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Chapter 9
Justification Excluding Criminal Responsibility

Sections

9.01
Definitions
9.02
Justification as a Defense
9.03
Confinement as Justifiable Force
9.04
Threats as Justifiable Force
9.05
Reckless Injury of Innocent Third Person
9.06
Civil Remedies Unaffected
9.21
Public Duty
9.22
Necessity
9.31
Self-defense
9.32
Deadly Force in Defense of Person
9.33
Defense of Third Person
9.34
Protection of Life or Health
9.41
Protection of One's Own Property
9.42
Deadly Force to Protect Property
9.43
Protection of Third Person's Property
9.44
Use of Device to Protect Property
9.51
Arrest and Search
9.52
Prevention of Escape from Custody
9.53
Maintaining Security in Correctional Facility
9.54
Limitation on Use of Force by Drone
9.61
Parent-child
9.62
Educator-student
9.63
Guardian-incompetent
 



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Location: https://texas.public.law/statutes/tex._penal_code_title_2_chapter_9

Blank Outline Levels

The legislature occasionally skips outline levels. For example:

(3) A person may apply [...]
(4)(a) A person petitioning for relief [...]

In this example, (3), (4), and (4)(a) are all outline levels, but (4) was omitted its authors. It's only implied. This presents an interesting challenge when laying out the text. We've decided to display a blank section with this note, in order to aide readability.

Trust but verify. Here is the original source for chapter 9

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