{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-water-code-11.051","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Water Code § 11.051","heading":"IRRIGATION: LIEN ON CROPS.","body":"(a) A person who constructs a ditch, canal, dam, lake, or reservoir for the purpose of irrigation and who leases, rents, furnishes, or supplies water to any person for irrigation, with or without a contract, has a preference lien superior to every other lien on the irrigated crops. However, when any irrigation district or conservation and reclamation district obtains a water supply under contract with the United States, the board of directors of the district, by resolution entered in its minutes, with the consent of the secretary of the interior, may waive the preference lien in whole or in part.\n(b) To enforce the lien, the lienholder has all the rights and remedies prescribed by Articles 5222 through 5239, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925.\nAmended by Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2207, ch. 870, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1977.","path":["WATER CODE","TITLE 2. WATER ADMINISTRATION","SUBTITLE B. WATER RIGHTS","CHAPTER 11. WATER RIGHTS","SUBCHAPTER B. RIGHTS IN STATE WATER"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/WA/htm/WA.11.htm#11.051","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:48Z","sha256":"a76ae7a53e49caf864f1cbf81d6d13fb89e4e329786dec8e2a1305fbf0a2c15d","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-water-code-11.050","next":"us-tx/tex.-water-code-11.052"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}