SHAM CONTRACT
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Goldstein v. State (1991)
Most recently applied in Prabhakar Guniganti, Individually, the Guniganti Children's 1999 Trust, and Triple PG Sand Development, LLC v. C & S Components Company, LTD (May 2015)
Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3537, ch. 576, Sec. 1, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) A person who labors or furnishes labor or materials under a direct contractual relationship with a purported original contractor is considered to be an original contractor for purposes of perfecting a mechanic's lien.
(b) Repealed by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 690 (H.B. 2237), Sec. 36(2), eff. January 1, 2022.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.