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  • 33-901 - Lien for furnishing labor or machinery upon agricultural land
    A person who labors or furnishes labor or machinery or equipment in improving and preparing agricultural lands for planting crops, and to whom wages or...
  • 33-902 - Procedure to claim lien; foreclosure
    A. A person claiming a lien under this article, within ten days after the labor is performed or the use of the machinery and equipment...
  • 33-903 - Nonliability of vendee of crops upon lien for farm services; demand of statement from vendor; refusal to make or making of erroneous statement by vendor; classification
    If farm products are removed from the premises upon which grown, and sold to a shipper, wholesale dealer or manufacturer upon the open market in...
  • 33-904 - Duration of lien
    A lien provided for in this article is not impressed upon a crop for a longer period than six calendar months after the claim is...
  • 33-905 - Demand by lien holder for enforcement of lien against whole or part of property covered
    A person who brings a civil action to enforce a lien provided for in this article, or any person having a lien who is made...
  • 33-906 - Joinder of actions; costs
    Any number of persons claiming liens against the same property under this article may join in the same action, and when separate actions are commenced,...
  • 33-907 - Enforcement of judgment
    In a civil action filed pursuant to this article, the judgment shall be given in favor of each person having a lien for the amount...
  • 33-908 - Additional remedies
    This article shall not be construed to impair or affect the right of any person to whom a debt is due for work done or...
  • 33-909 - Release of farm services lien
    When any lien established by the provisions of this article has been satisfied, the lienholder shall, within thirty days after satisfaction, issue a release of...
  • 33-931 - Lien of health care provider on damages recovered by injured person receiving services; hospital priority
    A. Every individual, partnership, firm, association, corporation or institution or any governmental unit that maintains and operates a health care institution or provides health care...
  • 33-932 - Perfecting lien; statement of claim; recording; effect
    A. In order to perfect a lien granted by section 33-931, the executive officer, licensed health care provider or agent of a health care provider...
  • 33-933 - Recording and indexing lien claim
    The recorder shall endorse upon a claim recorded as provided by section 33-932 the date and hour of reception, and such facts as are necessary...
  • 33-934 - Release of claim by injured person ineffective as to lienholder; action to enforce lien
    A. A release of claims on which a lien or assignment is given by section 33-931 or of any judgment on that claim is not...
  • 33-935 - Workers' compensation cases exempted
    The provisions of this article are not applicable to accidents or injuries within the purview of the workers' compensation law of this state.
  • 33-936 - Release of hospital lien; liability
    If any lien or assignment established by this article has been satisfied, within thirty days after satisfaction the lienholder or assignee shall issue a release...
  • 33-951 - Lien on baggage and property of guests
    Hotel, inn, boarding house, lodging house, apartment house and auto camp keepers shall have a lien upon the baggage and other property of their guests,...
  • 33-952 - Sale of property; notice
    A. When baggage or other property comes into the possession of a person entitled to a lien as provided by section 33-951 and remains unclaimed,...
  • 33-961 - Filing judgments for payment of money; certified copy of judgment; recording copy to perfect lien against real property; information statement
    A. A copy of the judgment of a court, certified by the clerk, shall be filed and recorded in the office of the county recorder...
  • 33-962 - Procedure for filing judgment of justice or municipal court; recording; lien
    A. The clerk of the superior court, upon presentation of a certified transcript of a judgment for more than fifteen dollars, exclusive of costs, given...
  • 33-963 - Procedure for recording judgment of federal court; lien
    An abstract of a judgment given by any court of record of the United States within this state shall be recorded in the manner provided...
  • 33-964 - Lien of judgment; duration; exemption of homestead; acknowledgment of satisfaction by judgment creditor
    A. Except as provided in sections 33-729 and 33-730, from and after the time of recording as provided in section 33-961, a judgment shall become...
  • 33-965 - Entry of reversal or remittitur upon judgment docket; affidavit
    When a judgment which has been docketed or recorded is reversed on appeal, and the judgment of reversal is filed, or a remittitur is filed,...
  • 33-966 - Superiority of lien for personal injury judgment against person operating railway
    A. Judgment against a person operating a railway, or a street railway for injury to any person or property in the operation of the railway...
