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• Repealed - Mechanic's Lien (570.1 - 570.30) - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Building, Repairing, or Ornamenting Public Works; Bond of Contractor Required; Exceptions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.101
  When public buildings or other public works are about to be built, repaired, or ornamented under contract at the expense of the state, or...
• Notice by Subcontractor, Materialman or Laborer - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.102
  In the case of a subcontractor, he shall within 60 days after furnishing the last material or supplies or performing the last work covered...
• Bond of Contractor on Public Works; Execution, Sureties, Conditions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.103
  Such bond shall be executed by such contractor to the people of the state of Michigan in such amount and with such sureties as...
• Bond of Contractor on Public Works; Prosecution, Recovery - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.104
  Such bond may be prosecuted and a recovery had at any time within 1 year after the completion and acceptance of the project, by...
• Bond of Contractor on Public Works; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.105
  The words "materials" and "supplies" as used herein shall include coal, wood, form lumber, gasoline, kerosene and lubricating and fuel oils necessarily used in...
• Building Contract Fund; Status as a Trust Fund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.151
  In the building construction industry, the building contract fund paid by any person to a contractor, or by such person or contractor to a...
• Building Contract Fund; Fraudulent Detention or Use by Contractor or Subcontractor, Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.152
  Any contractor or subcontractor engaged in the building construction business, who, with intent to defraud, shall retain or use the proceeds or any part...
• Building Contract Fund; Evidence of Fraudulent Detention or Use - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.153
  The appropriation by a contractor, or any subcontractor, of any moneys paid to him for building operations before the payment by him of all...
• Lien of Mechanic, Artisan or Tradesman for Manufacturing of Goods or Keeping of Animals - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.185
  Whenever any person shall deliver to any mechanic, artisan, or tradesman, any materials or articles for the purpose of constructing in whole or in...
• Lien of Mechanic for Repair or Alteration of Goods - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.186
  When any person shall deliver to any mechanic, artizan or tradesman, any watch, clock, article of furniture or jewelry, implement, clothing or other article...
• Lien of Mechanic; Enforcement; Sale; Form of Notice, Proceeds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.187
  In either of the cases mentioned in the 2 preceding sections, if the owner of the property, materials, or stock so delivered, or the...
• Suit for Recovery of Charges; Commencement; Jurisdiction - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.188
  The person having such lien may commence a suit for the recovery of such charges in a court of competent jurisdiction against the person...
• Suit for Recovery of Charges; Proceedings in Case Summons Is Personally Served - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.189
  If such summons be returned personally served upon the defendant, the same proceedings shall thereupon be had, in all respects, as in other suits...
• Suit for Recovery of Charges; Proceedings in Case Defendant Cannot Be Found - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.190
  If the officer return upon such summons, that the defendant cannot be found within his county, the same proceedings shall be thereupon had, in...
• Suit for Recovery of Charges; Judgment and Execution - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.191
  If the plaintiff recover judgment in such suit, execution shall issue thereon in the same manner and with the like effect, as upon judgments...
• Application of Chapter - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.192
  The provisions of this chapter concerning liens upon personal property, and enforcing the same, shall apply to all cases of personal property on which...
• Additional Lien for Expense of Keeping Animals - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.193
  If the property upon which any such lien shall be enforced as provided in this chapter, consists of horses, cattle, sheep, swine, or other...
• Labor Lien on Property of Iron or Copper Mining Corporation; Precedence, Enforcement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.194
  Every person who shall furnish or perform any labor for any corporation, organized for the purpose of mining, smelting or manufacturing iron, copper, silver,...
• Labor Lien on Property of Coal, Shale or Clay Mining Corporation; Precedence, Enforcement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.201
  Every person who shall furnish or perform any labor for any corporation, organized for the purpose of mining coal, shale or clay, and every...
• Repealed - Lien for Cleaning, Dyeing, Pressing, Altering, or Storing Goods (570.211 - 570.217) - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Lien for Labor or Material for Oil or Gas Well or Pipe Line; Extent; Waiver by Agreement; Delivery of Materials; Additional Liens, Recording - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.251
  Any person, firm or corporation, who shall by any contract or contracts, express or implied or partly expressed and partly implied with the owner,...
• Lien for Labor or Material for Oil or Gas Well or Pipe Line; Contractors or Sub - Contractors - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.252
  Any person, firm or corporation who shall furnish any such material, machinery or supplies, as described in section 1 of this act, to a...
• Owner or Lessee May Retain Money to Pay Demands; Statement of Contractor; Protection of Owners - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.253
  The owner, part owner, or lessee may at any time retain from any monies due to the original contractor, an amount sufficient to pay...
