LIEN ON RESERVED FUNDS
Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case Stolz v. Honeycutt (2001)
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. 3545, 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 claimant has a lien on the reserved funds if the claimant:
(1) sends the notices required by this chapter in the time and manner required; and
(2) except as allowed by Section 53.057(f), files an affidavit claiming a lien not later than the 30th day after the earliest of the date:
(A) the work is completed;
(B) the original contract is terminated; or
(C) the original contractor abandons performance under the original contract.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.