§ 19.42. Sentence with cumulative requirements.

 (e)  Use of device to protect property.—The justification afforded by this section extends to the use of a device for the purpose of protecting property only if:

   (1)  the device is not designed to cause or known to create a substantial risk of causing death or serious bodily injury;

   (2)  the use of the particular device to protect the property from entry or trespass is reasonable under the circumstances, as the actor believes them to be; and

   (3)  the device is one customarily used for such a purpose or reasonable care is taken to make known to probable intruders the fact that it is used.

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