• Statement of Lien; Contents, Verification; Recording With Register of Deeds, Fee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.254
  Every person, or his agent or attorney, whether contractor, sub-contractor, material man or laborer, who wishes to avail himself of the provisions of this...
• Statement of Lien; Service of Copy on Owner or Lessee, Proof, Posting - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.255
  Every person recording such statement or account as provided in the preceding section, except those persons contracting or dealing directly with the owner, part...
• Liens; Duration, Priority Over Other Interests, Subrogation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.256
  The several liens herein provided for shall continue for 1 year after such statement or account is recorded in the office of the register...
• Proceedings to Enforce Lien; Lis Pendens, Parties, Cross Bills, Practice and Procedure, Sale, Confirmation, Costs - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.257
  Proceedings to enforce such lien shall be by bill in chancery, under oath, and notice of lis pendens recorded in the office of the...
• Lien Not to Preclude Any Other Lawful Remedy - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.258
  The provisions of this act shall not preclude anyone entitled to a lien hereunder from pursuing any other remedy given by law for the...
• Lienholder to Execute Discharge Upon Payment of Debt; Recording With Register of Deeds, Fee; Discharge by Ex Parte Proceedings - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.259
  Upon the full payment of any indebtedness for which a claim for lien has been recorded under the provisions of this act, the party...
• Assignment or Waiver of Lien - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.260
  All liens or claims for liens which may arise or accrue under the terms of this act shall be assignable, and proceedings to enforce...
• Notice by Publication - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.261
  When any defendant resides out of the state, or is absent from the state, or concealed therein, or cannot be found by reason of...
• Liberal Construction - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.262
  This act is hereby declared to be a remedial statute and is to be construed liberally to secure the beneficial results, intents and purposes...
• Oil or Gas Wells and Pipe Lines; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.263
  For the purpose of this act the terms "owner, part owner or lessee" shall be construed to include all the interests, legal or equitable,...
• Declaration of Emergency - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.266
  An emergency is hereby declared by reason whereof it is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, safety, convenience and welfare that...
• Short Title - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.301
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "garage keeper's lien act". History: 1915, Act 312, Eff. Aug. 24, 1915 ;--...
• Repealed. 1998, Act 236, Imd. Eff. July 3, 1998. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.302
  As used in this act: (a) "Bureau" means the bureau of automotive regulation. (b) "Department" means the department of state. (c) "Garage keeper" means...
• Repealed. 1998, Act 236, Imd. Eff. July 3, 1998. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Garage Keeper; Attachment of Lien Upon Vehicle; Manner; Amount - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.303
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in this act, a garage keeper who, in pursuance of a contract that is expressed, implied, written, or unwritten,...
• Garage Keeper's Lien; Amounts Not Included; Storage Charge - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.304
  (1) A garage keeper's lien under section 3 shall not include an amount for labor and materials for any of the following if the...
• Garage Keeper's Lien; Enforcement; Sale of Vehicle At Public Sale - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.305
  (1) A lien under section 3 shall be enforced only as provided in this section. (2) If charges described in section 3 are not...
• Proceeds of Sale; Distribution; Order of Priority; Return of Remaining Proceeds to Vehicle Owner; Disposition of Unclaimed Money - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.306
  (1) After the amount of the lien under section 3 is paid to the garage keeper and the costs of the sale are deducted,...
• Failure to Comply With Act; Action by Owner or Lienholder - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.307
  An owner or lienholder who suffers damages because of a garage keeper's failure to comply with this act may bring an action in a...
• Applicability of Act to Warehouse Receipt, Bill of Lading, or Other Document of Title - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.308
  This act does not apply to a vehicle for which the garage keeper issues a warehouse receipt, bill of lading, or other document of
• Other Ordinance or State Law; Effect - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.309
  (1) In a municipality where there is in force a law or ordinance concerning the regulation and licensing of garages, a garage keeper is...
• False Statement; Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.310
  A person, agent, or employee of a garage keeper who knowingly makes a false statement on an application for a garage keeper's lien, the...
• Lien for Threshing, Pressing or Hulling - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.331
  Any owner, part owner or lessee of a hay press, threshing machine, huller or other similar machine who shall press, thresh, or hull any...
• Lien for Threshing, Pressing or Hulling; Statement of Lien, Contents, Filing; Waiver - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.332
  Any person or persons entitled to a lien under this act shall, within 20 days after the pressing, threshing or hulling is completed, file...
• Lien for Threshing, Pressing or Hulling; Duty of Register of Deeds, Fees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.333
  The register of deeds, upon presentation of such statement and notice of lien, shall file the same in his office in the same manner...
• Lien for Threshing, Pressing or Hulling; Certified Copy as Evidence, Effect - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.334
  A copy of any such statement and notice of lien as aforesaid, certified by the register of deeds, shall be received in evidence in...
