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2023 California Code
Civil Code - CIV
DIVISION 4 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
PART 6 - WORKS OF IMPROVEMENT
TITLE 3 - PUBLIC WORK OF IMPROVEMENT
CHAPTER 5 - Payment Bond
Section 9564.
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CA Civ Code § 9564 (2023)
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9564. (a) A claimant may maintain an action to enforce the liability of a surety on a payment bond whether or not the claimant has given the public entity a stop payment notice.
(b) A claimant may maintain an action to enforce the liability on the bond separately from and without commencement of an action against the public entity by whom the contract was awarded or against any officer of the public entity.
(c) In an action to enforce the liability on the bond, the court shall award the prevailing party a reasonable attorney’s fee.
(Added by Stats. 2010, Ch. 697, Sec. 20. (SB 189) Effective January 1, 2011. Operative July 1, 2012, by Sec. 105 of Ch. 697 and by Section 8052.)
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