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Nebraska Mechanics Lien Overview
Lien must be filed within 120 days of last providing labor or materials.
In Nebraska, an action to enforce a mechanics lien must be initiated within 2 years after filing the lien.
However, this deadline can be significantly shortened. If the property owner (or other interested party) gives a demand to initiate suit, the deadline is 30 days from receipt of the written demand.
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Contractors & suppliers have strong lien rights in Nebraska. If a contractor or supplier isn’t paid on an Nebraska job, they can turn to filing a lien to speed up payment and protect themselves. However, there are specific requirements and rules that must be followed. Here are 5 essential things you need to know about Nebraska’s mechanics lien law.
Contractors, suppliers, property owners, construction lenders, and other vendors will encounter all kinds of lien-related paperwork and questions when working on Nebraska construction jobs. Here are some of the common issues you may encounter, and answers written by construction attorneys and payment experts.
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Nebraska Mechanics Lien Statute FAQs
The provisions of the Nebraska statutes that permit the filing of mechanics liens and materialman’s liens can be found in Nebraska’s Construction Lien Law, Neb.Rev.St. § 52-115 et. seq. The full text of the Nebraska Construction Lien Law is provided below, and has been updated as of 2011.
Nebraska's Mechanics Lien Statute
§ 52-115. Labor on Railroads, Similar Utilities; Liability of Company; Notice of Claim; Interest
Whenever any laborer upon any railroad, canal, viaduct, bridge, ditch, or other similar improvement in this state, shall have just claim or demand for labor performed on any such railroad, canal, bridge, ditch, viaduct, or other similar improvement against any person or persons who are, or any company which is a contractor on such railroad, canal, viaduct or bridge, or against any person or persons who are subcontractors with any person or persons or company contracting with any such railroad, bridge, viaduct, or ditching company for the construction of any part of any such railroad, bridge, canal, viaduct or ditch of any such company, every such railroad, canal, bridge or ditch company shall be liable to pay such laborer the amount of such claim or demand with ten percent interest thereon; Provided, such laborer shall have given notice within sixty days after the last item of labor shall have been performed, that he or she has such claim or demand. Such notice shall be given in writing and shall specify the nature and amount of the claim or demand, and shall be delivered to the president or vice president, superintendent, agent or the managing director or chief engineer in charge of that portion of the work, or any portion of the railroad, canal, viaduct, bridge or ditch upon which such labor is performed.
§ 52-116. Railroad and Similar Construction; Lien for Labor or Material; to What Attaches
§ 52-117. Railroad and Similar Construction; Lien for Labor or Material; Statement of Claim; Filing; Time Limit; Duration
Every person, whether contractor or subcontractor or materialman, who wishes to avail himself of the provisions of section 52-116 shall file with the register of deeds of the county in which the building, erection, excavation or other similar improvement to be charged with the lien, is situated, a just and true statement or account of the demand due him after allowing all credits, setting forth the time when such material was furnished or labor performed, and when completed, containing a correct description of the property to be charged with the lien and verified by affidavit. Such verified statement or account must be filed by a principal contractor within ninety days, and by a subcontractor within sixty days from the date on which the last of the material shall have been furnished, or the last of the labor is performed; but a failure or omission to file the same within the periods last aforesaid shall not defeat the lien, except against purchasers or encumbrancers in good faith without notice, whose rights accrued after the sixty or ninety days, as the case may be, and before any claim for the lien was filed; Provided, when a lien is claimed upon a railway, the subcontractor shall have sixty days from the last day of the month in which such labor was done or material furnished within which to file his claim therefor. Such lien shall continue for the period of two years, and any person holding such lien may proceed to obtain a judgment for the amount of his account thereon by civil action. When any suit or suits shall be commenced on such accounts within the time of such lien, the lien shall continue until such suit or suits are finally determined and satisfied.
§ 52-118. Public Building Construction; Bond Required for Benefit of Laborers, Mechanics, and Suppliers; Exception
(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, it shall be the duty of the State of Nebraska or any department or agency thereof, the county boards, the contracting board of all cities, villages, and school districts, all public boards empowered by law to enter into a contract for the erecting, furnishing, or repairing of any public building, bridge, highway, or other public structure or improvement, and any officer or officers so empowered by law to enter into such contract, to which the general provisions of the mechanics’ lien laws do not apply and when the mechanics and laborers have no lien to secure the payment of their wages and suppliers who furnish material and who lease equipment for such work have no lien to secure payment therefor, to take from the person as defined in section 49-801 to whom the contract is awarded a payment bond or bonds in a sum not less than the contract price with a corporate surety company and agent selected by such person, conditioned for the payment of all laborers and mechanics for labor that is performed and for the payment for material and equipment rental which is actually used or rented in the erecting, furnishing, or repairing of the public structure or improvement or in performing the contract.