• Suit for Recovery of Charges; Commencement; Jurisdiction - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.335
  The person having such lien may commence a suit for the recovery of such charges in a court of competent jurisdiction against the person...
• Suit for Recovery of Charges; Proceedings in Case of Personal Service - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.336
  If such summons be returned personally served upon the defendant, the same proceedings shall be had, in all respects, as in other suits commenced...
• Suit for Recovery of Charges; Proceedings in Case of No Personal Service - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.337
  If the officer return upon such summons, that the defendant cannot be found within his county, the same proceedings shall be thereupon had, in...
• Judgment; Execution - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.338
  If the plaintiff recover judgment in such suit, execution shall issue thereon in the same manner and with the like effect, as upon judgments...
• Violation of Act; Misdemeanor, Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.339
  Any person who shall thereafter upon demand, refuse to pay the amount due for such threshing or hulling, and who shall sell, secrete, or...
• Repealed - Horseshoer's Lien (570.351 - 570.363) - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Short Title - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.371
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Michigan marina and boatyard storage lien act".
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.372
  As used in this act: (a) "Boat" and "vessel" mean boat and vessel as those words are defined in sections 80101 and 80104 of...
• Possessory Lien on Stored Property - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.373
  (1) A facility owner has a possessory lien on property stored at that facility for storage, rent, labor, materials, supplies, and other charges and...
• Notice of Lien - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.374
  (1) A facility owner shall notify a property owner and all prior lienholders of the lien created in this act before enforcing the lien....
• Enforcement of Lien - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.375
  (1) A facility owner shall enforce a lien created in this act only if the facility owner has notified the property owner and all...
• New Title or Registration; Issuance by Secretary of State - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.376
  The secretary of state shall issue a new title or registration to the purchaser of property at a sale conducted pursuant to section 5.
• Sale of Documented Vessel; Satisfaction of Requirements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.377
  If a documented vessel is sold pursuant to this act, the facility owner shall satisfy the United States coast guard requirements for passage of...
• Termination of Lien - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.378
  A lien under this act shall terminate and a facility owner shall immediately cease enforcement of actions brought under this act if either of...
• Inconsistent Act Provisions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.379
  If a provision of this act is inconsistent with a provision of 1915 PA 312, MCL 570.301 to 570.309, then the provision of this...
• Repeal; Saving Clause - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.401
  That chapter 122 of the Revised Statutes of 1846, and an act entitled "An act to amend an act to regulate proceedings in the...
• Liens Upon Certain Watercraft for Certain Debts - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.402
  Every watercraft of above 5 tons burthen, used, or intended to be used, in navigating the waters of this state, shall be subject to...
• Complaint; Filing, Jurisdiction of Courts in Certain Counties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.403
  Any person claiming to have any such lien as is specified in the preceding sections may file a complaint, giving security for costs as...
• Warrant, Summons; Issuance, Contents, Return Date - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.404
  Upon filing such complaint, the clerk shall enter the same in a separate calendar to be kept for that purpose, and shall issue a...
• Warrant; Execution by Sheriff - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.405
  The sheriff to whom such warrant shall be directed and delivered shall forthwith execute the same, and shall keep the water-craft, and other property...
• Warrant; Return - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.406
  Such sheriff shall also, within 10 days after such seizure, make a return to the court who issued the warrant, stating therein, particularly, his...
• Warrant; Number Against Same Craft, Limitation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.407
  Whenever any such warrant shall be issued, no other warrant shall issue against the said water-craft unless the first warrant be suspended. History: 1864,...
• Notice on Return of Warrant; Publication - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.408
  Upon return being made to such warrant, unless the vessel has been bonded, as hereinafter provided, the clerk shall immediately cause the notice hereinafter...
• Warrant; Contents - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.409
  Such notice shall contain the names of the complainant, of the water-craft, the port to which she belongs, if known, and a brief statement...
• Intervening Complaints; Rights, Summons - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.410
  Any person having any interest in, or claim against the water-craft seized may intervene to protect such interest or collect such claim by filing...
• Intervening Complaints; Time for Filing - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.411
  Intervening complaints may be filed at any time before the sale of the water-craft, as hereinafter provided; and after sale under judgment or decree,...
• Liens Not Filed Before Sale; Cessation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.412
  All liens upon any water-craft, which shall not be filed hereunder, before sale under decree or judgment, as hereinafter provided, shall cease. History: 1864,...
• Writ of Restitution; Application, Issuance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.413
  The master or any person interested in such water-craft, so seized as aforesaid may at any time before judgment or decree of sale shall...
