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Section II. A Crime
Article 19. Guilt
3. Only a person who committed a given act deliberately or by negligence shall be recognised as guilty in a given crime.
4. An act which was committed by negligence shall be recognised as a crime only in the case in which it is specially stipulated by the relevant article of the Special Part of the Code.
Section II. A Crime
Article 21. A Crime Committed by Negligence
1. An act committed due to willful disregard of danger or neglect shall be recognised as a crime of negligence.
2. A crime shall be recognised as committed due to willful disregard of danger to others, if a person foresaw a possibility of the emergence of publicly dangerous consequences of his acts (omission of acts), but, without sufficient basis, light-mindedly counted on the prevention of those consequences.
3. A crime shall be recognised as an act committed by neglect, if a person did not foresee a possibility of the emergence of publicly dangerous consequences of his acts (omission of acts), though, with due care and forethought, must have and could have foreseen those consequences.