Tex. Agric. Code § 188.026 · Subchapter C. PRIORITY OF LIEN
TIME OF FILING.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A lien created under this chapter has the same priority as a security interest perfected by the filing of a financing statement on the date the notice of claim of lien was filed.
(b) A lien created under this chapter does not have priority over:
(1) labor claims for wages and salaries for personal services that are provided by an employee to a lien debtor in connection with the livestock, the production of animal products derived from the livestock, or issue born to the livestock, the proceeds of which are subject to the lien; or
(2) claims for charges for the care of the livestock, the proceeds of which are subject to the lien.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 197, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/AG/htm/AG.188.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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