Sec. 21.025. GENERAL GROUNDS FOR REMOVAL  


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  • (a) An officer may be removed from office for:

    (1) incompetency;

    (2) official misconduct; or

    (3) intoxication on or off duty caused by drinking an alcoholic beverage.

    (b) Intoxication is not a ground for removal if it appears at the trial that the intoxication was caused by drinking an alcoholic beverage on the direction and prescription of a licensed physician practicing in this state.

Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1567, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.