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9 General Provisions and Penalty 501.08 <br />(b) When the section defining an offense does not specify any degree of culpability, <br />and plainly indicates a purpose to impose strict criminal liability for the conduct described <br />in such section, then culpability is not required for a person to be guilty of the offense. <br />When the section neither specifies culpability nor plainly indicates a purpose to impose <br />strict liability, recklessness is sufficient culpability to commit the offense. <br />(c) As used in this section: <br />(1) Possession is a voluntary act if the possessor knowingly procured or received <br />the thing possessed, or was aware of his control thereof for a sufficient <br />time to have ended his possession. <br />(2) .Reflexes, convulsions, body movements during unconsciousness or sleep, <br />and body, movements that are not otherwise a product of the actor's volition, <br />are involuntary acts. <br />(3) "Culpability" means purpose, knowledge, recklessness or negligence, as <br />defined in Section 501.08. <br />(ORC 2901.21) <br />501.08 CULPABLE MENTAL STATES. <br />(a) A person acts purposely when it is his specific intention to cause a certain result, <br />or when the gist of the offense is a prohibition against conduct.of acertain nature, regard- <br />less of what the offender intends to accomplish thereby, it is his specific intention to <br />engage in conduct of that nature. <br />(b) A person acts knowingly, regardless of his purpose, when he is aware that his <br />conduct will probably cause a certain result or will probably be of a certain nature. A <br />person has knowledge of circumstances when he is aware that such circumstances probably <br />exist. <br />(c) A person acts recklessly when, with heedless indifference to the consequences, <br />he perversely disregards a known risk that his conduct is likely to cause a certain result <br />or is likely to be of a certain nature. A person is reckless with respect to circumstances <br />when, with heedless indifference to the consequences, he perversely disregards a known <br />risk that such circumstances are likely to exist. <br />(d) A person acts negligently when, because of a substantial lapse from due care, he <br />fails to perceive or avoid a risk that his conduct may cause a certain result or may be of <br />a certain nature. A person is negligent with respect to circumstances when, because of <br />a substantial lapse from due care, he fails to perceive or avoid a risk that such circum- <br />stances may exist. <br />1993 Replacement <br />