• Bond on Restitution; Conditions, Sureties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.414
  Such person shall execute and file with the clerk a bond to the parties having previously filed complaints, in a penalty at least double...
• Bond on Restitution; Notice of Application; Sureties, Justification and Examination - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.415
  Upon application to the clerk to bond, as aforesaid, notice thereof shall be given to the attorney of the complainants, of at least 3...
• Motion for Additional Security - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.416
  If such complainant shall at any time become satisfied that his security has become imperiled, he may by motion founded upon affidavit filed, and...
• Order of Appraisement; Issuance of Writ of Restitution; Court Order for Sale to Prevent Loss - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.417
  If any party in interest so elect, in place of bonding as aforesaid, he may apply to the court or judge thereof upon like...
• Writ of Restitution; Issuance by Clerk Upon Receipt of Security, Discharge From Lien - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.418
  Upon receiving a bond or deposit as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the clerk to issue a writ of restitution, directing the...
• Entry of Appearance; Notice, Default - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.419
  Within 14 days after the return day of the summons, if personally served, or if not served then within the time prescribed in the...
• Answer or Demurrer; Time for Filing, Effect of Answer - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.420
  Within 10 days after service of a copy of complaint unless on cause shown, further time shall be allowed by the circuit judge, or...
• Interrogation; Appended to Pleadings, Filing; Answer - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.421
  Any party complaining or defending may append to the complaint or answer, as the case may be, any pertinent interrogatories, or upon such motion...
• Pleadings Subsequent to Answer; Amended Complaint - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.422
  There shall be no pleadings subsequent to the answer, but within 10 days after filing and service of answer, or demurrer, the complainant or...
• Exceptions to Answer - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.423
  Complainant, or intervenor, may except to the answer, and either party may except to answer to interrogatories, for irrelevancy, or want of fullness, distinctness,...
• Trial or Hearing; Notice - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.424
  Notice of trial or hearing may be for any day in term, and shall be of 10 days, exclusive of both day of service...
• Trial or Hearing; Jury Trial, Demand - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.425
  The trial or hearing shall be by the court without a jury, unless a jury be demanded by either party, by filing the demand...
• Evidence; Taking by Attorney or Commissioner, Report to Court - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.426
  The court may, by special order, refer any matter arising in the progress of the cause, to any attorney or circuit court commissioner, to...
• Admiralty Principles; Applicability - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.427
  All cases of general average, salvage and collision, and all cases relating to sailors' wages, or to the employment of seamen, arising under this...
• Judgment for Complainant; in Personna - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.428
  If, upon the trial or hearing, judgment or decree shall pass for complainant, and the water-craft has been discharged from custody, as herein provided,...
• Judgment for Complainant; in Rem - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.429
  In case the water-craft has not been discharged from custody, the judgment or decree shall be in form against the water-craft, with an additional...
• Sale of Craft; Writ - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.430
  The clerk shall thereupon issue a writ of sale commanding the sheriff to sell such water-craft as directed in the judgment or decree, and...
• Sale of Craft; Duty of Sheriff - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.431
  It shall be the duty of the sheriff, upon receiving the amount of the bid from the purchaser, or in case the purchaser is...
• Sale of Craft; Bill of Sale, Contents, Use as Evidence, Effect on Title - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.432
  A copy of the last enrollment, if any, of such watercraft, shall be recited in the bill of sale, if such copy can be...
• Sale of Craft; Distribution of Proceeds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.433
  The sum delivered by the sheriff, to the clerk as aforesaid, shall be distributed by the court, or by the circuit judge at chambers,...
• Sale of Craft; Distribution of Surplus - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.434
  Any portion of the sum so paid by the sheriff to the clerk, or of a deposit remaining after such distribution as aforesaid shall...
• Sale of Craft; Payment of Claims Based on Subsequent Decree or Appeal - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.435
  In case the sum for which the water-craft is sold, is sufficient to pay all the claims filed before sale, with costs thereon, the...
• Appeal to Supreme Court; Claim, Bond - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.436
  Any party complaining or defending, who may think himself aggrieved by the final decree or judgment of the court, may appeal therefrom to the...
• Appeal to Supreme Court; Transcript of Record - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.437
  Upon such appeal being perfected, it shall be the duty of the clerk to prepare a transcript of the pleadings, and the judgment or...
• Appeal to Supreme Court; Hearing De Novo - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.438
  The hearing in the supreme court shall be de novo upon such transcript and depositions, and further testimony taken as provided in the next...
• Appeal to Supreme Court; Jurisdiction, Acquisition, Taking of Testimony - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.439
  The causes shall be considered as in the supreme court, from the perfecting of the appeal; and at any time within 60 days thereafter,...
