That condition of the human organism that consists of its health and disease status and risk potential. - ANSWER-Wellness
According to the Occupations
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According to Commission Rules, if a licensee's name is changed for any reason, such as marriage, divorce, or other court action, it must be reported to the Commission within _____ days - ANSWER-30 days
According to Commission Rules, if a current license holder is arrested for any offense above a Class C misdemeanor, the license holder shall report the facts of the arrest to the Commission in writing within - ANSWER-30 days
According to Commission Rules, the license of any licensee who does not meet the legislatively required continuing education by the expiration date will - ANSWER-Expire
Which of the following is an advantage of having the professional model for law enforcement? - ANSWER-More effective problem solving techniques
The expression or use of facts without distortion by personal feelings or prejudices is the definition of - ANSWER-Objectivity
Investigations relating to the deprivation of civil rights under color of law are usually conducted by the - ANSWER-Federal Bureau of Investigation
According to the Penal Code, a public servant acting under color of office or employment commits the offense of Official Oppression if the public servant - ANSWER-Intentionally subjects another to sexual harassment lly sub
The Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution - ANSWER-Gives the right to trial, open to the public
Cruel and unusual punishment are prohibited by which amendment? - ANSWER-8th
According to the _____ Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, powers not specifically reserved to the federal government are reserved to the state government. - ANSWER-10th
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, a _____ is an order issued by a judge directed to anyone having a person in their custody, commanding them to produce such person and show why they are in custody - ANSWER-Writ of habeas corpus
Which court case affirmed a person's right to free speech? - ANSWER-Dural V. City of Douglas
The 5th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives citizens the protection from_____. - ANSWER-Self-Incrimination
The _____ Amendment limits the level of force that may be used to reasonable force. - ANSWER-4th
The primary components of the American Criminal Justice System are _____. - ANSWER-Police, courts, and correctional
_____ is law that defines the personal and property rights of individuals. - ANSWER-Civil Law
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, which of the following is NOT a magistrate? - ANSWER-District Attorneys
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, which of the following are NOT Texas peace officers? - ANSWER-Special agents of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, the Court of Criminal Appeals does NOT _____. - ANSWER-Review decisions of civil cases
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, the ______ courts shall have original jurisdiction of all misdemeanors of which exclusive original jurisdiction is not given to the justice court, and when the fine to be imposed shall exceed five hundred dollars. - ANSWER-County
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, a peace officer who investigates a family violence allegation or who responds to a disturbance call that may involve family violence shall advise any possible adult victim of all reasonable means to prevent further family violence, including _____. - ANSWER-Giving written notice of a victim's legal rights
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, which of the following is NOT a use of force option for dispersing a riot? - ANSWER-Use any defree of force
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, an affidavit made before a magistrate charging the commission of an offense is called a/an_____. - ANSWER-Complaint
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, the security given by the accused that he will appear and answer before the proper court the accusation brought against him is known as _____. - ANSWER-Bail
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, a written statement of a grand jury accusing a person of an offense is a/an _____. - ANSWER-Indictment
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, a person is arrested when the person has been ____. - ANSWER-Taken into custody
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, a written statement that is filed and presented on behalf of the State of Texas by a district attorney that charges a person with an offense that may be prosecuted according to law is called a/an _____. - ANSWER-Information
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, a peace officer from another state may pursue a fleeing person into Texas and arrest them there, if the person is suspected of committing ______. - ANSWER-A felony
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, the time allowed for the execution of a search warrant shall be _____ whole days, exclusive of the day of issuance and the day of its execution. - ANSWER-3 whole days
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, which court has original jurisdiction over all felony cases? - ANSWER-District Court
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, what is a writ issued by a court directing any peace officer in the state, commanding him to arrest a person accused of an offense and bring him before that court immediately called? - ANSWER-Capias
