Current with legislation from the 2023 Regular and Special Sessions signed by the Governor as of November 21, 2023.
(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. Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3572, ch. 576, Sec. 1, eff. 1/1/1984.