Tex. Gov't Code § 24.021 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
INCOMPETENCY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 18, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.24.htm
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