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    Culpability; definitions of culpable mental states
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    SECTION 15.10

    Requirements for criminal liability in general and for offenses of strict liability and mental culpability

    Penal (PEN) CHAPTER 40, PART 1, TITLE B, ARTICLE 15

    § 15.10 Requirements for criminal liability in general and for offenses

    of strict liability and mental culpability.

    The minimal requirement for criminal liability is the performance by a
    person of conduct which includes a voluntary act or the omission to
    perform an act which he is physically capable of performing. If such
    conduct is all that is required for commission of a particular offense,
    or if an offense or some material element thereof does not require a
    culpable mental state on the part of the actor, such offense is one of
    "strict liability." If a culpable mental state on the part of the actor
    is required with respect to every material element of an offense, such
    offense is one of "mental culpability."