2011 Vermont Code
Title 09 Commerce and Trade
Chapter 51 MISCELLANEOUS LIENS
§ 1991 Nature and extent of lien


9 VT Stats § 1991. (2011 through Adj Sess) What's This?

§ 1991. Nature and extent of lien

A person cutting or drawing logs and acting under a contract with the owner thereof shall have a lien thereon for his wages which shall continue 60 days after the services are performed and have precedence of other claims except public taxes. Such lien shall not attach until the person claiming it files in the office of the clerk of the town where he performed the service, or if the town is unorganized, in the county clerk's office, a brief statement of the contract under which he claims a lien and his purpose to enforce it against the property for the amount due for such service.

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