TIME FOR WHICH FUNDS ARE WITHHELD
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Raymond v. Rahme (2002)
Most recently applied in Long Q. Pham and Thao M. Silva v. Harris County Rentals, L.L.C. (December 2014)
Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3544, 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.
Unless the claim is otherwise settled, discharged, indemnified against under Subchapter H or I, or determined to be invalid by a final judgment of a court, the owner shall retain the funds withheld until:
(1) the time for filing the affidavit of mechanic's lien has passed; or
(2) if a lien affidavit has been filed, the lien claim has been satisfied or released.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.