California Civil Code ARTICLE 3 - Distribution of Funds Withheld

• Section 9450.
  If funds withheld pursuant to a stop payment notice are insufficient to pay in full the claims of all persons who have given a stop...
• Section 9452.
  Nothing in this chapter impairs the right of a claimant to recover from the direct contractor or the contractor’s sureties in an action on a...
• Section 9454.
  A person that willfully gives a false stop payment notice to the public entity or that willfully includes in the notice work not provided for...
• Section 9456.
  (a) A stop payment notice takes priority over an assignment by a direct contractor of any amount due or to become due pursuant to a public...

Last modified: October 22, 2018