Section 341.004 - Statement of Location; Priority(a) Not later than the 90th day after the date the building of a structure begins, the individual, corporation, or association that owns the structure shall file for record with the clerk of the county in which the greater part of the structure is located: (1) a sworn statement showing: (A) the location of the structure;(B) the name and size of the structure;(C) the name of the body of water the structure will cross;(D) the date the work began; and(E) the name of the individual, corporation, or association; and(2) a map designating the location of the structure.(b) The right of the individual, corporation, or association to build the structure relates back to the time of the filing of the statement and the map, and the first individual, corporation, or association to file has priority over a subsequent filing.Tex. Transp. Code § 341.004
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.