Tex. Prop. Code § 54.003 · Subchapter A. AGRICULTURAL LANDLORD'S LIEN

EXCEPTIONS.

Verbatim from the official edition

Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

The lien does not arise if:

(1) a tenant provides everything necessary to cultivate the leased premises and the landlord charges rent of more than one-third of the value of the grain and one-fourth of the value of the cotton grown on the premises; or

(2) a landlord provides everything except the labor and directly or indirectly charges rent of more than one-half of the value of the grain and cotton grown on the premises.

Notes and commentary — not statutory text

History

Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3558, 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.54.htm
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