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2014 Virginia Code
Title 43 - Mechanics' and Certain Other Liens
Chapter 1. MECHANICS' AND MATERIALMEN'S LIENS- § 43-1. Definitions
- § 43-2. Structures, materials, etc., deemed permanently annexed to freehold
- § 43-3. Lien for work done and materials furnished; waiver of right to file or enforce lien
- § 43-4. Perfection of lien by general contractor; recordation and notice
- § 43-4.01. Posting of building permit; identification of mechanics' lien agent in building permit; notice to mechanics' lien agent; effect of notice
- § 43-4.1. Liens to be recorded in deed books and indexed in general index of deeds
- § 43-5. Sufficiency of memorandum and affidavit required by § 43-4
- § 43-6. Repealed
- § 43-7. Perfection of lien by subcontractor; extent of lien; affirmative defense; provisions relating to time-share estates
- § 43-8. Sufficiency of memorandum, affidavit and notice required by § 43-7
- § 43-9. Perfection of lien by person performing labor or furnishing materials for a subcontractor; extent of lien
- § 43-10. Sufficiency of memorandum, affidavit and notice required by § 43-9
- § 43-11. How owner or general contractor made personally liable to subcontractor, laborer or materialman
- § 43-12. Repealed
- § 43-13. Funds paid to general contractor or subcontractor must be used to pay persons performing labor or furnishing material
- § 43-13.1. Use of lien waiver form; forgery or signing without authority
- § 43-13.2. When an affidavit or a signed statement of payment required of owner prior to sale
- § 43-13.3. An affidavit or a signed statement of payment required of owner prior to sale or refinance; penalty
- § 43-14. Repealed
- § 43-14.1. Service of notices
- § 43-15. Inaccuracies in memorandum or description not affecting lien
- § 43-16. What owner may do when contractor fails or refuses to complete building, etc
- § 43-17. Limitation on suit to enforce lien
- § 43-17.1. Hearing on validity of lien
- § 43-18. Lien of general contractor to inure to benefit of subcontractor
- § 43-19. Validity and priority of lien not affected by assignments
- § 43-20. Extent of lien where owner has less than fee in land
- § 43-21. Priorities between mechanics' and other liens
- § 43-22. How liens enforced
- § 43-23. Priority among liens perfected under this chapter
- § 43-23.1. Forfeiture of lien
- § 43-23.2. Remedies cumulative
- § 43-24. Liens of employees, suppliers, etc
- § 43-25. Perfection and enforcement of lien
- § 43-26. Assignee's rights
- § 43-27. Repealed
- § 43-27.1. When clerk may destroy crop lien agreement and crop lien book
- § 43-28. Repealed
- § 43-29. Liens of landlords and farmers for advances to tenants and laborers
- § 43-30. Lien of landlord and other recorded liens not affected by lien given under § 43-27; nor is right to claim exemption
- § 43-31. Lien of innkeepers, etc
- § 43-32. Lien of keeper of livery stable, marina, etc
- § 43-33. Lien of mechanic for repairs
- § 43-34. Enforcement of liens acquired under §§ 43-31 through 43-33 and of liens of bailees
- § 43-34.1. Lien of keeper of hangar or tie-down on aircraft subject to a chattel mortgage
- § 43-35. How and when validity of lien, or claim of other person to property, is tried
- § 43-36. Appeals, how taken and tried
- § 43-37. Sale of baggage and other personal property held pursuant to § 43-31 or unclaimed
- § 43-38. Withdrawal from such sale upon payment of charges, interest and expenses
- § 43-39. Distribution of proceeds of sale
- § 43-40. Subsequent payment of surplus proceeds to persons entitled thereto
- § 43-41. Lien on offspring of stallion or jackass
- § 43-42. Recordation of lien given by preceding section
- § 43-43. Lien on offspring of bull
Chapter 7. MISCELLANEOUS LIENS
- § 43-62. Lien for farm products consigned to commission merchant
- § 43-63. Lien for cleaning, laundering, dyeing, pressing or storing clothing, rugs and other fabrics
- § 43-63.1. Repealed
- § 43-64. How notices served, acts done, etc., in case of bankruptcy, death or absconding
- § 43-65. Protection of assignees, transferees or endorsees of debts secured by mechanics' or crop liens
- § 43-66. Purchaser not affected by liens of Mutual Assurance Society against Fire
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