Penalty standards for picking quarrels and provoking trouble

Administrative penalty standards for picking quarrels and provoking troubles are as follows: detention for not less than five days but not more than ten days, and may also be fined not more than five hundred yuan; if the circumstances are more serious, detention for not less than ten days but not more than fifteen days, and may also be fined A fine of not more than one thousand yuan. Those who engage in the following behaviors are considered to be picking quarrels and provoking troubles: fighting in groups; chasing and intercepting others; taking things by force or arbitrarily damaging or occupying public or private property; other acts of picking quarrels and provoking troubles.

Legal Basis

Article 26 of the "Public Security Administration Punishment Law of the People's Republic of China"

Whoever commits any of the following acts shall be punished with a five-year fine Detention for not less than 10 days but not more than 10 days, and a fine of not more than 500 yuan may be imposed;

If the circumstances are serious, detention is not less than 10 days but not more than 15 days, and a fine of not more than 1,000 yuan may be imposed:

(1) Fighting in groups;

(2) Chasing or intercepting others;

(3) Taking forcibly or arbitrarily damaging or occupying public or private property;

(4) Other acts of provoking quarrels and provoking trouble.

The legal interest infringed upon by the crime of picking quarrels and provoking trouble is public order. Those who beat others at will and the circumstances are egregious, or make trouble in public places and cause serious disorder in public places shall be punished. bear corresponding criminal liability.

Article 293 of the "Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China"

Whoever commits one of the following acts of provocation and disturbing social order shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years , criminal detention or control:

(1) Beating others at will, with serious circumstances;

(2) Chasing, intercepting, insulting, and intimidating others, with serious circumstances;

(3) Forcibly taking or arbitrarily damaging or occupying public or private property, the circumstances are serious;

(4) Making trouble in public places, causing serious disorder in public places of.

Whoever gathers others to commit the acts mentioned in the preceding paragraph multiple times and seriously disrupts social order shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years, and may also be fined.