Misdemeanor Liability of Legal Entities
Abstract: According to the provisions of the newest Law on Misdemeanors of the Republic of Srpska, for misdemeanor offence the following categories of rights holders can be held responsible: physical body, (independent) entrepreneur/contractor, legal body, responsible person within the legal body and responsible person within the state authority, republic authority and local self-government authority units. Against the listed offenders different misdemeanor offence sanctions can be applied (under Article 36 of the mentioned Law), thus, the legal body, under legally provided conditions, can be sanctioned for misdemeanor offence as follows: monetary fine, measure of warning, protective measures involving object confiscation and prohibition to perform a business activity, along with non-penal measures involving property gains seizure and damage recovery. Liability of legal bodies for misdemeanors perpetrated, in the same way as it is foreseen in criminal justice, is based on so-called, objective liability, that is, the fact that a misdemeanor was caused and causal relations between the misdemeanor action and consequence of that action. Liability of legal persons for perpetrated misdemeanor are elaborated in this paper.
Key words: legal entity, misdemeanor, law on misdemeanor liability, misdemeanor sanctions.
Odgovornost pravnih lica za prekršaj
Rezime: Prema odredbama najnovijeg Zakona o prekršajima Republike Srpske, za izvršeno prekršajno djelo mogu da odgovaraju sljedeće kategorije subjekata prava, i to: fizičko lice, (samostalni) preduzetnik, pravno lice, odgovorno lice u pravnom licu i odgovorno lice u državnom organu, republičkom organu uprave i organima jedinice lokalne samouprave. Prema pobrojanim učiniocima prekršaja primjenjuju se i različite prekršajne sankcije (iz člana 36 navedenog zakona), te shodno tome, pravnom licu mogu se, pod zakonom propisanim uslovima, izricati sljedeće prekršajne sankcije: novčana kazna, mjere upozorenja, zaštitne mjere oduzimanja predmeta i zabrane vršenja djelatnosti, te nepenalne mjere oduzimanja imovinske koristi i naknade štete. Odgovornost pravnih lica za počinjeni prekršaj, na isti način kako je to predviđeno i u krivičnom zakonodavstvu, temelji se na tzv. objektivnoj odgovornosti, odnosno činjenici prouzrokovanja prekršaja i uzročnoj vezi između preduzete radnje prekršaja i ostvarene posljedice prekršaja. Upravo o odgovornosti pravnih lica za prekršaj biće riječi u ovom referatu.
Ključne riječi: pravno lice, prekršaj, zakon, odgovornost za prekršaj, prekršajne sankcije.