  • 33-967 - Money judgment; information statement; amendment to recorded judgment
    A. In addition to the requirements prescribed by section 33-961, any judgment or decree or any renewal that requires the payment of money and that...
  • 33-968 - Erroneously identified property owner; lien; release
    A. If a recorded money judgment or a certified copy of a money judgment appears to create a judgment lien on the real property of...
  • 33-981 - Lien for labor; professional services or materials used in construction, alteration or repair of structures; preliminary twenty day notice; exceptions
    A. Except as provided in sections 33-1002 and 33-1003, every person who labors or furnishes professional services, materials, machinery, fixtures or tools in the construction,...
  • 33-982 - Claim of lien by assignee of contract or account for material furnished or labor performed
    An assignee of a contract or account for material furnished or labor performed may verify, file, record and enforce the contract as if he had...
  • 33-983 - Lien for improvements to city lots or other land
    A. A person who furnishes professional services or material or labors upon a lot in an incorporated city or town, or any parcel of land...
  • 33-984 - Lien for labor or materials furnished mill, factory or hoisting works
    Foundrymen, boilermakers, and other persons who labor or furnish materials for the construction, alteration, repair or operation of a mill, factory or hoisting works at...
  • 33-985 - Lien for labor or materials furnished domestic vessel
    Persons who furnish supplies or material or do repairs or perform labor for or on account of a domestic vessel owned wholly or in part...
  • 33-986 - Lien for labor in cutting wood, logs or ties
    Persons who cut or cord wood, cut, saw or skid logs, cut, saw, hew or pile ties at the request of the owner thereof, shall...
  • 33-987 - Lien for labor or materials furnished on waterways, highways, excavations or land
    A person who labors or furnishes labor or materials in the construction, alteration or repair of any canal, water ditch, flume, aqueduct or reservoir, bridge,...
  • 33-988 - Lien for labor or materials furnished railroad
    A person who labors or furnishes labor, teams, materials, machinery, fixtures or tools in the construction, repair or operation of a railroad, locomotive, car or...
  • 33-989 - Lien for labor or material furnished mines and mining claims; priority
    A. A person who labors or furnishes materials or merchandise of any kind, designed for or used in or upon a mine or mining claim,...
  • 33-990 - Posting of "no lien" notice by owner not operating mine; violation; classification
    33-990. Posting of "no lien" notice by owner not operating mine; violation; classification A. The provisions of section 33-989 shall not apply and the owner...
  • 33-991 - Lands to which liens extend; rural lands; city lots; subdivision lots; mining claims
    A. If the land upon which an improvement is made and labor or professional services have been performed lies outside of the limits of the...
  • 33-992 - Preference of liens over subsequent encumbrances; professional services liens
    A. The liens provided for in this article, except as provided in subsection B of this section or unless otherwise specifically provided, are preferred to...
  • 33-992.01 - Preliminary twenty day notice; definitions; content; election; waiver; service; single service; contract
    A. For the purposes of this section: 1. "Construction lender" means any mortgagee or beneficiary under a deed of trust lending funds all or a...
  • 33-992.02 - Proof of mailing of preliminary twenty day notice; receipt; affidavit
    Proof that the preliminary twenty day notice required by section 33-992.01 was given in accordance with section 33-992.01, subsection F shall be made as follows:...
  • 33-993 - Procedure to perfect lien; notice and claim of lien; service; recording; definitions
    A. In order to impress and secure the lien provided for in this article, every person claiming the benefits of this article, within one hundred...
  • 33-994 - Right of owner of property against which lien is claimed to withhold payment to original contractor; procedure
    Upon service of the notice and claim of lien, the owner may retain, out of the amount due or to become due the original contractor,...
  • 33-995 - Duty of contractor to defend action on claim of lien by person other than a contractor; rights of owner against contractor; other rights
    A. When a lien is recorded or notice given by any person other than a contractor, the contractor shall defend any action brought thereon. B....
  • 33-996 - Joinder of persons claiming liens; claimant as party defendant; intervention
    Lienors not contesting the claims of each other may join as plaintiffs, and when separate actions are commenced the court may consolidate them, and make...
