Considered to be principals are:\n(a) Whoever participates directly in the commission of a crime.\n(b) Whoever forces, provokes, abets or induces another person to commit a crime.\n(c) Whoever takes advantage of a legally non-imputable person to commit a crime.\n(d) Whoever cooperates before, simultaneously or after the commission of a crime, and without whose participation the crime could not have been perpetrated.\n(e) Whoever takes advantage of a juridical person to commit a crime.\n(f) Whoever acts in representation of another as member, director, agent or owner of a juridical person, and perpetrates the criminal act, even if the special elements that give rise to the crime do not concur upon such a person, but do concur upon the person represented or upon the juridical person provided that there is a law that classifies the crime.\nHistory —June 18, 2004, No. 149, § 43, eff. May 1, 2005.
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