Steve Mossman, in His Official Capacity as Denton County Tax Assessor-Collector v. Banatex LLC

OPINION

ANN CRAWFORD McCLURE, Chief Justice

Automobile mechanics in Texas enjoy a statutory lien allowing them to hold the customer’s 'vehicle until the' bill is’ paid. But to sell the vehicle to satisfy the account requires serving several notices, one of which has to be filed with, and then served by, the local tax assessór-colléctor’s office. In this appeal, we are asked whether a tax assessor-collector’s office can be required to file and serve one of those notices when it is presented to the tax assessorcollector not by the mechanic who did the work, but rather by a finance company that…