Texas criminal code — chapter
Chapter 9: JUSTIFICATION EXCLUDING CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY
Chapter 9 of Title 2: GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY, Texas Penal Code. Statutory text on each section page is current through the legislative session it names.
Sections of Chapter 9
- Tex. Penal Code § 9.01 — Definitions
- Tex. Penal Code § 9.02 — Justification as a defense
- Tex. Penal Code § 9.03 — Confinement as justifiable force
- Tex. Penal Code § 9.04 — Threats as justifiable force
- Tex. Penal Code § 9.05 — Reckless injury of innocent third person
- Tex. Penal Code § 9.06 — Civil remedies unaffected
- Tex. Penal Code § 9.21 — Public duty
- Tex. Penal Code § 9.22 — Necessity
- Tex. Penal Code § 9.31 — Self-defense
- Tex. Penal Code § 9.32 — Deadly force in defense of person
- Tex. Penal Code § 9.33 — Defense of third person
- Tex. Penal Code § 9.34 — Protection of life or health
- Tex. Penal Code § 9.41 — Protection of one's own property
- Tex. Penal Code § 9.42 — Deadly force to protect property
- Tex. Penal Code § 9.43 — Protection of third person's property
- Tex. Penal Code § 9.44 — Use of device to protect property
- Tex. Penal Code § 9.51 — Arrest and search
- Tex. Penal Code § 9.52 — Prevention of escape from custody
- Tex. Penal Code § 9.53 — Maintaining security in correctional facility
- Tex. Penal Code § 9.54 — Limitation on use of force by drone
- Tex. Penal Code § 9.55 — Use of less-lethal force weapon
- Tex. Penal Code § 9.61 — Parent-child
- Tex. Penal Code § 9.62 — Educator-student
- Tex. Penal Code § 9.63 — Guardian-incompetent
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