• Appeal to Supreme Court; Order - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.440
  The supreme court shall hear and determine such appeal, and shall have power to reverse, affirm or modify the judgment or decree of the...
• Appeal to Supreme Court; Judgment on Order - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.441
  Upon filing a certified copy of the order of the supreme court in the court below, judgment shall be entered in accordance therewith, against...
• Fees; Clerk, Sheriff, Attorney - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.442
  The fees of the clerk and sheriff, shall be the same as now provided by law, in personal actions, in the circuit court, as...
• Rules of Practice - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.443
  The supreme court may make any rules deemed necessary for the regulation of proceedings under this act, not conflicting with any of its provisions....
• Proceedings Upon Cases Arising in Other States - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.444
  In cases where by the general maritime law or laws of any other of the United States, now or hereafter to be passed, liens...
• Enforcement of Lien; Time Limitation, Effect of Bona Fide Purchase of Craft - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.445
  Liens may be enforced under this act at any time within 6 years from their origin: Provided, That no lien shall be enforced against...
• Costs; Security; Taxation, Appeal - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.446
  The complainant and intervenors shall, at the time of filing their complaints, file security for costs to the satisfaction of the clerk; and the...
• Proceedings and Practice; Depositions, Writs, Costs - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.447
  The proceedings and practice under this act shall be the same as in personal actions at law except as herein otherwise provided so far...
• Record of Proceedings; Fee for Certifying Copies - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.448
  The proceedings under this act shall be deemed matters of record, but the same shall not be required to be recorded at large, but...
• Clerk of Recorder's Court; Bond - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.449
  The clerk of the recorder's court of the city of Detroit, before performing any duties under this act, shall file with the city clerk,...
• Repealed - Lien on Inventory (570.501 - 570.512) - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Short Title - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.521
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "self-service storage facility act".
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.522
  As used in this act: (a) "Active duty" means active duty pursuant to an executive order of the president of the United States, an...
• Lien; Attachment; Priority; Written Notice - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.523
  (1) The owner of a self-service storage facility or a self-contained storage unit and the heirs, personal representatives, successors, and assignees of the owner...
• Denial of Access Upon Nonpayment of Rent; Disclosure of Nontenant Occupant; Tenant as Service Member Who Is Transferred or Deployed - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.524
  (1) Upon the failure of a tenant to pay the rent for the storage space or unit when it becomes due, the owner may,...
• Enforcement of Lien - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.525
  (1) An owner's lien under section 3 shall be enforced only as provided in this section. (2) The tenant and any occupant designated by...
• Action for Damages - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.526
  (1) A tenant who suffers damages because of an owner's failure to comply with this act may bring an action in a court of...
• Applicability of Act - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.527
  This act does not apply to personal property for which the owner issues a warehouse receipt, bill of lading, or other document of title....
• Short Title - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.541
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "special tools lien act".
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.542
  For purposes of this act: (a) "Customer" means a person who causes a special tool builder to design, develop, manufacture, assemble for sale, or...
• Special Tools; Unclaimed Possession; Transfer of Rights From Customer to End User; Destruction - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.543
  Unless otherwise agreed in writing, if a customer does not claim possession of a special tool from the end user within 3 years from...
• Transfer of Rights to End User; Notice; Waiting Period - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.545
  After the expiration of the 3-year period set forth in section 3, if an end user chooses to have all rights, title, and interest...
• Return Receipt of Notice; Possession Unclaimed; Transfer - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.547
  If a customer does not claim possession of the special tool within 120 days after the date the end user receives the return receipt...
• Retroactive Application of Waiting Period - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.549
  The 3-year waiting period provided in section 3 shall apply retroactively in the case of a special tool in the possession of an end...
• Applicability and Construction of Mcl 570.543, 570.545, 570.547, and 570.549 - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.551
  Sections 3, 5, 7, and 9 shall not apply if an end user retains title to and possession of a special tool. Sections 3,...
• Lien; Possession - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.553
  An end user has a lien, dependent on possession, on any special tool in the end user's possession belonging to a customer for the...
• Enforcement of Lien; Notice - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.555
  Before enforcing a lien granted to an end user under section 13, notice in writing shall be given to the customer, delivered personally or...
• Sale of Special Tool At Public Auction; Conditions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.557
  If the end user has not been paid the amount due within 90 days after the notice has been received by the customer provided...
• Sale of Special Tool At Public Auction; Notice; Information; Notice Nondeliverable; Dispute - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.559
  (1) Before an end user may sell the special tool, the end user shall notify, by registered mail, return receipt requested, the customer and...
• Payment of Proceeds to Prior Lienholder; Payment of Amount to End User Possessing Lien or to Customer - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.561
  (1) If the sale is for a sum greater than the amount of the lien, the proceeds shall first be paid to the prior...
