Every workman, artisan, mechanic, laborer or other person who performs any work or labor or provides any service under the employment of any general contractor or of any subcontractor in the erection, construction, repair or removal of any building or other structure, or improvement appurtenant thereto, or who alters or improves the real property whereon the same stands, or to which it may have been removed, necessary to the completion of such general contract, shall have such a lien for his or her compensation as is mentioned in section one of this article.
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§38-2-2. Lien of Subcontractor
§38-2-3. Lien of Materialman Furnishing Supplies to Owner
§38-2-4. Lien of Materialman Furnishing Supplies to Contractor or Subcontractor
§38-2-5. Lien of Mechanic or Laborer Working for Owner
§38-2-6. Lien of Mechanic or Laborer Working for Contractor or Subcontractor
§38-2-6a. Lien of Architect, Surveyor, Engineer or Landscape Architect
§38-2-7. Necessity and Period for Perfecting Lien
§38-2-8. Notice and Recordation of Contractor's Lien
§38-2-9. Notice and Recordation of Subcontractor's Lien
§38-2-10. Notice and Recordation of Lien for Supplies Furnished to Owner
§38-2-11. Notice and Recordation of Lien for Supplies Furnished to Contractor or Subcontractor
§38-2-12. Notice and Recordation of Lien of Mechanic or Laborer Working for Owner
§38-2-14. Discharge of Lien for Failure to Comply With Article
§38-2-15. Publication and Posting of Notice to Nonresident Owner or Owner Not Found
§38-2-16. What Deemed Included in One Contract
§38-2-17. Priority of Mechanics' Liens Over Other Liens
§38-2-18. Priority as Among Mechanics' Lienors
§38-2-19. Demand of Account by Owner; Discharge of Lien for Failure to File Account
§38-2-20. Preliminary Notice to Owner; Effect
§38-2-21. Effect of Payment by Owner to Contractor or Subcontractor
§38-2-22. Limitation of Owner's Liability by Recordation of Contract and Bond of General Contractor
§38-2-23. Effect of Failure of Owner to Record Contract and Bond
§38-2-25. Amount of Rural Land Subject to Lien
§38-2-26. Enforcement of Contractor's Bond in Suit to Enforce Lien
§38-2-28. Proof of Sale and Delivery Prima Facie Proof of Use of Materials
§38-2-29. Lien on Several Structures
§38-2-30. Compensation and Lien of Contractor on Default of Owner
§38-2-31. Lien Against Corporation for Work or Labor; Priority
§38-2-32. Perfecting Lien for Work or Labor Against Corporation
§38-2-33. Clerk to Record Notices of Liens Against Corporations for Work and Labor
§38-2-34. Time Within Which Suit to Enforce Lien May Be Brought; Right of Other Lienors to Intervene
§38-2-35. Decree of Sale in Suit to Enforce Lien; Personal Decree
§38-2-36. Discharge or Release of Lien; Recordation; Escrow; Disbursement of Escrow
§38-2-37. Ordering Clerk to Execute Release When Lienholder Refuses
§38-2-38. Enforcement of Lien by Executor, Administrator or Assignee
§38-2-39. Public Building; Bond of Contractor; Recordation of Bond; No Lien in Such Case