Texas Property Code Title 5, Chapter 54 - Landlord's Liens

SUBCHAPTER A AGRICULTURAL LANDLORD'S LIEN

• Texas Section 54.001 - Lien
  A person who leases land or tenements at will or for a term of years has a preference lien for rent that becomes due and...
• Texas Section 54.002 - Property To Which Lien Attaches
  (a) Except as provided by Subsections (b) and (c), the lien attaches to: (1) the property on the leased premises that the landlord furnishes or...
• Texas Section 54.003 - Exceptions
  The lien does not arise if: (1) a tenant provides everything necessary to cultivate the leased premises and the landlord charges rent of more than...
• Texas Section 54.004 - Duration Of Lien
  The lien exists while the property to which it is attached remains on the leased premises and until one month after the day that the...
• Texas Section 54.005 - Removal Of Property
  (a) If an advance or rent is unpaid, a tenant may not without the landlord's consent remove or permit the removal of agricultural products or...
• Texas Section 54.006 - Distress Warrant
  (a) The person to whom rent or an advance is payable under the lease or the person's agent, attorney, assign, or other legal representative may...

SUBCHAPTER B BUILDING LANDLORD'S LIEN

• Texas Section 54.007 - Judgment On Replevin Bond
  If a final judgment is rendered against a defendant who has replevied property seized under a distress warrant, the sureties on the defendant's replevy bond...
• Texas Section 54.021 - Lien
  A person who leases or rents all or part of a building for nonresidential use has a preference lien on the property of the tenant...
• Texas Section 54.022 - Commercial Building
  (a) The lien is unenforceable for rent on a commercial building that is more than six months past due unless the landlord files a lien...
• Texas Section 54.023 - Exemptions
  This subchapter does not affect a statute exempting property from forced sale. Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3560, ch. 576, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1,
• Texas Section 54.024 - Duration Of Lien
  The lien exists while the tenant occupies the building and until one month after the day that the tenant abandons the building. Acts 1983, 68th...

SUBCHAPTER C RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD'S LIEN

• Texas Section 54.025 - Distress Warrant
  The person to whom rent is payable under a building lease or the person's agent, attorney, assign, or other legal representative may apply to the...
• Texas Section 54.041 - Lien
  A landlord of a single or multifamily residence has a lien for unpaid rent that is due. The lien attaches to nonexempt property that is...
• Texas Section 54.042 - Exemptions
  A lien under this subchapter does not attach to: (1) wearing apparel; (2) tools, apparatus, and books of a trade or profession; (3) schoolbooks; (4)...
• Texas Section 54.043 - Enforceability Of Contractual Provisions
  (a) A contractual landlord's lien is not enforceable unless it is underlined or printed in conspicuous bold print in the lease agreement. (b) A provision...
• Texas Section 54.044 - Seizure Of Property
  (a) The landlord or the landlord's agent may not seize exempt property and may seize nonexempt property only if it is authorized by a written...
• Texas Section 54.045 - Sale Of Property
  (a) Property seized under Section 54.044 may not be sold or otherwise disposed of unless the sale or disposition is authorized in a written lease....
• Texas Section 54.046 - Violation By Landlord
  If a landlord or the landlord's agent wilfully violates this subchapter, the tenant is entitled to: (1) actual damages, return of any property seized that...
• Texas Section 54.047 - Other Rights Not Affected
  This subchapter does not affect or diminish any other rights or obligations arising under common law or any statute. Added by Acts 1985, 69th Leg.,...
• Texas Section 54.048 - Tenant May Replevy
  At any time before judgment in a suit for unpaid rent, the tenant may replevy any of the property that has been seized, if the...

Last modified: September 28, 2016