Illinois Compiled Statutes 770 Liens: Article -

• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 0.01
  Short title. This Act may be cited as the Mechanics Lien Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 1
  Contractor defined; amount of lien; waiver of lien; attachment of lien; agreement to waive; when not enforceable. (a) Any person who shall by any contract...
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 1.1
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 87-361. Repealed by P.A. 94-627, eff. 1-1-06.)
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 1.2
  Rental equipment liens. In addition to persons who would otherwise have a lien under this Act, any person, whether contractor or subcontractor, who leases construction...
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 2
  Labor, services, material, fixtures, apparatus or machinery, forms or form work furnished by mistake. Any person furnishing labor, services, material, fixtures, apparatus or machinery, forms...
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 3
  Labor, services, material, fixtures, apparatus or machinery, forms or form work furnished for lands of married person; lands held by husband and wife. If any...
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 4
  When the owner of the land shall fail to pay the contractor moneys justly due him under the contract at the time when the...
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 5
  Statement of persons furnishing labor, services, material, fixtures, apparatus or machinery, forms or form work notice to owner of waiver; size of type. (a) It...
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 6
  In no event shall it be necessary to fix or stipulate in any contract a time for the completion or a time for payment in...
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 7
  Claim for lien; third parties; errors or overcharges; multiple buildings or lots. (a) No contractor shall be allowed to enforce such lien against or to...
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 8
  All liens or claims for lien which may arise or accrue under the terms of this act shall be assignable, and proceedings to enforce...
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 9
  If payment shall not be made to the contractor having a lien by virtue of this act of any amount due when the same...
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 10
  Suits may be instituted under the provisions of this act in favor of administrators or executors, and may be maintained against the representatives in...
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 11
  Averments in pleading; parties; dismissal; notice. (a) Any pleading asserting a claim for lien shall contain (i) a brief statement of the contract or contracts...
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 12
  The court shall permit amendments to any part of the pleadings, and may issue process, make all orders, requiring parties to appear, and requiring...
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 13
  Defendant shall answer as in other civil actions. (a) The owner may make any defense against the contractor by way of counter claim that he...
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 14
  In no case shall the want of preparation for trial of one claim delay the trial in respect to others, but trial shall be...
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 15
  Upon all questions arising between different contractors having liens under this act, no preference shall be given to him whose contract was made first,...
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 16
  No incumbrance upon land, created before or after the making of the contract for improvements under the provisions of this act, shall operate upon the...
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 17
  Costs. (a) The costs of proceedings as between all parties to the suit shall be taxed equitably against the losing party, and where taxed...
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 18
  Whatever right or estate such owner had in the land at the time of making the contract may be sold in the same manner...
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 19
  The court shall ascertain the amount due each lien creditor and shall direct the application of the proceeds of sale to be made to...
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 20
  Upon all sales under this Act the right of redemption shall exist in favor of the same persons, and may be made in the...
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 21
  Sub-contractor defined; lien of sub-contractor; notice; size of type; service of notice; amount of lien; default by contractor. (a) Subject to the provisions of Section...
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 21.01
  Failure of contractor to pay sub-contractor; fraud; penalty. Any contractor, or if the contractor is a corporation any officer or employee thereof, who with intent...
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 21.02
  Construction Trust Funds. (a) Money held in trust; trustees. Any owner, contractor, subcontractor, or supplier of any tier who requests or requires the execution and...
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 22
  Partners or joint contractors; sub-letting of contract; statement by sub-contractor; failure to provide; penalty. Whenever, after a contract has been made, the contractor shall associate...
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 23
  Liens against public funds. (a) For the purpose of this Section "contractor" includes any sub-contractor; "State" includes any department, board or commission thereof, or other...
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 24
  Written notice by sub-contractor; service; when notice not necessary; form of notice. (a) Sub-contractors, or parties furnishing labor, materials, fixtures, apparatus, machinery, or services, may...
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 25
  Notice to persons not found or not residing in county. (a) In all cases where the owner of record, his or her agent, architect, or...
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 26
  Claim for wages as laborer preferred. The claim of any person for wages under Sections 21 and 22 of this Act shall be a preferred...
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 27
  When the owner or his agent is notified as provided in this Act, he shall retain from any money due or to become due...
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 28
  Suits by laborers, materialmen or sub-contractors. If any money due to the laborers, materialmen, or sub-contractors be not paid within 10 days after his notice...
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 30
  Multiple liens; insufficient funds; hearing; judgment. If there are several liens under Sections 21 and 22 of this Act upon the same premises, and the...
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 31
  Should the contractor, for any cause, fail to complete his or her contract, any person entitled to a lien under this Act may file...
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 32
  Payments to contractor by owner. No payments to the contractor or to his order of any money or other considerations due or to become due...
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 34
  Notice to commence suit. (a) Upon written demand of the owner, lienor, or any person interested in the real estate, or their agent or attorney,...
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 35
  Satisfaction or release; recording; neglect; penalty. Whenever a claim for lien has been filed with the recorder of deeds, either by the contractor or sub-contractor,...
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 36
  Any owner, contractor, sub-contractor or other person who shall purchase materials on credit and represent at the time of purchase that the same are...
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 37
  Any architect, contractor, sub-contractor, materialman, or other person furnishing services, labor or material for the purpose of or in constructing, building, altering, repairing or...
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 38
  When claims for lien are filed pursuant to the provisions of Sections 7, 25 and 28, the Recorder shall affix thereto a certificate of...
• Illinois Mechanics Lien Act. - 770 ILCS 60, Section 39
  This act is and shall be liberally construed as a remedial act. (Source: Laws 1903, p. 230.)

Last modified: February 18, 2015