US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

                                  TITLE  45
                         LIENS, MORTGAGES AND PLEDGES
                                  CHAPTER 5
                      LIENS OF MECHANICS AND MATERIALMEN
    45-506.  LIENS PREFERRED CLAIMS. The liens provided for in this chapter
shall be on equal footing with those liens within the same class of liens,
without reference to the date of the filing of the lien claim or claims and
are preferred to any lien, mortgage or other encumbrance, which may have
attached subsequent to the time when the building, improvement or structure
was commenced, work done, equipment, materials or fixtures were rented or
leased, or materials or professional services were commenced to be furnished;
also to any lien, mortgage, or other encumbrance of which the lienholder had
no notice, and which was unrecorded at the time the building, improvement or
structure was commenced, work done, equipment, materials or fixtures were
rented or leased, or materials or professional services were commenced to be
furnished.