson argued his bill drew from terms in the penal code and hammered out in a previous Supreme Court case.
    Talia Richman, Dallas News, 22 Mar. 2023
  • New signs listing the hours when the station is closed to the public and the relevant state penal code are posted around the site, including on a pole near the wooded slope.
    Hillary Davis, Daily Pilot, 19 Sep. 2019
  • The Texas penal code recognizes an unborn child as a person, but the state's transportation code doesn't.
    Christopher Brito, CBS News, 11 July 2022
  • The case sparked weeks of outrage in the North African kingdom, with many speaking out in defense of press freedoms and others asking for reforms to the penal code.
    Aida Alami, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2019
  • But the new laws were largely based on India’s penal code, drafted by British colonialists more than 200 years ago.
    Michelle Jana Chan, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2022
  • In 1973, the law was transferred from the Texas penal code to the state’s civil statutes and deemed unenforceable after Roe was decided.
    Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 27 June 2022
  • A week ago Jansen said arrests would be under a state penal code section banning obscene matter in the state.
    Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Nov. 2020
  • The other charge is under the penal code and is usually referred to as treason or sedition.
    Grant Peck, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2021
  • It should be noted that the California penal code does cover all these things.
    Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2022
  • But in the late 1990s, El Salvador revised its Constitution and penal code.
    Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2021
  • Jewell is depicted as an eager-to-please mailroom clerk in Bryant's law office who reads dry penal codes in his free time.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Egypt’s penal code is sorely in need of amendments to better protect rape and assault survivors.
    Washington Post, 31 July 2020
  • Because Gugino is older than 65 and the two officers are more than 10 years younger, the crime is a felony, according to New York's penal code.
    Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 9 June 2020
  • More signs listing the specific hours of closure and the relevant state penal code are to come, Carpenter said.
    Hillary Davis, Daily Pilot, 11 Sep. 2019

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