Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-06-05
The NeNeLien Law.

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Of a great deal of practical interest
to the commercial world are the
changes made by the Legislature o.
1913 in the lien laws of North Carolina
Representative Brawley, of Durham
Is the author of the bill, the essential
provisions of which follows;
Revisal, Section 2018, amended so as
to read-"As often as any contractor
for the construction of any part of a
railroad which is in progress of CON-
struction shall be indebted to any la
borer for, thirty or less number OF
days labor performed in construction
of said road, or is indebted for more
than thirty days to any person fur
nishing material for the construction
of said road, such laborer or material
man may give notice of such indebted
ness to said company in a manner
herein provided, and said company
shall thereupOn become liable to paw
such laborer or material man the
amount so due for labor or material
and an action may be maintined
against said company therefor"
The remaining part of the new sec
ton provides practically the same ma
chinery for the enforcement of the
above provisions as is provided under,
the old section. oEn4
The new act repeats the whole of
Reyisal Section 1920 and substitutes
the following:
Counties, cities and towns to re-
quire bond of sub-contractor.
Every county, city or town or other
municipal corporation, which shall let
q contract for the building, repairing
or altering any building, shall require
the contractor for such work (When
the contract price exceeds five hundred
d%ollars)) to execute bond with one or
more solvent sureties before begin
ming any work under said contract.
payable to said county, city or town
or other municipal corporation and
conditioned for the payment of all
labor done on and material and sup
plies furnished for the said work, and
the amount of the bond to be given
by said contractor shall be equal to
the contract price up to two thousand
dollars; and when the contract price !
is between two and ten thousand dol
lars, the amount of said bond shall
be two thousand dollars plus thirty
five per cent of the excess and under
ten thousand dollars; when the con-
tract price is over ten thousand dol
lars the amount of said bond shall be
thousand dollars plus twenty-five
per cent of the eXceSS of the contract
price over the. sum of two thousand
dollars, and if the official of said coun-
ty, city, town or other municipal cor
poration, whose duty it shall be to
take said bond, shall fail to require
the said bond herein provided to be
given he shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor."
The remainder of the section pro-
Vides that any number of laborers or
material men may join in one suit and
sue on said bond in the courts having
Jurisdiction of the amount for the re-
covery of the amount due them re-
spectively.
To Revisal, Section 2O21 is added:
"and after the notice herein provided
is given, no payment to the contractor
shall be a credit OF or a discharge of
the lien herein provided.
To Revisal, Section 2023 is added:
cor of which notice shall have been
given the owner by the claimant"
A new section numbered 2013-a is
added, the principal provision of
WHICH. is LudC any person OOluS the /
work of cutting or saving logs into
lumber, getting out wood pulps, acid
wood or tan bark, shall have a lien
the said lumber for the amount
of wages due them, and the said lien
shall have priority over all other
or liens upon said lumber ex-
cept as against a purchaser for full
value and without notice."
Reyisal, Section 2028, is amended so
as to allow. six months for filing no.
tice of lien. /
To Revisal Section 1868 is added:
That if any contractor shall fail to
apply the contract price paid by the
owner or his agent to the payment of
bills for labor and material, he shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor."
Another section is added repeating
all local lien laws and as much of the y
public lien law as is in conflict with
his act. ~ !
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. ."HA Amended Insurance Laws.
The General Assembly passed sew
real bills affecting insurance matters.
These bills contained enactments that
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