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Texas
The contract forms, payment statutes and notice regimes that decide when you get paid and what you have to serve to keep the right.
9 authorities, 9 statutory, 9 free to read.
State of Texas
Texas has codified what other jurisdictions leave to the Spearin doctrine and attached a reporting duty to it. It converts the RFI from an administrative habit into the discharge of a statutory duty, which is a concrete reason to date and keep them.
State of Texas
One handle for the five statutes that between them govern how a Texas public job is bought, bonded, paid and retained. On public work these displace the lien regime entirely, which is the single most consequential fact in the region.
State of Texas
Changes how a Texas subcontract should be read and priced. A broad indemnity here is usually unenforceable, so pricing risk into it prices something that will not bite, and relying on it upstream relies on nothing.
Texas Legislature
The most under-appreciated exposure on the residential side. A roofing or remodelling contractor who signs at the customer's kitchen table after knocking on the door is inside this chapter, the notice and the detachable form are both mandatory and both size-specified, and the consequence of getting the form wrong is that the contract is void and no compensation is recoverable for services already performed. It is a formatting requirement with a total-loss failure mode.
Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation; Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners; Texas municipalities
The commonest wrong assumption made about Texas by anyone arriving from a licence state. The answer is genuinely 'it depends on the city', and saying that precisely, with the trades carved out, is more useful than any national summary.
Texas Legislature
Public property cannot be liened, so on public work the bond is the only route and the sworn statement of account is the document that carries the claim. Its content requirements, that all known lawful offsets, payments and credits have been allowed and that retainage not yet due is stated, are what make the account a distinct deliverable rather than a stack of invoices with a covering letter.
State of Texas
Texas notice deadlines are month-based and easy to state wrongly from memory. Always read the statute.
Texas Legislature
Relevant to the contract rather than the invoice, but it belongs in the same pack because the notice is a drafting requirement on the residential contract and its omission carries a civil penalty. The inspect and cure route it advertises is worth more to the contractor than the notice costs to include.
Texas Legislature
This is the single most load-bearing authority for the Texas invoice. Three things in it have no equivalent in most states: the owner's statutory reserve is a duty imposed on the owner rather than a contract term, the waiver and release forms are prescribed by statute rather than negotiated, and the notice clocks run from the calendar month of the work rather than from the invoice date.
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