{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-property-code-58.001","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Property Code § 58.001","heading":"DEFINITIONS.","body":"In this chapter:\n(1) \"Employer\" means a person with whom a worker contracts, directly or through an agent, receiver, or trustee of the person, for the performance of labor or a service by the worker. The contract may be oral or in writing.\n(2) \"Worker\" means a clerk, accountant, bookkeeper, waiter, waitress, cook, maid, porter, servant, employee, artisan, craftsman, factory operator, mill operator, mechanic, quarry worker, common laborer, or farmhand.\nActs 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3571, ch. 576, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.","path":["PROPERTY CODE","TITLE 5. EXEMPT PROPERTY AND LIENS","SUBTITLE B. LIENS","CHAPTER 58. FARM, FACTORY, AND STORE WORKER'S LIENS"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PR/htm/PR.58.htm#58.001","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:37Z","sha256":"dec7d8a218f40a04ed16e33c36b36a0145c0cd076db163940c801acb4599ee88","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-property-code-57.006","next":"us-tx/tex.-property-code-58.002"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}