Tex. Const. art. XV, § 5 · Article 15. IMPEACHMENT
SUSPENSION PENDING IMPEACHMENT; PROVISIONAL APPOINTMENT.
Text — Current through the amendments approved by voters in November 2025
All officers against whom articles of impeachment may be preferred shall be suspended from the exercise of the duties of their office, during the pendency of such impeachment. The Governor may make a provisional appointment to fill the vacancy,† occasioned by the suspension of an officer until the decision on the impeachment.
Notes and commentary — not constitutional text
History
(Feb. 15, 1876.)
Publisher's footnote
† The language of this provision is identical to the language of the official legislative measure that originally proposed the provision. A digital image of the original text of the official enrolled measure can be found here.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the amendments approved by voters in November 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CN/htm/CN.15.htm
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- sha256 2346f22d528d7566b54ccccd50ccf22dfa1b412974f54edf7c7a74049d3a270e
- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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