Texas Insurance Code

§ 501.055 — GROUNDS FOR REMOVAL

IN § 501.055Title 5. PROTECTION OF CONSUMER INTERESTS · Part A. PUBLIC INSURANCE COUNSEL · Ch. 501. OFFICE OF PUBLIC INSURANCE COUNSEL · Art. B. PUBLIC COUNSEL

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(a)It is a ground for removal from office if the public counsel:

(1)does not have at the time of appointment or maintain during service as public counsel the qualifications required by Section 501.052;

(2)violates a prohibition established by Section 501.053, 501.054, 501.056, or 501.102; or

(3)cannot, because of illness or disability, discharge the public counsel's duties for a substantial part of the public counsel's term.

(b)The validity of an action of the office is not affected by the fact that the action is taken when a ground for removal of the public counsel exists.

Legislative history

Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1274, Sec. 2, eff. April 1, 2005.