Tex. Prop. Code § 58.002 · Chapter 58. FARM, FACTORY, AND STORE WORKER'S LIENS
LIEN.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A worker has a lien as provided by this chapter if, under the contract with the employer, the worker:
(1) labors or performs a service in an office, store, hotel, rooming house or boardinghouse, restaurant, shop, factory, mine, quarry, or mill or on a farm; or
(2) performs a service:
(A) in cutting, preparing, hauling, or transporting logs or timber to a place of disposition;
(B) on a means of transportation of logs or timber; or
(C) in constructing or maintaining a tram or railroad constructed or used for transporting logs or timber to their owner or a point of disposition.
(b) The amount of the lien is the amount owed under the contract.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3572, 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.58.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 347dfc0e385d51513aaf6aacaa04efdfd8ddab62bddf82bdf13d8b32c70b1350
- Composed by
- 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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