Tex. Government Code § 24.021: INCOMPETENCY.
Where this section sits in the code
- GOVERNMENT CODE
- TITLE 2. JUDICIAL BRANCH
- SUBTITLE A. COURTS
- CHAPTER 24. DISTRICT COURTS
- SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
For purposes of Article XV, Section 6, of the Texas Constitution, "incompetency" means:
(1) gross ignorance of official duties;
(2) gross carelessness in the discharge of official duties; or
(3) inability or unfitness to promptly and properly discharge official duties because of a serious mental or physical defect that did not exist at the time of the judge's election.
Added by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 18, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.
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