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Tex. Local Government Code § 21.025: GENERAL GROUNDS FOR REMOVAL.
Where this section sits in the code
- LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE
- TITLE 2. ORGANIZATION OF MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT
- SUBTITLE B. MUNICIPAL FORM OF GOVERNMENT
- CHAPTER 21. GENERAL PROVISIONS AFFECTING GOVERNING BODY OF MUNICIPALITY
- SUBCHAPTER B. JUDICIAL REMOVAL OF MEMBER OF GOVERNING BODY OF GENERAL-LAW MUNICIPALITY
(a) An officer may be removed from office for:
(1) incompetency;
(2) official misconduct; or
(3) intoxication on or off duty caused by drinking an alcoholic beverage.
(b) Intoxication is not a ground for removal if it appears at the trial that the intoxication was caused by drinking an alcoholic beverage on the direction and prescription of a licensed physician practicing in this state.
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1567, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
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