Sec. 24.021. INCOMPETENCY    


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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.

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