(2) The labor and material payment bond or bonds referred to in subsection (1) of this section shall not be required for (a) any project bid or proposed by the State of Nebraska or any department or agency thereof which has a total cost of fifteen thousand dollars or less or (b) any project bid or proposed by any county board, contracting board of any city, village, or school district, public board, or officer referred to in subsection (1) of this section which has a total cost of ten thousand dollars or less unless the state, department, agency, board, or officer includes a bond requirement in the specifications for the project.
(3) The bond or bonds referred to in subsection (1) of this section shall be to, filed with, approved by, and safely kept by the State of Nebraska, department or agency thereof, officer or officers, or board awarding the contract. No contract referred to in subsection (1) of this section shall be entered into by the State of Nebraska, department or agency thereof, officer or officers, or board referred to in subsection (1) of this section until the bond or bonds referred to in subsection (1) of this section has been so made, filed, and approved.
(4) The bond or bonds referred to in subsection (1) of this section may be taken from the person to whom the contract is awarded by the owner and owner’s representative jointly as determined by the owner. The corporate surety company referred to in subsection (1) of this section shall have a rating acceptable to the owner as the owner may require.
§ 52-118.01. Public Building Construction; Bond; Claim for Unpaid Labor or Material; Action; Procedure
Every person who has furnished labor or material in the prosecution of the work provided for in the contract set out in subsection (1) of section 52-118, in respect of which a bond is or bonds are furnished under such section, and who has not been paid in full therefor before the expiration of a period of ninety days after the day on which the last of the labor was done or performed by him or her or material was furnished or supplied by him or her for which such claim is made shall have the right to sue on such bond or bonds for the amount or the balance thereof unpaid at the time of the institution of such suit and to prosecute the action to final execution and judgment for the sum or sums justly due him or her. Any person having a direct contractual relationship with a subcontractor but no contractual relationship, express or implied, with the contractor furnishing such bond or bonds shall have a right of action upon the bond or bonds upon giving written notice to the contractor within four months from the date on which such person did or performed the last of the labor or furnished or supplied the last of the material for which such claim is made, stating with substantial accuracy the amount claimed and the name of the party to whom the material was furnished or supplied or for whom the labor was done or performed. Such notice shall be served by mailing the same by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, in an envelope addressed to the contractor at any place he or she maintains an office or conducts his or her business or his or her residence or in any other manner in which a notice may be served.
§ 52-118.02. Public Building Construction; Bond; Action; Limitation; Person to Bring Suit; Rental Equipment, Defined
Every suit instituted under section 52-118.01 shall be brought by any person entitled to the benefit of this action, but no such suit shall be commenced after the expiration of one year after the date of final settlement of the principal contract. The action shall be in the name of the party claiming the benefits of this action.
For the purposes of subsection (1) of section 52-118, equipment which is rented for a project covered by such subsection under a lease with an option to purchase shall be considered to be equipment rented under a straight lease agreement not to exceed the reasonable rental value of the equipment during the period such equipment is actually used on such project and unless and until the option to purchase is validly exercised under the contract.
§ 52-123. Failure to Apply Payments Received on Lawful Claims; Unlawful; Failure to Discharge Lien; Prima Facie Evidence of Intent to Deprive or Defraud
§ 52-124. Failure to Apply Payments for Lawful Claims; Failure to Discharge Lien; Penalty
§ 52-125. Act, How Cited
§ 52-126. Sections, Purpose
§ 52-127. Terms, Defined
§ 52-128. Contracting owner; Presumption of Agency
§ 52-129. Protected Party, Residential Real Estate, Defined
(1) Protected party shall mean: (a) An individual who contracts to give a real estate security interest in, or to buy or to have improved, residential real estate all or a part of which he or she occupies or intends to occupy as a residence; (b) A person obligated primarily or secondarily on a contract to buy or have improved residential real estate or on an obligation secured by residential real estate if, at the time he or she becomes obligated, he or she is related to an individual who occupies or intends to occupy all or a part of the real estate as a residence; or (c) With respect to a security agreement, a person who acquires residential real estate and assumes or takes subject to the obligation of a prior protected party under the real estate security agreement. (2) Residential real estate shall mean, in relation to a protected party, real estate, improved or to be improved, containing not more than four dwelling units and no nonresidential uses for which the protected party is a lessor. A condominium unit that is otherwise residential real estate remains so even though the condominium development contains more than four dwelling units or units used for nonresidential purposes.
§ 52-130. Real Estate Improvement Contract, Defined
§ 52-131. Construction Lien; Existence; Amount; Priority; Enforcement
(4) The amount of a claimant’s lien is specified by section 52-136. The content of the notice of the right to assert a lien to be given to the owner under section 52-136 is specified by section 52-135.