• Information Recorded by Special Tool Builder; Filing Financial Statement; Constructive Notice of Lien on Special Tool; Attachment; Duration of Lien; Priority - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.563
  (1) A special tool builder shall permanently record on every special tool that the special tool builder fabricates, repairs, or modifies the special tool...
• Enforcement of Lien; Notice - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.565
  To enforce a lien that attaches under section 23, the special tool builder shall give notice of the lien in writing to the customer...
• Rights of Possession - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.567
  Subject to section 29, if the special tool builder has not been paid the amount claimed in the notice required under section 25 within...
• Sale of Special Tool With Lien Asserted - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.569
  (1) Before a special tool builder may sell a special tool for which a lien is claimed and for which the required notice has...
• Sale of Special Tool; Use of Excess Proceeds; Prohibition - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.571
  (1) If the proceeds of the sale are greater than the amount of the lien, the proceeds shall first be paid to the special...
• Short Title - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.581
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "commercial real estate broker's lien act".
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.582
  As used in this act: (a) "Buyer" means a purchaser or lessee of a legal or equitable interest in real estate. (b) "Claim of...
• Commercial Real Estate Broker's Lien; Availability - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.583
  A commercial real estate broker's lien is only available to an individual licensed as a real estate broker under article 25 of the occupational...
• Lien; Attachment; Conditions; Recording; Time of Filing; Contents of Claim; Form; Mailing; Claim of Lien as Void and Unenforceable; Priority of Prior - Recorded Lien or Mortgage; "Lease" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.584
  (1) A commercial real estate broker's lien attaches to commercial real estate in favor of a real estate broker if all of the following...
• Escrow Account; Establishment to Satisfy Lien; Release - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.585
  (1) If a claim of lien recorded under section 4 would otherwise prevent the closing of a transaction involving commercial real estate, the parties...
• Action to Enforce Lien; Complaint - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.586
  (1) A person claiming a commercial real estate broker's lien may bring an action to enforce the lien in the circuit court for the...
• Commencement of Action; Time Period - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.587
  (1) An action under section 6 shall be commenced within 1 year after the date the commercial real estate broker's lien attaches. (2) Failure...
• Sale of Interest in Commercial Real Estate; Court Order; Order of Foreclosure; Period of Redemption; Order of Deficiency Judgment; Costs - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.588
  (1) If the court in an action under section 6 finds that the plaintiff is entitled to the commercial real estate lien and that...
• Written Demand on Behalf of Owner of Commercial Real Estate; Service - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.589
  A written demand on behalf of the owner of commercial real estate may be served on a person claiming a commercial real estate broker's...
• Condition Prohibiting Compensation; Release of Lien - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.590
  If a claim of lien has been recorded under this act and a condition occurs that prohibits the real estate broker from receiving compensation...
• Payment of Claim or Failure to Commence Action; Release of Lien - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.591
  If a claim of lien recorded under this act has been paid, or if an action to enforce the lien has not been commenced...
• Partial Payment of Lien Claim; Partial Satisfaction and Release of Lien; Form - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.592
  (1) If a claim of lien recorded under this act has been partially paid, the real estate broker shall provide a partial satisfaction and...
• Priority of Subsequently Recorded Mortgage; Condition - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.593
  A subsequently recorded mortgage has priority over a commercial real estate broker's lien if the mortgagee did not have actual or constructive knowledge of...
• Written Commission Agreement Signed After Effective Date of Act; Applicability - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.594
  This act applies to a written commission agreement signed after the effective date of this act.
• Short Title - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.1101
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "construction lien act".
• Meanings of Words and Phrases - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.1102
  For the purposes of this act, the words and phrases defined in sections 103 to 106 have the meanings ascribed to them in those
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.1103
  (1) "Actual physical improvement" means the actual physical change in, or alteration of, real property as a result of labor provided, pursuant to a...
• Additional Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.1104
  (1) "Court" means the circuit court in which an action to enforce a construction lien through foreclosure is pending. (2) "Designee" means the person...
• Additional Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.1105
  (1) "Lessee" means a person, other than the owner, who holds an interest, other than a security interest, in real property. (2) "Lien claimant"...
• Additional Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.1106
  (1) "Person" means an individual, corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship, association, other legal entity, or any combination thereof. (2) "Project" means the aggregate of improvements...
• Construction Lien Generally - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.1107
  (1) Each contractor, subcontractor, supplier, or laborer who provides an improvement to real property has a construction lien upon the interest of the owner...
