Texas Property Code

§ 58.001 — DEFINITIONS

PR § 58.001Title 5. EXEMPT PROPERTY AND LIENS · Part B. LIENS · Ch. 58. FARM, FACTORY, AND STORE WORKER'S LIENS

Statute text

In this chapter:

(1)"Employer" means a person with whom a worker contracts, directly or through an agent, receiver, or trustee of the person, for the performance of labor or a service by the worker. The contract may be oral or in writing.

(2)"Worker" means a clerk, accountant, bookkeeper, waiter, waitress, cook, maid, porter, servant, employee, artisan, craftsman, factory operator, mill operator, mechanic, quarry worker, common laborer, or farmhand.

Legislative history

Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3571, ch. 576, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.