Incompetency

Sec. 24.021. INCOMPETENCY. 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.