2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 376 STATUTORY LIENS 376.440 Lien on equipment, machinery and motors for work and supplies -- Filing of lien statement.
376.440 Lien on equipment, machinery and motors for work and supplies -- Filing
of lien statement.
(1) Any person engaged in the business of selling, repairing, or furnishing accessories,
or supplies for any kind of equipment or machinery, including motors, shall have a <br>lien on the equipment, machine, machinery, or motor, for the reasonable or agreed <br>charges for repairs, work done, accessories, parts, and supplies furnished for the <br>equipment, machine, machinery, or motor until the reasonable or agreed charge <br>therefor has been paid. The lien shall not be lost by the removal of the equipment, <br>machine, machinery or motor from the premises of the person performing labor, <br>repairing, or furnishing accessories, parts or supplies therefor, if the lien shall be <br>asserted within three (3) months by filing in the office of the county clerk a <br>statement showing the amount and cost of materials furnished or labor performed <br>on the equipment, machine, machinery, or motor. This statement shall be filed in <br>the office of the county clerk of the county in which the owner of the equipment, <br>machine, machinery, or motor resides, unless such owner be a nonresident, in which <br>event the lien statement shall be filed in the office of the county clerk of the county <br>in which such equipment, machine, machinery, or motor is at the time being kept or <br>used.
(2) The lien provided for in this section shall attach regardless of whether or not the
equipment, machine, machinery, motor, or motors, are ever upon the premises of or <br>in the possession of the person making the repairs, furnishing the parts, or the <br>supplies for such repairs.
Effective: June 17, 1978 <br>History: Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 384, sec. 505, effective June 17, 1978. -- Created
1954 Ky. Acts ch. 102, sec. 1, effective June 17, 1954.
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