Article 240.- Breaching regulations on fire prevention and fighting 1. Those who violate the regulations on fire prevention and fighting, causing the loss of lives or serious damage to the health and/or property of other persons shall be sentenced to non-custodial reform for up to three years or to between six months and five years of imprisonment. 2. Committing the crime and causing very serious consequences, the offenders shall be sentenced to between three and eight years of imprisonment. 3. Committing the crime and causing particularly serious consequences, the offenders shall be sentenced to between seven and twelve years of imprisonment. 4. Committing the crime in cases where particularly serious consequences may actually occur if not warded off in time, the offenders shall be sentenced to warning, non-custodial reform for up to two years or between three months and two years of imprisonment. 5. The offenders may also be subject to a fine of between five million dong and fifty million dong, a ban from holding certain posts, practicing certain occupations or doing certain jobs for one to five years. Article 241.- Breaching the regulations on safety in operating electricity works 1. Those who commit one of the following acts causing serious consequences or have been disciplined or administratively sanctioned for such act but continue to commit it shall be sentenced to non-custodial reform for up to three years or to between six months and three years of imprisonment: a) Permitting the construction of or constructing without permission, houses and works within electricity work safety corridors; b) Causing explosion, fires, burning forests for milpa building, felling trees, affecting the operative safety of electricity works; c) Digging holes, driving stakes and/or building houses on corridors designed to protect underground electric cables; d) Anchoring ships and/or boats in the corridors designed to protect of electric cables in riverbeds or sea beds, which have been warned off with notices or signboards. 2. Committing the crime and causing very serious consequences, the offenders shall be sentenced to between two and seven years of imprisonment. 3. Committing the crime and causing particularly serious consequences, the offenders shall be sentenced to between five and ten years of imprisonment.