• Physical Improvements to Real Property; Notice of Commencement; Form; Recording; Contents of Notice; Blank Notice of Furnishing; Incorrect Information in Notice; Providing Copy of Notice and Blank Notice of Furnishing Form to Subcontractor, Supplier, or Laborer Upon Request; Posting Copy of Notice; Failure of Owner, Lessee, or Designee to Record, Provide, or Post Required Notice; Failure of Contractor or Subcontractor to Provide Notice; Section Inapplicable to Residential Structure Improvement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.1108
  (1) Before the commencement of any actual physical improvements to real property, the owner or lessee contracting for the improvements shall record in the...
• Improvement to Residential Structure; Notice of Commencement; Contents of Notice; Blank Notice of Furnishing; Incorrect Information in Notice; Providing Copy of Notice and Blank Notice of Furnishing to Contractor, Subcontractor, Supplier, or Laborer Upon Request; Posting Copy of Notice; Failure of Owner, Lessee, or Designee to Provide or Post Notice; Failure of Contractor or Subcontractor to Provide Notice and Name and Address of Owner or Lessee; Liability to Lien Claimant; Section Applicable to Residential Structure Improvement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.1108a
  (1) An owner or lessee contracting for an improvement to a residential structure shall prepare and provide a notice of commencement to a contractor,...
• Subcontractor, Supplier, or Laborer Contracting to Provide Improvement to Real Property; Service of Notice of Furnishing; Form of Notice; Effect of Failure by Lien Claimant to Provide Notice Within Time Specified; Failure of Laborer to Provide Notice of Furnishing; Authorization of Agent by Laborers to Prepare and Serve Notice - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.1109
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in sections 108, 108a, and 301, a subcontractor or supplier who contracts to provide an improvement to real property...
• Sworn Statement by Contractor or Subcontractor; Contents; Form; Notice of Receipt; Withholding From Contractor or Subcontractor Amount Due Subcontractors, Suppliers, Laborers, or Lien Claimants; Direct Payments to Lien Claimants; Notice; Itemized Statement; Reliance on Sworn Statement to Avoid Claim; Failure of Contractor or Subcontractor to Provide Sworn Statement to Owner or Lessee Prior to Recording Claim of Lien; Giving False Sworn Statement to Owner or Lessee as Crime; Total Amount; Prior Convictions; Prohibited Use - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.1110
  (1) A contractor shall provide a sworn statement to the owner or lessee in each of the following circumstances: (a) When payment is due...
• Claim of Lien; Recording; Validity; Form; Assignment; Statement; Proof of Service of Notice of Furnishing; Serving Copy of Claim of Lien and Recorded Proof of Service on Designee, Owner, or Lessee; Claim of Lien of More Than 1 Laborer; Consideration by Court - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.1111
  (1) Notwithstanding section 109, the right of a contractor, subcontractor, laborer, or supplier to a construction lien created by this act shall cease to...
• Endorsing and Indexing Instrument by Register of Deeds; Recording Fee; Constructive Notice - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.1112
  (1) If a notice of commencement, claim of lien, certificate of discharge of lien, or a certificate of a county clerk that no proceedings...
• Making Available to Lien Claimant Copy of Contract and Statement of Amount Due and Unpaid; Liability of Owner or Lessee; Providing to Owner, Lessee, or Designee Statement of Labor and Material Furnished; Liability of Lien Claimant Failing to Provide Statement; Honoring Request for Payment by Lien Claimant - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.1113
  (1) An owner or lessee who contracts for an improvement, upon receipt of a written demand by a lien claimant, shall make available for...
• Construction Lien Upon Interest of Owner or Lessee in Residential Structure; Providing Improvement Pursuant to Written Contract Required; Statement; Contents - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.1114
  A contractor does not have a right to a construction lien on the interest of an owner or lessee in a residential structure unless...
• Construction Lien Recorded by Unlicensed Person - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.1114a
  (1) The owner of residential property on which a construction lien has been recorded by a person who was not licensed as described in...
• Waiver of Construction Lien - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.1115
  (1) A person shall not require, as part of any contract for an improvement, that the right to a construction lien be waived in...
• Claim of Lien; Vacation and Discharge; Bond; Penal Sum; Filing; Notification of Lien Claimant; Objection to Sufficiency of Surety; Appearance by Surety; Approval of Bond; Certificate; Recordation; Discharge of Claim of Lien and Notice of Lis Pendens; Action by Obligee; Court Order or Other Relief - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.1116
  (1) The claim of lien of a contractor, subcontractor, supplier, or laborer may at any time be vacated and discharged if a bond, with...
• Action for Enforcement of Construction Lien Through Foreclosure; Notice of Lis Pendens; Agent Appointed to Represent Laborers; Parties; Action on Contract by Lien Claimant; Enforcement of Lien by Cross - Claim or Counterclaim Where Lien Claimant Party; Sworn Statement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.1117
  (1) Proceedings for the enforcement of a construction lien and the foreclosure of any interests subject to the construction lien shall not be brought...
