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Common Examples of Hazing
● Forced physical exercise
● Embarrassing or psychological harm to individual
● Bringing physical harm to other
● Degrading or otherwise compromising the dignity of the
individual
● Activities requiring an unreasonable or inordinate amount
of the individual’s time or impair the individual’s
academic effort
● Making some an object of ridicule
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● Requiring consumption of any liquor or solid matter
● Requiring individuals to participate in any activity
which is illegal or contrary to their genuine moral and/or
religious beliefs or contrary to the educational
institutional rules and regulations
● Violating any laws, rules or regulation associated with
where the event is occurring
Common Examples of Hazing
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Republic Act 8049 or
the Anti-Hazing Law was
passed in 1995. It was passed as
an answer to the increasing
number of hazing-related
injuries and deaths. Its actual
title is “An Act Regulating
Hazing and Other Forms of
Initiation Rites in
Fraternities, Sororities, and
Other Organizations and
Providing Penalties Therefor”.
RA 8049:
Anti-
Hazing Law
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Result Penalty
Death, rape, sodomy, mutilation Reclusion Perpetua
Insane, imbecile, impotent, blind Reclusion Temporal in Maximum Period
Loss of use of speech, hearing, smell, vision, foot, arm,
leg, incapacitated to work
Reclusion Temporal in Medium Period
Deformed, lost any part of the body or use thereof,
incapacitated for more than 90 days
Reclusion Temporal in Minimum Period
Ill or incapacitated for more than 30 days Prision Mayor in Maximum Period
Ill or incapacitated for more than 10 days Prision Mayor in Medium Period
Ill or incapacitated for 1-9 days Prision Mayor in Minimum Period
Physical injuries which did not incapacitate him nor
required medical assistance
Prision Correccional in Maximum
Period
PUNISHABLE ACTS
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• If the person subjected to hazing or other forms of
initiation rites suffers any physical injury or dies as
a result thereof, the officers and members of the
fraternity, sorority or organization who actually
participated in the infliction of physical harm shall
be liable as principals.
• If the hazing is held in the home of one of the officers
or members of the fraternity, group, or organization,
the parents shall be held liable as principals when
they have actual knowledge of the hazing conducted
therein but failed to take any action to prevent the
same from occurring.
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• The officers, former officers, or alumni of the
organization, group, fraternity or sorority who
actually planned the hazing although not present when
the acts constituting the hazing were committed shall
be liable as principals.
• A fraternity or sorority's adviser who is present when
the acts constituting the hazing were committed and
failed to take action to prevent the same from
occurring shall be liable as principal.
• The presence of any person during the hazing is prima
facie evidence of participation therein as principal
unless he prevented the commission of the acts
punishable herein.
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• The owner of the place where hazing is conducted shall
be liable as an accomplice, when he has actual
knowledge of the hazing conducted therein but failed
to take any action to prevent the same from occurring.
• The school authorities including faculty members who
consent to the hazing or who have actual knowledge
thereof, but failed to take any action to prevent the
same from occurring shall be punished as accomplices
for the acts of hazing committed by the perpetrators.
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• These sections shall apply to the president, manager,
director or other responsible officer of a corporation
engaged in hazing as a requirement for employment in
the manner provided herein.
