Tex. Prop. Code § 53.024 · Subchapter B. PERSONS ENTITLED TO LIEN; SUBJECT PROPERTY
LIMITATION ON SUBCONTRACTOR'S LIEN.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The amount of a lien claimed by a subcontractor may not exceed:
(1) an amount equal to the proportion of the total subcontract price that the sum of the labor performed, materials furnished, materials specially fabricated, reasonable overhead costs incurred, and proportionate profit margin bears to the total subcontract price; minus
(2) the sum of previous payments received by the claimant on the subcontract.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3536, ch. 576, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PR/htm/PR.53.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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