Sec. 62.119. PREFERENCE LIEN; WAIVER; ENFORCEMENT. (a) If a district leases, rents, furnishes, or supplies water to any person, association of persons, water improvement district, or corporation for the purpose of irrigation, the district shall have, without regard to contract, a preference lien superior to every other lien on the crop or crops raised on the land which is irrigated.
(b) If any district obtains a water supply under contract with the United States, the board of directors of the district may, by resolution entered in the minutes and with consent of the secretary of the interior, waive the preference lien, in whole or in part.
(c) For the enforcement of the lien provided in Subsection (a) of this section, all districts are entitled to all the rights and remedies prescribed by Title 84, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, as amended, for the enforcement of the lien between landlord and tenant.
(d) The authority granted by this section shall be cumulative of, and in addition to, the authority granted by other laws.
Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 110, ch. 58, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 30, 1971.
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