2017 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 29 - Mortgages and Other Liens
CHAPTER 9 - LIENS ON SHIPS AND VESSELS
Section 29-9-20. Statement of account.
Such lien shall be dissolved unless the person claiming it shall file, within ninety days after he ceases to labor on or furnish labor or materials for such ship or vessel, in the office of the register of deeds or clerk of court of the county within which the ship or vessel was at the time the debt was contracted, a statement, subscribed and sworn to by himself or by some person in his behalf, giving a just and true account of the demands claimed to be due to him, with all just credits, and also the name of the person with whom the contract was made, the name of the owner of the ship or vessel, if known, and the name of the ship or vessel or a description thereof sufficient for identification. Such statement shall be recorded by the register of deeds or clerk in a book kept by him for that purpose, for which he shall receive the same fees as for recording other papers of equal length.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 45-352; 1952 Code Section 45-352; 1942 Code Section 8782; 1932 Code Section 8788; Civ. C. '22 Section 5684; Civ. C. '12 Section 4154; Civ. C. '02 Section 3049; G. S. 2390; R. S. 2505; 1869 (14) 224; 1884 (18) 735.
Code Commissioner's Note
1997 Act No. 34, Section 1, directed the Code Commissioner to change all references to "Register of Mesne Conveyances" to "Register of Deeds" wherever appearing in the 1976 Code of Laws.