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, appeals from the Justice Court are heard by the _____ Court. - ANSWER-County
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, what is the term for a written order from a magistrate, directed to a peace officer, commanding them to take the body of the person accused of an offense, to be dealt with according to law? - ANSWER-Arrest warrant
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, what is a law enforcement-initiated action based on an individual's ethnicity or national origin rather than the individual's behavior? - ANSWER-Racial Profiling
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, whenever a peace officer meets with resistance in discharging any duty imposed on him by law, he _____ command a sufficient number of citizens of his county to overcome the resistance. - ANSWER-Shall
_____ circumstances exist when there is not enough time to obtain a warrant and the officer must establish probable cause. - ANSWER-Emergency
The right to have an attorney present during questioning was affirmed by _____. - ANSWER-Miranda V. Arizona
Persons found in suspicious places, and under circumstances which reasonably show that such persons are about to commit some offense against the laws may _____. - ANSWER-Be arrested without a warrant
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, a peace officer or any other person, may, without a warrant, arrest an offender when the offense is committed in their presence or within their view if the offense is classified as _____. - ANSWER-A felony
In U.S. v. Carroll, the Supreme Court upheld an officer's right to search a vehicle's trunk when the officers have _____. - ANSWER-Probable cause
Under temporary detention, a person _____ be required to identify himself. - ANSWER-Cannot
The act of keeping back, or withholding, by design, a person, is the definition of _____. - ANSWER-Detention
The right of the officer to search the immediate area of control in a search incident to an arrest was affirmed in _____. - ANSWER-Chimel V. Calfornia
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, a search warrant is a written order, issued by a magistrate and directed to a peace officer, commanding him to _____. - ANSWER-Search for any property or thing and seize the same
Holding a person for a limited time who, as yet, is not answerable to a criminal offense is ____. - ANSWER-Temporary Detention
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, if a _____ from another state comes into or passes through this state under an order directing him to attend and testify in this or another state, he is not subject to arrest or the service of civil or criminal process because of any act committed prior to his arrival in this state under the order. - ANSWER-Witness
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, an officer must have _____ to believe the property is stolen to justify seizure of the property. - ANSWER-Probable Cause
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, a peace officer may arrest, without a warrant, when a felony or breach of the peace has been committed in the presence or within view of a _____ and such person verbally orders the arrest of the offender. - ANSWER-Magistrate
_____ exists when the facts and circumstances known to the officer would warrant a prudent man believing that an offense has been committed. - ANSWER-Probable cause
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, what is the actual forcible detention of a person and other coercive measures to detain him within certain limits? - ANSWER-cONSTRUCTIVE CUSTODY
Which U.S. Constitutional amendment is the primary focus of the Miranda v. Arizona case? - ANSWER-5th
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, a citizen may, without a warrant, arrest an offender when the offense is committed within their view is a _____. - ANSWER-Felony
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, which of the following, occurring in the presence of an officer, requires an arrest, even without a warrant? - ANSWER-There is a person the officer has probable cause to believe is violating a protective order
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, a peace officer may break down the door of any house for the purpose of making an arrest if he has been refused admittance after giving notice of his authority and purpose under which of the following circumstances. - ANSWER-Felony
The poisonous tree doctrine, which displays the notion that evidence obtained after illegal government action will be excluded from evidence, was affirmed in _____. - ANSWER-Wong Sun V. U.S.
You can frisk if there is _____ that the suspect may be in possession of a weapon. - ANSWER-Reasonable fear
When a search is conducted after a lawful arrest, within immediate control and contemporaneous with the arrest, the search is justified under _____ to lawful arrest. - ANSWER-incidental
What is generally considered to be that area of open space surrounding a dwelling, which is so immediately adjacent to the dwelling that it is part of the house? - ANSWER-Curtilage
According to the Penal Code, what is NOT part of the element of an offense? - ANSWER-admission of guilt
According to the Penal Code, in the case of an "exception to an offense," the burden of proof lies with the _____. - ANSWER-Prosecuting attorney
According to the Penal Code, a person acts _____, with respect to the nature of their conduct, when it is the conscious objective or desire to engage in the conduct or cause the result. - ANSWER-intentionally
According to the Penal Code, a person is criminally responsible as a party to an offense if the offense is _____. - ANSWER-Committed by his own conduct
