{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-property-code-58.002","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Property Code § 58.002","heading":"LIEN.","body":"(a) A worker has a lien as provided by this chapter if, under the contract with the employer, the worker:\n(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\n(2) performs a service:\n(A) in cutting, preparing, hauling, or transporting logs or timber to a place of disposition;\n(B) on a means of transportation of logs or timber; or\n(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.\n(b) The amount of the lien is the amount owed under the contract.\nActs 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3572, 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#58.002","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:37Z","sha256":"9f2efafcad28b0a16fa4a2b7393b0b8854002e2cb6b82dca12573b42933e51b9","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-property-code-58.001","next":"us-tx/tex.-property-code-58.003"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}