  • 33-997 - Sale of property to satisfy lien
    No sale of property to satisfy a lien granted under the provisions of this article shall be made except upon judgment of foreclosure and order...
  • 33-998 - Limitation of action to foreclose lien; attorney fees
    A. A lien granted under the provisions of this article shall not continue for a longer period than six months after it is recorded, unless...
  • 33-999 - Right of lienholder to have land and improvements sold together or separately; right of purchaser to possession
    A. The person enforcing a lien granted under the provisions of this article may have the lot or land and improvements sold together, or he...
  • 33-1000 - Priority among mechanic's and materialman's liens; prorating proceeds of foreclosure sale
    A. Except as otherwise provided in section 33-992, the liens for work and labor done or professional services or material furnished, as provided for in...
  • 33-1001 - Priority of claims for current wages owed by owner of property under levy
    A. When a levy is made under execution, attachment or other similar writ, except when the writ is issued in an action under this article,...
  • 33-1002 - Definitions; inapplicability of certain liens to owner‑occupied dwelling; waiver void
    33-1002. Definitions; inapplicability of certain liens to owner-occupied dwelling; waiver void A. In this section: 1. "Dwelling" means real property upon which there has been...
  • 33-1003 - Payment bond in lieu of lien right; bond purposes and conditions; recording
    A. Every owner of land, including any person who has a legal or equitable interest therein, who enters a contract requiring any person to perform...
  • 33-1004 - Discharge of mechanic's liens; bond; limitations of actions; discharge of surety; judgment
    A. After perfection of a lien pursuant to this article, an owner, including any person who has a legal or equitable interest in the land...
  • 33-1005 - Payments made in trust
    Monies paid by or for an owner-occupant as defined in section 33-1002 to a contractor, as defined in section 32-1101, as payment for labor, professional...
  • 33-1006 - Release of mechanic's and materialman's liens; liability
    A. When any lien established by the provisions of this article has been satisfied, the lienholder shall, within twenty days after satisfaction, issue a release...
  • 33-1007 - Definition of professional services
    In this article, unless the context otherwise requires, "professional services" means architectural practice, engineering practice or land surveying practice as defined in section 32-101.
  • 33-1008 - Waiver of lien
    A. An owner or contractor by any term of their contract, or otherwise, may not waive or impair the claims or liens of other persons...
  • 33-1021 - Lien for labor or materials furnished on personal property; right to possess property
    When an article, implement, utensil or vehicle, except motor vehicles, is repaired or cleaned, glazed or washed, with labor, with or without material, by a...
  • 33-1021.01 - Dry cleaners' and launderers' lien; foreclosure
    A. When any garment, wearing apparel or other article is cleaned, pressed or washed by any dry cleaner or launderer, the dry cleaner or launderer...
  • 33-1022 - Garages; aircraft
    A. Proprietors of garages and repair and service stations shall have a lien upon motor vehicles of every kind and aircraft, and the parts and...
  • 33-1022.01 - Fabrication work; lien
    Persons who fabricate products from patterns, molds, tools, dies and all other equipment and material furnished them by a customer shall have a lien upon...
  • 33-1023 - Sale of property; disposal of proceeds
    A. Except as provided in section 33-1021.01, when possession of any property described in this article or any other personal property held under lien without...
  • 33-1031 - Applicability
    This article applies only to federal tax liens and to other federal liens, notices of which under any act of Congress or any regulation adopted...
  • 33-1032 - Place of filing or recording
    A. Notices of liens, certificates and other notices affecting federal tax liens or other federal liens shall be filed or recorded in accordance with this...
  • 33-1033 - Execution of notices and certificates
    Certification of notices of liens, certificates or other notices affecting federal liens by the secretary of the treasury of the United States or his delegate,...
  • 33-1034 - Filing or recording officer; duties
    A. If a notice of federal lien, a refiling of a notice of federal lien or a notice of revocation of any certificate described in...
  • 33-1035 - Fees
    The filing officer shall receive fees as provided by law and shall bill the district directors of internal revenue or other appropriate federal officials on...