According to the Penal Code, what is an affirmative defense to prosecution that the actor was compelled by threat of serious bodily injury to engage in the proscribed conduct? - ANSWER-Duress
According to the Penal Code, a mistake of fact is _____. - ANSWER-A defense to prosecution
According to the Penal Code, in order to prove a case of public intoxication, a person must ____. - ANSWER-Appear in a public place while intoxicated to a degree the person may endanger himself/herself or another
A person is in the process of robbing a store when a customer enters and is shot and killed by the person. According to the Penal Code, what is the most serious offense committed? - ANSWER-Capital Murder
A person abducts a child and demands a ransom for the child's release. The person gets scared and releases the child unharmed. According to the Penal Code, what is the most serious offense committed? - ANSWER-Aggravated kidnapping
According to the Penal Code, what offense is committed when a person threatens to harm another, by an unlawful act, on account of their service as a witness or public servant? - ANSWER-Obstruction or retaliation
A person causes an explosion with intent to destroy or damage, and is reckless about whether the explosion will endanger the life of some individual. According to the Penal Code, the person has committed the offense of _____. - ANSWER-Arson
A person who, in the course of committing theft, intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly causes bodily injury to another, or places another in fear of imminent bodily injury or death, has committed what offense? - ANSWER-Robbery
A person knowingly causes serious bodily injury to another in the course of committing theft. According to the Penal Code, what is the most serious offense committed? - ANSWER-Aggravated Robbery
A person breaks into an attached garage, breaks into a vehicle parked in the garage, and steals a $1,500 computer from the back seat. According to the Penal Code, what is the most serious offense committed? - ANSWER-Burglary
According to the Penal Code, a person commits the offense of theft if they _____ appropriate property with intent to deprive the owner of the property. - ANSWER-Unlawfully
A person removes a $450 price tag from a retail item, replaces it with a $200 price tag and pays the lower price. According to the Penal Code, the person has committed the offense of _____. - ANSWER-Fraudulent destruction, removal, or concealment of writing
A person steals a credit card with the intent to use it. According to the Penal Code, the person has committed the offense of _____. - ANSWER-Credit card abuse
A person knowingly prevents a writ from being served in a civil case. According to the Penal Code, the person has committed the offense of _____. - ANSWER-Preventing execution of civil process
A person enters the county commissioners' meeting and begins to shout obscenities. According to the Penal Code, that person has committed the offense of _____. - ANSWER-Disrupting meeting or procession
According to the Penal Code, a person who knowingly solicits another to engage in sexual conduct with another person for compensation commits the offense of _____. - ANSWER-Promotion of prostitution
According to the Penal Code, a person who intentionally operates or participates in the earnings of a gambling place has committed the offense of _____. - ANSWER-Gambling promotion
According to the Penal Code, what is the definition of a deadly weapon? - ANSWER-Anything that, in its manner of intended use, is capable of causing serious bodily injury
According to the Penal Code, all persons are presumed to be innocent, and no person may be convicted of an offense unless each element of the offense is proven _____. - ANSWER-Beyond a reasonable doubt
According to the Penal Code, which of the following persons is NOT permitted to carry, on or about their person, a handgun? - ANSWER-A person carrying large sums of money
A person intentionally or knowingly abducts another person with the intent to use them as a shield or hostage. According to the Penal Code, the person has committed the offense of ______. - ANSWER-Aggravated kidnapping
A person intentionally or knowingly restrains another person. According to the Penal Code, the person has committed the offense of _____. - ANSWER-Unlawful restraint
A person intentionally or knowingly abducts another person. According to the Penal Code, the person has committed the offense of _____. - ANSWER-Kidnapping
A person engaged in sexual contact with a child younger than 17 years of age, who is not their spouse, and is more than 3 years older than the child. According to the Penal Code, the person has committed the offense of _____. - ANSWER-Indecency with a child
A person intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly causes bodily injury to another, including the person's spouse. According to the Penal Code, the person has committed the offense of _____. - ANSWER-Aggravated assault
A person intentionally or knowingly causes the death of an individual. According to the Penal Code, the person has committed the offense of _____. - ANSWER-Murder
A person recklessly causes the death of an individual. According to the Penal Code, the person has committed the offense of _____. - ANSWER-Manslaughter
A person operates an amusement ride while intoxicated, and by reason of that intoxication causes the death of another by accident or mistake. According to the Penal Code, the person has committed the offense of _____. - ANSWER-Intoxication manslaughter
