1. Crimes are subject to the following statutes of limitations:
Twenty years, when the maximum penalty prescribed for the crime is imprisonment for fifteen or more years.
Fifteen years, when the maximum penalty prescribed by law is disqualification for more than ten years, or imprisonment for more than ten and less than fifteen years.
Ten years, when the maximum penalty prescribed by law is imprisonment or disqualification for more than five years and not exceeding ten.
Five years, for all other crimes, except minor offenses and the crimes of slander and libel, which are subject to a one-year statute of limitations.
2. When the penalty prescribed by law is composite, the one requiring the longest period for prescription shall apply for the purposes of the rules contained in this article.
3. Crimes against humanity and genocide, and crimes against persons and property protected in the event of armed conflict, except those punished under Article 614, shall not be subject to any statute of limitations.
Nor shall crimes of terrorism be subject to any statute of limitations if they have resulted in the death of a person.
4. In cases of multiple offenses or related offenses, the limitation period will be that corresponding to the most serious offense.