• Action to Enforce Construction Lien Through Foreclosure; Circuit Court; Equitable Nature of Action; Enforcement of Lien by Cross - Claim or Counterclaim Filed in Pending Action; Duties of Court; Attorneys' Fees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.1118
  (1) An action to enforce a construction lien through foreclosure shall be brought in the circuit court for the county where the real property...
• Attachment of Claim to Residential Structure; Affidavit; Rebuttable Presumption of Payment by Owner or Lessee to Contractor - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.1118a
  (1) A claim of construction lien does not attach to a residential structure, to the extent payments have been made, if the owner or...
• Claims of Lien Having Equal Priority; Priority of Construction Lien Over Garnishments and Over Other Interests, Liens, or Encumbrances; Attachment; Effect of Recording; Priority of Recorded Mortgage, Lien, Encumbrance, or Other Interest Over Construction Lien; Advances; Retainage - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.1119
  (1) Except as otherwise provided by subsection (4), as between parties entitled to claim construction liens under this act, their claims of lien shall...
• Failure of Owner or Lessee to Perform Contract; Compensation and Additional Damages - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.1120
  If a lien claimant, by reason of the failure of an owner or lessee to perform the contract, and without fault on the part...
• Judgment of Foreclosure; Sale of Real Property or Improvement; Satisfaction of Lien From Rents, Profits, and Income; Adding Tax and Insurance Premium Payments; Affidavit; Redemption Period; Conduct of Sale; Right, Title, and Interest Vested in Grantee; Final Order; Deficiency Judgment; Surplus; Bringing Sale Proceeds Into Court; Redemption - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.1121
  (1) If the court finds that a lien claimant is entitled to a construction lien upon the real property to which he or she...
• Appointing Receiver in Action to Enforce Construction Lien Through Foreclosure or in Action to Foreclose Mortgage; Petition; Motion; Finding; Appointment; Nominations by Mortgagee and Lien Claimant; Fiduciary Responsibility; Appointment of Receiver for Residential Structure or Certain Apartment Buildings Prohibited; Power of Receiver - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.1122
  (1) If the improvement to the real property is not completed as of the date of commencement of an action in which enforcement of...
• Petition by Receiver for Authority to Complete Construction of Improvements, Borrow Money, Grant Security, or Sell Real Property Under Foreclosure; Sale; Redemption Period; Purchase of Real Property by Lien Claimant or Mortgagee; Right, Title, and Interest Vested in Grantee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.1123
  (1) The receiver may petition the court for authority to complete construction of improvements to the real property in full or in part, to...
• Final Account of Receiver; Final Order Directing Distribution of Assets; Order of Priority; Deficiency Judgment; Notice of Hearing - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.1124
  (1) Upon the completion of the sale of the real property, the receiver shall prepare and submit a final account for examination and approval...
• Assignability of Construction Lien; Powers and Obligations of Assignee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.1125
  A construction lien which arises under this act is assignable. Proceedings for the enforcement of the lien may be maintained by, and in the...
• Construction Lien Concerning Condominium; Limitations; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.1126
  (1) A construction lien, concerning a condominium, arising under this act is subject to the following limitations: (a) Except as otherwise provided in this...
• Full Payment of Claim of Lien; Certificate; Discontinuance or Dismissal of Action to Enforce Lien Through Foreclosure and to Discharge Notice of Lis Pendens; Documents; Providing Discharges of Lien and Other Documents - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.1127
  (1) When any claim of lien has been fully paid, the lien claimant shall deliver to the owner, lessee, or other person making payment...
• Failure to Commence Proceedings to Enforce Lien Within Time Provided by Law; Certificate; Recording; Affidavit Showing Time Statement or Claim of Lien Recorded - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.1128
  If any statement or claim of lien has been recorded in the office of a register of deeds, and the time within which proceedings...
• Repealed. 1010, Act 147, Imd. Eff. Aug. 23, 2010. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Laws Controlling Rights to Lien and Construction Lien; Requesting Statement of Date of Owner's First Contract With Contractor; Response; Effect of Failure to Respond to Request; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.1301
  (1) With respect to residential structures, this act shall control all rights to a construction lien arising from any project for which the contracting...
• Construction of Act - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.1302
  (1) This act is declared to be a remedial statute, and shall be liberally construed to secure the beneficial results, intents, and purposes of...
• Repealed. 2010, Act 147, Imd. Eff. Aug. 23, 2010. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Effective Date of Act; Effective Date of Mcl 570.1303 - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 570.1305
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), this act shall take effect January 1, 1982. (2) Section 303 takes effect March 1, 1982. History:...

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