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Article XV, § 5 — SUSPENSION PENDING IMPEACHMENT; PROVISIONAL APPOINTMENT

Texas Const. art. XV, § 5

This text of Texas Const. art. XV, § 5 (SUSPENSION PENDING IMPEACHMENT; PROVISIONAL APPOINTMENT) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Texas primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

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Tex. Const. art. XV, § 5.

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All officers against whom articles of impeachment may be preferred shall be suspended from the exercise of the duties of their office, during the pendency of such impeachment. The Governor may make a provisional appointment to fill the vacancy,* occasioned by the suspension of an officer until the decision on the impeachment.

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History

Feb. 15, 1876.

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