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Timestamp: 2019-03-21 21:44:24
Document Index: 533524671

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 1301', '§ 1301', '§ 301', '§ 2', '§ 2', '§ 21', '§ 1301', '§ 1301']

§ 1301. Right to lien; amount; subcontractor
49 P.S. § 1301
(a) General Rule. Except as provided under subsection (b), every improvement and the estate or title of the owner in the property shall be subject to a lien, to be perfected as herein provided, for the payment of all debts due by the owner to the contractor or by the contractor to any of his subcontractors for labor or materials furnished in the erection or construction, or the alteration or repair of the improvement, provided that the amount of the claim, other than amounts determined by apportionment under section 306(b) of this act, shall exceed five hundred dollars ($500).
(b) Subcontractor. A subcontractor does not have the right to a lien with respect to an improvement to a residential property if:
1963, Aug. 24, P.L. 1175, No. 497, art. III, § 301. Amended 2014, July 9, P.L. 1019, No. 117, § 2, effective in 60 days [Sept. 8, 2014].
Adapted from Section 2, Act of 1901, 49 P.S. 21, 23, which prohibited claims for alterations or repairs unless the amount exceeded $100.00. This section increases the limitation to $500.00 as more realistically related to present economic conditions. It also extends the limitation to new construction as well as alterations and repairs.
A claim under $500.00 can be speedily disposed of before an alderman or justice of the peace. In Philadelphia, where the jurisdictional limit of the magistrate's court is fixed by the Constitution of 1874 at $100.00, compulsory arbitration procedures in the County Court provide for speedy disposition of civil actions. While the filing of a mechanics' lien in the case of alteration and repairs affords a lien from date of filing and a lien in a civil action dates only from verdict, the balancing of the equities and the desirability of the free alienation of property justifies increasing the exemption to $500.00.
1901, June 4, P.L. 431, § 2.
49 P.S. §§ 21, 23.
49 P.S. § 1301, PA ST 49 P.S. § 1301