Sec. 58.002. LIEN. (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. Jan. 1, 1984.
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