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Chapter 1 - Garage Keepers and Liverymen
§ 40–101. Liveryman’s lien - It shall be lawful for all persons keeping or boarding...
§ 40–102. Lien for storage, repairs and supplies for motor vehicles - (a) All persons storing, repairing, or furnishing supplies of or...
§ 40–103. Enforcement of lien by sale - (a) If the amount due and for which a lien...
§ 40–104. Application of proceeds of sale - The proceeds of such sale shall be applied: (1) To...
§ 40–105. Limitation on lien for storage - To the extent that any lien provided for in this...
Chapter 2 - Hospitals
§ 40–201. Hospital’s lien for services on recovery in accident cases - Every association, corporation, or other institution, and any agency of...
§ 40–202. Notice - No such lien shall be effective, however, unless a written...
§ 40–203. Liability for failure to pay hospital’s lien - Any person or persons, firm or firms, corporation or corporations,...
§ 40–204. Permission to examine hospital records - Any person or persons, firm or firms, corporation or corporations...
§ 40–205. Recorder to provide lien docket - The Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia shall...
Chapter 3 - Mechanics, Materialmen, and Contractors
Subchapter I - General
§ 40–301.01. Mechanic’s lien - Every building erected, improved, added to, or repaired at the...
§ 40–301.02. Notice - (a)(1) A contractor desiring to enforce the lien shall record...
§ 40–301.03. Definitions - For the purposes of this chapter, the term: (1) “Home...
Subchapter II - Subcontractor’s Lien
§ 40–303.01. Subcontractor’s lien — generally - Any person directly employed by a contractor described by §...
§ 40–303.02. Conditions and limitations - (a) A lien in favor of parties so employed by...
§ 40–303.03. Notice to owner - The said subcontractor or other person employed by the contractor...
§ 40–303.04. Owner’s duty - After notice shall be filed by said party employed under...
§ 40–303.05. Subcontractor entitled to know terms of contract - Any subcontractor or other person employed by the contractor as...
§ 40–303.06. Advance payments - If the owner, for the purpose of avoiding the provisions...
§ 40–303.07. Priority of lien - The lien hereby given shall be preferred to all judgments,...
§ 40–303.08. How lien enforced - The proceeding to enforce the lien hereby given shall be...
§ 40–303.09. Decree of sale - If the right of the complainant, or of any of...
§ 40–303.10. Subcontractor preferred to contractor - If the original contractor and the persons contracting or employed...
§ 40–303.11. Distribution of sale proceeds - If one, or some only, of the persons employed under...
§ 40–303.12. Several buildings - In case of labor done or materials furnished for the...
§ 40–303.13. When suit to be commenced - (a)(1) Any person with a lien and who has recorded...
§ 40–303.14. Extent of land bound by lien - If there be any contest as to the dimensions of...
§ 40–303.15. Entry of satisfaction - Whenever any person having a lien by virtue hereof shall...
§ 40–303.16. Payment into court and release - (a) In any suit to enforce a lien under this...
§ 40–303.16a. Effect of failure to file notice. [Repealed] - Repealed. (Mar. 3, 1901, 31 Stat. 1387, c. 854, §...
§ 40–303.17. Undertaking to discharge liens before suit - Such an undertaking as above mentioned may be offered before...
§ 40–303.18. Decree against sureties - If such undertaking be approved before any suit brought, such...
§ 40–303.19. No action by subcontractor against owner - No subcontractor, materialman, or workman employed under the original contractor...
§ 40–303.20. Judgment for deficiency upon sale - In any suit brought to enforce a lien by virtue...
§ 40–303.20a. Authority to promulgate regulations - (a) The Mayor shall promulgate rules to implement this chapter....
Subchapter III - Wharves and Lots
§ 40–305.01. Wharves and lots - Any person who shall furnish materials or labor in filling...
Subchapter IV - Artisan’s Lien
§ 40–307.01. Artisan’s lien — Generally - Any mechanic or artisan who shall make, alter, or repair...
§ 40–307.02. Enforcement by sale - If the amount due and for which a lien is...
§ 40–307.03. Enforcement by bill in equity - If the value of the property so subject to lien...
Chapter 4 - Storage Liens
§ 40–401. Definitions - For the purposes of this chapter, the term: (1) “Default”...
§ 40–402. Prohibited acts - (a) An operator shall not knowingly permit a leased space...
§ 40–403. Lien for rent, labor, or other charges - (a) The operator shall have a lien on all personal...
§ 40–404. Enforcement of lien - (a)(1) If the occupant is in default for a period...
§ 40–405. Personal property vested in occupant - Unless the rental agreement specifically provides otherwise and until a...