General Part
Section 2.
Crime.
Chapter 4.
Persons subject to criminal liability.
Article 27. Criminal liability of persons who committed crime in the state of intoxication.
1. The person who committed a crime as a result of alcoholic, narcotic or other intoxication is not exempted from criminal liability.
2. When sentencing an alcoholic, a drug or poison addict, the court can also impose forced medical treatment, provided there is danger of the committal of a new crime due to this addiction.
Article 27. Criminal Liability of a Person Who Has Committed an Act Prohibited by Threat of Punishment as Provided for by Criminal Code in Not Sober (Drunk) State as a Result of Alcohol Intoxication, Narcotic Drugs, Psychoactive (Psychotropic) Substances, Toxic and Other Narcotic Substances, Their Compounds or Equivalent Materials (Analogue)
1. A person who has committed a criminal offence in not sober (drunk) state as a result of alcohol intoxication, narcotic drug, psychoactive (psychotropic) substances, toxic and other narcotic substance, their compounds or equivalent materials (analogue), shall be subject to criminal liability.
2. The not sober (drunk) state that has been caused through physical or mental coercion, deception, as well as against the will or by ignoring the will of the person, shall be a circumstance mitigating the criminal liability and punishment of the person committed criminal offence. If the person, whose not sober (drunk) state has been caused through the same ways, and he/she was deprived of the ability to realise the illegal nature of his/her act or control it, he/she shall not be subject to criminal liability.
3. The not sober (drunk)state is considered the not sober state as established by the Administrative Violations Code of the Republic of Armenia.
1. In addition to other grounds for excluding criminal responsibility provided for in this Statute, a person shall not be criminally responsible if, at the time of that person's conduct:
(b) The person is in a state of intoxication that destroys that person's capacity to appreciate the unlawfulness or nature of his or her conduct, or capacity to control his or her conduct to conform to the requirements of law, unless the person has become voluntarily intoxicated under such circumstances that the person knew, or disregarded the risk, that, as a result of the intoxication, he or she was likely to engage in conduct constituting a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court;