According to the Penal Code, which of the following is a "short barrel" firearm? - ANSWER-A shotgun with an overall length of less than 26 inches
According to the Penal Code, which of the following is NOT covered in Section 46.02, "unlawfully carrying weapons?" - ANSWER-Shotgun
A person, not the operator, knowingly possesses an open container (of alcohol) in a passenger area of a motor vehicle that is located on a public highway. According to the Penal Code, the person has committed the offense of _____. - ANSWER-Possession of alcoholic beverage in motor vehicle
According to the Penal Code, a license, certificate, permit, seal, title, letter of patent, or similar document issued by a government, by another state, or by the United States is a _____. - ANSWER-Governmental record
A person is in possession of a burning tobacco product in an elevator. According to the Penal Code, what offense has been committed? - ANSWER-Smoking tobacco
A person retains a child younger than 18, knowing this violates the express terms of a judgment. According to the Penal Code, what offense has been committed? - ANSWER-Interference with child custody
According to the Penal Code, conduct merely affording a person an opportunity to commit an offense does not constitute _____. - ANSWER-Entrapment
According to the Penal Code, a person is justified in using deadly force against another when and to the degree he reasonably believes the deadly force is immediately necessary to _____. - ANSWER-prevent the others imminent commission of robbery
According to the Transportation Code, an operator intending to turn a vehicle right or left shall signal continuously for not less than the last _____ feet of movement of the vehicle before the turn. - ANSWER-100
According to the Transportation Code, a motor vehicle designed, used, or maintained primarily to transport property, is the definition of _____. - ANSWER-Truck
According to the Transportation Code, a motor vehicle designed and used primarily as a farm implement to draw an implement of husbandry is the definition of a _____. - ANSWER-Farm tractor
. According to the Transportation Code, a vehicle that is not designed or used primarily to transport persons or property and that is only incidentally operated on a highway, is classified a/an____. - ANSWER-Special mobile
. According to the Transportation Code, an individual, association, corporation, or other legal entity that controls, operates, or directs the operation of one or more vehicles that transport persons or cargo over a road or highway in this state is a/an _____. - ANSWER-Motor carrier
. According to the Transportation Code, before a violation for expired registration exists there is a _____ grace period after expiration. - ANSWER-5 working days
. According to the Transportation Code, a divided, controlled-access highway for through traffic is the definition of a _____. - ANSWER-Freeway
According to the Transportation Code, an improved shoulder is defined as a _____. - ANSWER-Paved shoulder
According to the Transportation Code, the period beginning one-half hour before sunrise and ending one-half hour after sunset is _____. - ANSWER-Daytime
. According to the Transportation Code, an injury to any part of the human body and that requires treatment is a _____. - ANSWER-Bodily injury
A person disposes of litter on the public highway. According to the Health and Safety Code, what offense has been committed? - ANSWER-Illegal dumping
According to the Transportation Code, a temporary prohibition against driving a commercial motor vehicle is what type of order? - ANSWER-out or service
. According to the Transportation Code, an operator approaching a railroad grade crossing shall stop if a railroad engine approaching within approximately _____ feet of the highway crossing emits a signal audible from that distance. - ANSWER-1500
According to the Transportation Code, an operator emerging from an alley shall stop the vehicle _____. - ANSWER-Before moving on a sidewalk
According to the Transportation Code, an operator may not, except momentarily to pick up or discharge a passenger, stand or park an occupied or unoccupied vehicle within how many feet of a fire hydrant? - ANSWER-15
According to the Transportation Code, an operator giving hand signals shall give them from _____. - ANSWER-The left side of the vehicle
. According to the Transportation Code, an operator may not drive at a speed greater than is reasonable and _____ under the circumstances existing - ANSWER-Prudent
According to the Transportation Code, a vehicle equipped with hazard lamps to warn other vehicle operators of a vehicular traffic hazard shall have the lamps visible at a distance of at least _____ feet in normal sunlight. - ANSWER-500
. According to the Transportation Code, a turn signal lamp mounted on the rear of a vehicle shall emit _____ light. - ANSWER-Red or amber
According to the Transportation Code, unless expressly provided otherwise, a lighting device or reflector mounted on the rear of a vehicle must be or reflect _____. - ANSWER-Red
According to the Transportation Code, an operator may not follow an ambulance closer than _____ when it is displaying headlights. - ANSWER-500 feet
. According to the Transportation Code, what is the minimum light transmission percentage allowable for window tinting? - ANSWER-30
According to the Transportation Code, a motor vehicle is abandoned if the motor vehicle is inoperable, is more than 5 years old, and has been left unattended on public property for more than _____ hours. - ANSWER-48
According to the Transportation Code, a buyer's temporary cardboard tags are valid for _____ days after the date of purchase. - ANSWER-21 [Show Less]