Arkansas Code Title 18, Subtitle 4, Chapter 44, Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
- § 18-44-101 - Liens on Buildings, Land, or Boats.
(a) Every contractor, subcontractor, or material supplier as defined in § 18-44-107 who supplies labor, services, material, fixtures, engines, boilers, or machinery in the...
- § 18-44-102 - Entire Land Subject to Lien.
The entire land, to the extent stated in § 18-44-101, upon which any building, erection, or other improvement is situated including that part of...
- § 18-44-103 - Improvements on Leased Land.
(a) Every building or other improvement erected or materials furnished, according to the provisions of this subchapter, on leased lots or lands shall be...
- § 18-44-104 - Liens for Drain Pipe or Tile.
(a) Every contractor, subcontractor, or material supplier who shall furnish to any landowner any soil or drain pipe or tile for drainage of his...
- § 18-44-105 - Lien of Architect, Engineer, Surveyor, Appraiser, Landscaper, Abstractor, or Title Insurance Agent.
(a) Every architect, engineer, surveyor, appraiser, landscaper, abstractor, or title insurance agent who shall do or perform any architectural, engineering, surveying, appraisal, landscaping, or...
- § 18-44-106 - "Owner" Defined.
As used in this subchapter, the "owner" of property shall include the owner of the legal title to property and any person, including all...
- § 18-44-107 - Subcontractors -- Definitions.
As used in this subchapter: (1) "Contractor" means any person who contracts orally or in writing directly with a person holding an interest in...
- § 18-44-108 - Refusal to List Parties Doing Work or Furnishing Materials.
(a) The owner or proprietor, material supplier, subcontractor, or anyone interested as mortgagee or trustee in the real estate upon which improvements are made...
- § 18-44-109 - Unlawful to Use Materials Other Than As Designated.
Any contractor or subcontractor who shall purchase materials on credit and represent at the time of purchase that they are to be used in...
- § 18-44-110 - Preference Over Prior Liens -- Exception.
(a) (1) The liens for labor performed or material or fixtures furnished, as provided for in this subchapter, shall have equal priority toward each...
- § 18-44-111, 18-44-112 - [Repealed.]
- § 18-44-113 - Assignment of Liens.
(a) The lien given in this subchapter shall be transferable and assignable, but it shall not be enforced against the owner of the ground...
- § 18-44-114 - Notice and Service Generally.
(a) Every person who may wish to avail himself or herself of the benefit of the provisions of this subchapter shall give ten (10)...
- § 18-44-115 - Notice to Owner by Contractor -- Definitions.
(a) (1) No lien upon residential real estate containing four (4) or fewer units may be acquired by virtue of this subchapter unless the...
- § 18-44-116 - Service on Nonresident or Absconder.
(a) (1) Whenever property is sought to be charged with a lien under this subchapter, the notice may be filed with the recorder of...
- § 18-44-117 - Filing of Lien.
(a) (1) It shall be the duty of every person who wishes to avail himself or herself of the provisions of this subchapter to...
- § 18-44-118 - Filing of Bond in Contest of Lien.
(a) (1) In the event any person claiming a lien for labor or materials upon any property shall file such a lien within the...
- § 18-44-119 - Limitation of Actions.
(a) All actions under this subchapter shall be commenced within fifteen (15) months after filing the lien and prosecuted without unnecessary delay to final...
- § 18-44-120, 18-44-121 - [Repealed.]
- § 18-44-122 - Contents of Complaint.
The complaint, among other things, shall allege the facts necessary for securing a lien under this subchapter and shall contain a description of the...
- § 18-44-123 - Parties to Suits.
In all suits under this subchapter, the parties to the contract and all other persons interested in the controversy and in the property charged...
- § 18-44-124 - Contractor to Defend Actions on Liens by Third Persons -- Liability.
(a) In all cases in which a lien shall be filed under the provisions of this subchapter by any person other than a contractor,...
- § 18-44-125 - Court Orders.
The court shall make orders in the case as will protect and enforce the rights of all interested therein.
- § 18-44-126 - Warning Order for Nonresident or Absconding Owners.
Whenever the owner of an erection or improvement, or of land on which an erection or improvement is put, or the owner of any...
- § 18-44-127 - Trial and Judgment.
(a) The court shall ascertain by a fair trial, in the usual way, the amount of the indebtedness for which the lien is prosecuted...
- § 18-44-128 - Attorney's Fee.
(a) When any contractor, subcontractor, laborer, or material supplier who has filed a lien, as provided for in this chapter, gives notice thereof to...
- § 18-44-129, 18-44-130 - [Repealed.]
- § 18-44-131 - Duty to Enter Satisfaction.
(a) Whenever any indebtedness which is a lien on any real estate, erection, building, or other improvement is paid and satisfied, it shall be...
- § 18-44-132 - Penalty for Failure to Discharge Lien After Payment.
(a) It shall be unlawful for any contractor, subcontractor, or other person who has performed work or furnished materials for the improvement of any...
- § 18-44-133, 18-44-134 - [Repealed.]
- § 18-44-135 - Jointly Owned Property.
In the event that property is jointly owned, the signature of one (1) of the owners is sufficient for the purposes of this chapter.
Last modified: November 15, 2016