§ 52-132. Public Property; Exempt from Lien
§ 52-133. Real Estate Subject to Construction Lien
§ 52-134. Lien for Materials; Conditions; Limitations
§ 52-135. Notice of Right to Assert Lien; Contents; Optional Notice to Contracting Owner; Notice, When Effective; Applicability of Section
(1) At any time after a claimant has entered into the contract under which he or she may claim a lien under the Nebraska Construction Lien Act, he or she may give notice of the right to assert a lien to the contracting owner. The notice of the right to assert a lien must be in writing, state that it is a notice of a right to assert a lien against real estate for services or materials furnished in connection with improvement of the real estate, and contain:
(f) A statement that the claimant is entitled to record a lien;
(h) The following statement in type no smaller than that used in providing the information required by subdivisions (1)(a) through (1)(g) of this subsection:
(2) A claimant may notify the contracting owner, either in the notice of the right to assert a lien or separately, that the claimant must be notified of the recording of any termination of the notice of commencement. The notice to the owner must be in writing and, if not part of the notice of the right to assert a lien, shall contain the information specified in subdivisions (1)(a) through (1)(e) of this section. In addition, the notice shall state that a written notice of the recording of any notice of termination must be given to the claimant at least three weeks before the effective date of the notice of termination.
(3) The claimant shall send a copy of a recorded lien to the contracting owner within ten days after recording, and the recording shall be within the time specified for the filing of liens under section 52-137.
(4) If the contracting owner has held out another person as contracting owner, either by naming that person in the notice of commencement or otherwise, a notice directed to and received by that person is effective against the contracting owner.
(5) If the contracting owner has held out a fictitious or nonexisting person as contracting owner either by naming that person in the notice of commencement or otherwise, a notice to that fictitious or nonexisting person delivered at an address held out by the contracting owner as the address of the fictitious or nonexisting person is effective against the contracting owner.
(6) This section shall apply to a lien claimant only when the contracting owner is a protected party.
§ 52-136. Amount of Lien
(2) Except as modified by subsections (4) and (5) of this section, as against a protected party contracting owner, the lien of a claimant other than a prime contractor is for the lesser of:
(b) The amount unpaid under the prime contract through which the claimant claims at the time the contracting owner receives the claimant’s notice of the right to assert a lien.
(a) Is made in good faith before the receipt by the contracting owner of a copy of a recorded lien or of a notice of the right to assert a lien; or
(b) If made after receipt by the contracting owner of a copy of a recorded lien or of a notice of the right to assert a lien, is made in good faith and leaves unpaid a part of the prime contract price sufficient to satisfy the unpaid claims of all claimants who have provided a copy of a recorded lien or who have given notice of the right to assert a lien and whose claims are not being satisfied by the payment.
§ 52-137. Attachment and Enforcement of Lien; Recording Required; Time Limitation; Attachment, When
§ 52-138. Priority Among Lien Claimants
§ 52-139. Priority of Construction Liens as Against Claims Other Than Construction Lien Claims
§ 52-140. Duration of Lien; Demand to Institute Judicial Proceedings; Continuation of Lien During Pendency of Proceeding
§ 52-141. Surety Bond; Notice Required; No Lien Attaches to Real Estate; Bond, Requirements; Copy to Claimant; Action Against Surety
§ 52-142. Substitution of Collateral; Release of Lien; Procedure
§ 52-143. Obligation of Claimant to Furnish Information to Other Lien Claimant; Damages; Applicability of Section
§ 52-144. Waiver of Construction Lien Rights; What Constitutes; Validity; Effect
§ 52-145. Notice of Commencement; By Whom Filed; Contents; Recording; Duration; Extension
(7) Sections 52-125 to 52-159 apply equally to all notices of commencement, but as to a notice of commencement recorded by a claimant:
§ 52-146. Termination of Notice of Commencement; Procedure
(b) Sending, at least three weeks before the effective date of the notice of termination, a copy of the notice of termination, showing the date it was recorded, to all claimants who have requested that the owner notify them of the recording of a notice of termination;
§ 52-148. Amount of Recorded Lien
§ 52-149. Assignment of Lien Rights; Recording; Effect
§ 52-150. Notice of Surety; Recording; Contents
§ 52-151. Substitution of Collateral; Certificate; Recording; Contents
(2) The certificate, which shall be signed by the clerk of the district court, shall state the amount deposited, if money, or, if a surety bond, the amount of the bond and the name and address of the surety company. (3) The certificate also shall state, on the basis of information supplied by the person making the deposit:
§ 52-152. Demand to Institute Judicial Proceedings; Recording; Claimant's Statement; Recording
§ 52-153. Owner's Statement of Apportionment of Lien; Recording; Contents
§ 52-154. Discharge of Lien; Partial Release; Procedure
§ 52-155. Proceeding to Enforce Lien
§ 52-156. Recording of Notice of Termination Before Abandonment or Completion; Owner; Liability
§ 52-157. Remedies for Wrongful Conduct
§ 52-159. Substitution of Terms; Revisor of Statuses; Duties