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SECTION 15.00
Culpability; definitions of terms
Penal (PEN) CHAPTER 40, PART 1, TITLE B, ARTICLE 15
§ 15.00 Culpability; definitions of terms.

The following definitions are applicable to this chapter:

1. "Act" means a bodily movement.

2. "Voluntary act" means a bodily movement performed consciously as a
result of effort or determination, and includes the possession of
property if the actor was aware of his physical possession or control
thereof for a sufficient period to have been able to terminate it.

3. "Omission" means a failure to perform an act as to which a duty of
performance is imposed by law.

4. "Conduct" means an act or omission and its accompanying mental
state.

5. "To act" means either to perform an act or to omit to perform an
act.

6. "Culpable mental state" means "intentionally" or "knowingly" or
"recklessly" or with "criminal negligence," as these terms are defined
in section 15.05.