For purposes of Article XV, Section 6, of the Texas Constitution, "incompetency" means:

1. (1) gross ignorance of official duties;
2. (2) gross carelessness in the discharge of official duties; or
3. (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.