2012 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 376 STATUTORY LIENS 376.080 Lien dissolved unless statement filed with county clerk and copy mailed to property owner -- Form of statement.
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376.080 Lien dissolved unless statement filed with county clerk and copy mailed to
property owner -- Form of statement.
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Any lien provided for in KRS 376.010 shall be dissolved unless the claimant, within
six (6) months after he ceases to labor or furnish materials, files in the office of the
county clerk of the county in which the building or improvement is situated a
statement of the amount due him, with all just credits and set-offs known to him,
together with a description of the property intended to be covered by the lien
sufficiently accurate to identify it, the name of the owner, if known, and whether the
materials were furnished or the labor performed by contract with the owner or with
a contractor or subcontractor. Lien statement forms shall require the name and
address of the claimant. If the claimant is a corporation, the statement shall require
the name and address of the corporation's process agent, or some other address at
which service of process under the Rules of Civil Procedure may be accomplished.
If no name and address is included in the statement, service of process in an action
involving the real property may be accomplished by serving the person who signs
the lien statement. This statement shall be subscribed and sworn to by the person
claiming the lien or by someone in his behalf. The claimant shall send by regular
mail a copy of the statement to the property owner at his last known address within
seven (7) days of filing the statement with the county clerk. Any lien provided for in
KRS 376.010 shall be dissolved if a copy of the statement is not sent to the property
owner as provided in this subsection.
The county clerk shall endorse upon each statement the date of its filing, and shall
make an abstract of the statement in a book to be kept by him for that purpose,
properly endorsed and indexed, containing the date of filing, the name of the person
seeking to enforce the lien, the amount claimed, the name of the person against
whose property the lien is filed, and a description of the property charged with the
lien. The clerk shall receive a fee pursuant to KRS 64.012 from the person filing the
statement as full compensation, which shall be taxed and collected as other costs.
Effective: July 13, 1990
History: Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 468, sec. 1, effective July 13, 1990. -- Amended
1988 Ky. Acts ch. 259, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1988. -- Amended 1978 Ky. Acts
ch. 84, sec. 13, effective June 17, 1978; and ch. 384, sec. 503, effective June 17,
1978. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from
Ky. Stat. secs. 2468, 2469.
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