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Montana · Through Montana Code Annotated 2025

45-2-202: Voluntary act.

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  1. TITLE 45. CRIMES
  2. CHAPTER 2. GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF LIABILITY
  3. Part 2. Other Factors Affecting Individual Liability

A material element of every offense is a voluntary act, which includes an omission to perform a duty that the law imposes on the offender and that the offender is physically capable of performing, except for deliberate homicide under 45-5-102(1)(b) for which there must be a voluntary act only as to the underlying felony. Possession is a voluntary act if the offender knowingly procured or received the thing possessed or was aware of the offender's control of the thing for a sufficient time to have been able to terminate control.

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