- Section 247 of Penal Code CAP 63: Exhibition of false light, mark or buoy
Any person who exhibits any false light, mark or buoy, intending or knowing it to be likely that the exhibition will mislead any navigator, is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
- Section 248 of Penal Code CAP 63: Conveying person by water for hire in unsafe or overloaded vessel
Any person who knowingly or negligently conveys, or causes to be conveyed for hire, any person by water in any vessel, when that vessel is in such a state or so loaded as to be unsafe, is guilty of a misdemeanour.
- Section 249 of Penal Code CAP 63: Danger or obstruction in public way or line of navigation
Any person who by doing any act, or by omitting to take reasonable care with any property in his possession or under his charge, causes danger, obstruction or injury to any person in any public way or public line of navigation, is liable to a fine.
- Section 250 of Penal Code CAP 63: Common assault
Any person who unlawfully assaults another is guilty of a misdemeanour and, if the assault is not committed in circumstances for which a greater punishment is provided in this Code, is liable to imprisonment for one year.
- Section 251 of Penal Code CAP 63: Assault causing actual bodily harm
Any person who commits an assault occasioning actual bodily harm is guilty of a misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for five years.
- Section 252 of Penal Code CAP 63: Assault on persons protecting wreck
Any person who assaults and strikes or wounds any magistrate, officer or other person lawfully authorized in or on account of the execution of his duty in or concerning the preservation of any vessel in distress, or of any vessel or goods or effects wrecked, stranded or cast on shore, or lying under...
- Section 253 of Penal Code CAP 63: Other assaults
Any person who—
(a) assaults any person with intent to commit a felony or to resist or
prevent the lawful apprehension or detainer of himself or of any other person for any offence; or
(b) assaults, resists or wilfully obstructs any police officer in the due execution of his duty, or any...
- Section 254 of Penal Code CAP 63: Definition of kidnapping from Kenya
Any person who conveys any person beyond the limits of Kenya without the consent of that person, or of some person legally authorized to consent on behalf of that person, is said to kidnap that person from Kenya.
- Section 255 of Penal Code CAP 63: Definition of kidnapping from lawful guardianship
Any person who takes or entices any minor under fourteen years of age if a male, or under sixteen years of age if a female, or any person of unsound mind, out of the keeping of a lawful guardian of the minor or person of unsound mind, without the consent of the guardian, is said to kidnap the minor...
- Section 256 of Penal Code CAP 63: Definition of abduction
Any person who by force compels, or by any deceitful means induces, any person to go from any place is said to abduct that person.
- Section 257 of Penal Code CAP 63: Punishment for kidnapping
Any person who kidnaps any person from Kenya or from lawful guardianship is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
- Section 258 of Penal Code CAP 63: Kidnapping or abducting in order to murder
Any person who kidnaps or abducts any person in order that the person may be murdered, or may be so disposed of as to be put in danger of being murdered, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for ten years.
- Section 259 of Penal Code CAP 63: Kidnapping or abducting with intent to confine
Any person who kidnaps or abducts any person with intent to cause that person to be secretly and wrongfully confined is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
- Section 260 of Penal Code CAP 63: Kidnapping or abducting in order to subject to grievous harm, slavery, etc.
Any person who kidnaps or abducts any person in order that the person may be subjected, or may be so disposed of as to be put in danger of being subjected to grievous harm, or knowing it to be likely that such person will be so subjected or disposed of, is guilty of a felony and is liable to...
- Section 261 of Penal Code CAP 63: Wrongfully concealing or keeping in confinement kidnapped or abducted person
Any person who, knowing that any person has been kidnapped or has been abducted, wrongfully conceals or confines such person is guilty of a felony and shall be punished in the same manner as if he had kidnapped or abducted such person with the same intention or knowledge, or for the same purpose, as...
- Section 262 of Penal Code CAP 63: Kidnapping or abducting child under fourteen years with intent to steal from its person
Any person who kidnaps or abducts any child under the age of fourteen years with the intention of taking dishonestly any movable property from the person of such child is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
- Section 263 of Penal Code CAP 63: Punishment for wrongful confinement
Whoever wrongfully confines any person is guilty of a misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for one year or to a fine of fourteen thousand shillings.
- Section 266 of Penal Code CAP 63: Unlawful compulsory labour
Any person who unlawfully compels any person to labour against the will of that person is guilty of a misdemeanour.
- Section 266A of Penal Code CAP 63: Offences Under Part
Where it appears that any of the offences specified under this Part is committed for the purpose of exploitation, the person committing the offence shall be charged with the appropriate offence as specified in the Counter Trafficking in Persons Act.
- Section 267 of Penal Code CAP 63: Things capable of being stolen
(1) Every inanimate thing whatever which is the property of any person, and which is movable, is capable of being stolen.
(2) Every inanimate thing which is the property of any person, and which is capable of being made movable, is capable of being stolen as soon as it becomes movable, although it...
- Section 268 of Penal Code CAP 63: Definition of stealing
(1) A person who fraudulently and without claim of right takes anything capable of being stolen, or fraudulently converts to the use of any person, other than the general or special owner thereof, any property, is said to steal that thing or property.
(2) A person who takes anything capable of...
- Section 269 of Penal Code CAP 63: Special cases
(1) When a factor or agent pledges or gives a lien on any goods or document of title to goods entrusted to him for the purpose of sale or otherwise for any sum of money not greater than the amount due to him from his principal at the time of pledging or giving the lien, together with the amount of...
- Section 270 of Penal Code CAP 63: Funds, etc., held under direction
When a person receives, either alone or jointly with another person, any money or valuable security or a power of attorney for the sale, mortgage, pledge or other disposition of any property, whether capable of being stolen or not, with a direction in either case that such money or any part thereof,...
- Section 271 of Penal Code CAP 63: Funds, etc., received by agents for sale
When a person receives, either alone or jointly with another person, any property from another on terms authorizing or requiring him to sell it or otherwise dispose of it, and requiring him to pay or account for the proceeds of the property, or any part of such proceeds, or to deliver anything...
- Section 272 of Penal Code CAP 63: Money received for another
When a person receives, either alone or jointly with another person, any money on behalf of another, the money is deemed to be the property of the person on whose behalf it is received, unless the money is received on the terms that it shall form an item in a debtor and creditor account, and that...
- Section 273 of Penal Code CAP 63: Theft by person having an interest in the thing stolen
When any person takes or converts anything capable of being stolen, under such circumstances as would otherwise amount to theft, it is immaterial that he himself has a special property or interest therein, or that he himself is the owner of the thing taken or converted subject to some special...
- Section 274 of Penal Code CAP 63: Husband and wife
A person who, while a man and his wife are living together, procures either of them to deal with anything which is, to his knowledge, the property of the other in a manner which would be theft if they were not married, is deemed to have stolen the thing, and may be charged with theft.
- Section 275 of Penal Code CAP 63: General punishment for theft
Any person who steals anything capable of being stolen is guilty of the felony termed theft and is liable, unless owing to the circumstances of the theft or the nature of the thing stolen some other punishment is provided, to imprisonment for three years.
- Section 276 of Penal Code CAP 63: Stealing wills
If the thing stolen is a testamentary instrument, whether the testator is living or dead, the offender is liable to imprisonment for ten years.
- Section 277 of Penal Code CAP 63: Stealing postal matter, etc.
If the thing stolen is postal matter or any chattel, money or valuable security contained in any postal matter, the offender is liable to imprisonment for ten years.