Texas Government Code

§ 24.021 — INCOMPETENCY

GV § 24.021Title 2. JUDICIAL BRANCH · Part A. COURTS · Ch. 24. DISTRICT COURTS · Art. A. GENERAL PROVISIONS

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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.

Legislative history

Added by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 18, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.