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Section 29-5-10. Lien of person furnishing labor and materials for buildings or structures; offers of settlement. - (a) A person to whom a debt is due for...
Section 29-5-15. Filing requirements; penalty for frivolous lien. - (A) To file a mechanics' lien, a contractor must provide...
Section 29-5-20. Lien of laborer, mechanic, subcontractor or materialman; limits on aggregate amount of liens filed by sub-subcontractor or supplier; limits on total aggregate amount of liens; exceptions; settlement of action to enforce lien. - (A) Every laborer, mechanic, subcontractor, or person furnishing material for...
Section 29-5-21. Services of surveyor and real estate licensee as improving real estate; real estate licensee's liens. - (A) A surveyor who surveys real estate by virtue of...
Section 29-5-22. Reasonable rental value of tools, appliances, machinery, and equipment. - A person who supplies tools, appliances, machinery, or equipment used...
Section 29-5-23. Notice of Project Commencement; location notice; failure to file notice. - Any person entering into a direct agreement with, or with...
Section 29-5-25. Private security guard services at site of real estate improvement. - Any person providing private security guard services at the site...
Section 29-5-26. Landscape services. - (A) A person who provides a landscape service on a...
Section 29-5-27. Laborer and person defined. - Any person providing construction and demolition debris disposal services, as...
Section 29-5-30. Lien against debtor with life estate or whose estate is less than fee simple. - If the person for whom the work is done or...
Section 29-5-40. Notice to owner before lien attaches when laborer was employed by someone other than owner. - Whenever work is done or material is furnished for the...
Section 29-5-50. Lienor's preference over contractor. - Any person claiming a lien under the provisions of this...
Section 29-5-60. Proration of payments among lienors. - (A) In the event the amount due the contractor by...
Section 29-5-70. Force of lien against existing recorded mortgage. - Except as otherwise provided in Section 29-3-50, a lien claimed...
Section 29-5-80. Notice of nonresponsibility by owner of building or structure. - The owner of any such building or structure in process...
Section 29-5-90. Dissolution of lien for failure to serve and file statement; contents of statement. - Such a lien shall be dissolved unless the person desiring...
Section 29-5-100. Proceedings not invalidated by inaccuracy of statement of account. - No inaccuracy in such statement relating to the property to...
Section 29-5-110. Release of lien upon filing written undertaking and security. - At any time after service and filing of the statement...
Section 29-5-120. Time for bringing suit to enforce lien; dissolution and release of lien. - (A) Unless a suit for enforcing the lien is commenced...
Section 29-5-130. Enforcement of certain liens before magistrate's court. - When the amount of the claim does not exceed one...
Section 29-5-140. Enforcement of lien by petition to court of common pleas. - The lien may be enforced by petition to the court...
Section 29-5-150. Service of petition. - The petition may be served with the summons or filed...
Section 29-5-160. Contents of petition. - The petition shall contain a brief statement of the contract...
Section 29-5-170. Petition filed by multiple lienors. - Any number of persons who have actually performed labor or...
Section 29-5-180. Amendments of pleadings. - The court may at any time allow either party to...
Section 29-5-190. Notice to owner and other creditors. - The court in which the petition is entered shall order...
Section 29-5-200. Notice by publication or other than personal service. - If it appears to the court that any of the...
Section 29-5-210. Further notice of suit. - If at the time assigned for the hearing it appears...
Section 29-5-220. Hearing on claims of lienors. - At the time assigned for the hearing, or within such...
Section 29-5-230. Questions for jury. - Every material question of fact arising in the case shall...
Section 29-5-240. Determination of claims due but not yet payable. - The court shall ascertain and determine the amount due to...
Section 29-5-250. Recovery for part performance. - When the owner fails to perform his part of the...
Section 29-5-260. Sale of premises if lien established. - If the lien is established in favor of any of...
Section 29-5-270. Sale of part of property. - If part of the property can be separated from the...
Section 29-5-280. Notice of sale. - The officer who makes the sale shall give notice of...
Section 29-5-290. Distribution of proceeds of sale. - If all the claims against the property covered by the...
Section 29-5-300. Distribution of proceeds by court. - If all the claims are not ascertained when the sale...
Section 29-5-310. Distribution of surplus. - If there remain any surplus of the proceeds of the...
Section 29-5-320. Prior attaching creditor is preferred. - If the interest of the owner in the building, structure...
Section 29-5-330. Distribution of proceeds where there is attaching creditor. - If the attaching creditor recovers judgment he shall be entitled...
Section 29-5-340. Subsequent attachments. - If the interest of the owner of the property is...
Section 29-5-350. Attachments intervening between two liens. - If an attachment is made after the recording of such...
Section 29-5-360. Rights of creditors among themselves. - When there are several attaching creditors, they shall, as between...
Section 29-5-370. Persons against whom lien may be enforced when debtor dies or conveys his interest. - If the person indebted dies or conveys away his estate...
Section 29-5-380. Executor or administrator may enforce creditor's lien. - If a creditor dies before the commencement of the suit,...
Section 29-5-390. Suits begun by one creditor may be prosecuted by another. - If it appears in any stage of the proceedings that...
Section 29-5-400. Allowance of claim and costs of petitioning creditor. - If the suit is commenced by the petitioning creditor before...
Section 29-5-410. Costs. - The costs, in all other respects, shall be subject to...
Section 29-5-420. Civil action not barred. - Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to prevent...
Section 29-5-430. Recording discharge or release of lien. - When a debt secured by such a lien is fully...
Section 29-5-440. Suit on payment bond. - Every person who has furnished labor, material, or rental equipment...