  • 33-1051 - Definitions
    In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Bonded stop notice" means a stop notice that is given to any construction lender and that...
  • 33-1052 - Stop notice; defect in form
    A stop notice is not invalid by reason of any defect in form if it is sufficient to substantially inform the owner of the information...
  • 33-1053 - Applicability
    This section and sections 33-1054 through 33-1067 apply only to private work. Private work does not include dwellings of owner-occupants as defined in section 33-1002.
  • 33-1054 - Persons authorized; notice to owner; failure to serve notice after demand
    Any person entitled to record a claim of lien under article 6 of this chapter, other than the original contractor, may give to the owner...
  • 33-1055 - Persons authorized; election by construction lender to withhold monies; copy of bond; recovery limits
    A. Any person entitled to record a claim of lien under article 6 of this chapter may give to a construction lender a stop notice...
  • 33-1056 - Effective notice
    A. The stop notice shall be delivered to the owner personally or left at the owner's residence with a person of suitable age and discretion...
  • 33-1057 - Withholding of money by owner; payment bond
    A. On receipt of a stop notice pursuant to section 33-1054, the owner shall withhold from the original contractor or from any person acting under...
  • 33-1058 - Withholding monies by construction lenders; payment bond
    A. On receipt of a stop notice pursuant to section 33-1055, the construction lender may and on receipt of a bonded stop notice shall withhold...
  • 33-1059 - Assignment of monies; effect
    A. Whether made before or after a stop notice or bonded stop notice is given to a construction lender, no assignment by the owner or...
  • 33-1060 - Pro rata distribution of monies
    If monies withheld or required to be withheld pursuant to any stop notice or bonded stop notice are insufficient to pay in full the valid...
  • 33-1061 - False notice
    Any person who wilfully gives a false stop notice or bonded stop notice or wilfully includes in the notice any labor, professional services, materials, machinery,...
  • 33-1062 - Release of stop notice or bonded stop notice; surety bond
    A. An owner, a construction lender or any original contractor or subcontractor who disputes any stop notice or bonded stop notice may file with the...
  • 33-1063 - Commencement of actions; limitations
    A. An action against the owner or construction lender to enforce payment of the claim stated in the stop notice or bonded stop notice may...
  • 33-1064 - Dismissal or judgment
    On dismissal of an action to enforce a stop notice or bonded stop notice, unless expressly stated to be without prejudice, or on a judgment...
  • 33-1065 - Consolidation of actions
    Any person who has given stop notices or bonded stop notices may join in the same action, and when separate actions are commenced, the court...
  • 33-1066 - Attorney fees
    In any action against an owner or construction lender to enforce payment of a claim stated in a bonded stop notice, the prevailing party shall...
  • 33-1067 - Interest
    If the plaintiff is the prevailing party in any action against an owner or construction lender to enforce payment of a claim stated in a...
  • 33-1071 - Commercial real estate broker lien; definition
    A. Except as prescribed by subsection C, an employing real estate broker pursuant to title 32, chapter 20 has a lien against real property for...
  • 33-1072 - Lien attachment; notice of commercial real estate broker lien; notice to owner
    A. A lien pursuant to this article attaches to the subject real property when all of the following occur: 1. The broker produces a person...
  • 33-1073 - Contents of notice of lien; verification
    33-1073. Contents of notice of lien; verification A. The notice of commercial real estate broker lien shall include all of the following: 1. The name...
  • 33-1074 - oreclosure; limitation of action; attorney fees
    33-1074. Foreclosure; limitation of action; attorney fees A. A commercial real estate broker lien recorded pursuant to this article is enforceable by foreclosure action in...
  • 33-1075 - Satisfaction of lien; damages
    A. On satisfaction of any lien established pursuant to this article, the lienholder shall record a satisfaction of the lien within thirty days. The satisfaction...
  • 33-1076 - Discharge of commercial real estate broker's liens; bond; limitations of actions; discharge of surety; judgment
    A. After perfection of a lien pursuant to this article, an owner, including any person who has a legal or equitable interest in the land...
  • Last modified: February 20, 2012