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PROPERTY CODE

CHAPTER 60. NEWSPAPER EMPLOYEE'S LIEN


	§ 60.001. LIEN.  A worker in the editorial, reportorial, 
advertising, or business department of a newspaper, periodical, or 
other publication who labors or performs a service for the 
publication under a written or an oral contract with any person has 
a first lien under this chapter for the amount due under the 
contract.

Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3578, ch. 576, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.            


	§ 60.002. PROPERTY SUBJECT TO LIEN.  The lien attaches to 
all products, papers, machinery, tools, fixtures, appurtenances, 
goods, wares, merchandise, subscription contracts, chattels, or 
other things of value that are created wholly or partly by the labor 
of the workers or that are necessarily connected with the 
performance of their labor or service and that are owned by or in 
possession of the person with whom the workers contracted.

Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3578, ch. 576, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.