California Code
TITLE 2 - PRIVATE WORKS OF IMPROVEMENT
CHAPTER 5 - Stop Payment Notice

ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions

Section 8500. - 8500. The rights of all persons furnishing work for any...

Section 8502. - 8502. (a) A stop payment notice shall comply with the...

Section 8504. - 8504. A claimant that willfully gives a false stop payment...

Section 8506. - 8506. (a) A stop payment notice to an owner shall...

Section 8508. - 8508. A stop payment notice is not valid unless both...

Section 8510. - 8510. (a) A person may obtain release of funds withheld...

ARTICLE 2 - Stop Payment Notice to Owner

Section 8520. - 8520. (a) A person that has a lien right under...

Section 8522. - 8522. (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), on receipt...

ARTICLE 3 - Stop Payment Notice to Construction Lender

Section 8530. - 8530. A person that has a lien right under Chapter...

Section 8532. - 8532. A claimant may give a construction lender a stop...

Section 8534. - 8534. (a) A construction lender that objects to the sufficiency...

Section 8536. - 8536. (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), on receipt...

Section 8538. - 8538. (a) The claimant may make a written request for...

ARTICLE 4 - Priorities

Section 8540. - 8540. (a) Funds withheld pursuant to a stop payment notice...

Section 8542. - 8542. Notwithstanding Section 8540: (a) If funds are withheld pursuant...

Section 8544. - 8544. The rights of a claimant who gives a construction...

ARTICLE 5 - Enforcement of Claim Stated in Stop Payment Notice

Section 8550. - 8550. (a) A claimant shall commence an action to enforce...

Section 8552. - 8552. If more than one claimant has given a stop...

Section 8554. - 8554. Notwithstanding Section 583.420 of the Code of Civil Procedure,...

Section 8556. - 8556. A stop payment notice ceases to be effective, and...

Section 8558. - 8558. (a) In an action to enforce payment of the...

Section 8560. - 8560. If the claimant is the prevailing party in an...