LIEN
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Stone v. Crown Diversified Industries Corp. (1999)
Most recently applied in Bloom Business Jets, LLC v. Glencove Holdings, LLC (May 2017)
Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 250, 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 stores, fuels, repairs, or performs maintenance work on an aircraft has a lien on the aircraft for:
(1) the amount due under a contract for the storage, fuel, repairs, or maintenance work; or
(2) if no amount is specified by contract, the reasonable and usual compensation for the storage, fuel, repairs, or maintenance work.
(b) This subchapter applies to a contract for storage only if it is:
(1) written; or
(2) oral and provides for a storage period of at least 30 days.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.