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AR Code § 18-44-116 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 44 - Mechanics' and Materialmen's Liens|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 18-44-116. Service on nonresident or absconder

 (a)  (1) Whenever property is sought to be charged with a lien under this subchapter, the notice may be filed with the recorder of deeds of the county in which the property is situated if the owner of the property so sought to be charged:  (A) Is not a resident of this state;  (B) Does not have an agent in the county in which the property is situated;  (C) Is a resident of this state but not of the county in which the property is situated; or  (D) Conceals himself or herself, has absconded, or absents himself or herself from his or her usual place of abode, so that the notice required by § 18-44-114 or § 18-44-115 cannot be served upon him or her.    (2) When filed, the notice shall have like effect as if served upon the owner or his or her agent in the manner contemplated in § 18-44-114 or § 18-44-115.    (b) A copy of the notice so filed, together with the certificate of the recorder of deeds that it is a correct copy of the notice so filed, shall be received in all courts of this state as evidence of the service, as provided in this section, of the notice.  (c)  (1) The recorder of deeds in each county of this state shall receive, file, and keep every such notice presented to him or her for filing and shall further record it at length in a separate book appropriately entitled.  (2) For service so performed, the recorder of deeds shall receive for each notice, the sum of twenty-five cents (25¢), and for each copy certified, as stated in this section, of each of the notices he or she shall receive the sum of fifty cents (50¢), to be paid by the party so filing or procuring the certified copy, as the case may be.    (d) The costs of filing and of one (1) certified copy shall be taxed as costs in any lien suit to which it pertains to abide the result of the suit.
AR Code § 18-44-117 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 44 - Mechanics' and Materialmen's Liens|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 18-44-117. Filing of lien

 (a)  (1) A person who wishes to avail himself or herself of the provisions of this subchapter has a duty to file with the clerk of the circuit court of the county in which the building, erection, or other improvement to be charged with the lien is situated and within one hundred twenty (120) days after the things specified in this subchapter have been furnished or the work or labor done or performed:  (A) A just and true account of the demand due or owing to him or her after allowing all credits; and  (B) An affidavit of notice attached to the lien account.    (2)  (A) The lien account shall contain a correct description of the property to be charged with the lien, verified by affidavit.  (B) For real property, a street address is not a correct description of the property under subdivision (a)(2)(A) of this section.    (3) The affidavit of notice shall contain:  (A) A sworn statement evidencing compliance with the applicable notice provisions of §§ 18-44-114 — 18-44-116;  (B) A copy of each applicable notice given under §§ 18-44-114 — 18-44-116; and  (C) A copy of the proof of service required under § 18-44-114.      (b)  (1)  (A) The clerk of the circuit court has a duty to endorse upon every account the date of its filing and to make an abstract of the account in a book kept by him or her for that purpose, properly indexed.  (B) This abstract shall contain:  (i) The date of the filing;  (ii) The name of the person laying or imposing the lien;  (iii) The amount of the lien;  (iv) The name of the person against whose property the lien is filed; and  (v) A description of the property to be charged with the lien.    (C) For real property, a street address is not a sufficient description under subdivision (b)(1)(B) of this section.    (2) For this service, the person laying or imposing the lien shall submit the fee required by § 21-6-306 to the clerk of the circuit court, and the fee shall be taxed and collected as other costs in case there is a suit on the lien.  (3) The clerk of the circuit court shall not file a lien account that does not contain the affidavits and attachments required by this section.
AR Code § 18-44-119 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 44 - Mechanics' and Materialmen's Liens|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 18-44-119. Limitation of actions

 (a) All actions under this subchapter shall be commenced within fifteen (15) months after filing the lien and prosecuted without unnecessary delay to final judgment.  (b) No lien shall continue to exist by virtue of the provisions of this subchapter for more than fifteen (15) months after the lien is filed, unless within that time:  (1) An action shall be instituted as described in this subchapter; and  (2) A lis pendens is filed under § 16-59-101 et seq.
AR Code § 18-44-122 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 44 - Mechanics' and Materialmen's Liens|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 18-44-122. Contents of complaint

 The complaint, among other things, shall allege the facts necessary for securing a lien under this subchapter and shall contain a description of the property to be charged with the lien.
AR Code § 18-44-123 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 44 - Mechanics' and Materialmen's Liens|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 18-44-123. Parties to suits

 In all suits under this subchapter, the parties to the contract and all other persons interested in the controversy and in the property charged with the lien may be made parties to the suit. Those that are not made parties shall not be bound by the proceedings.
AR Code § 18-44-124 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 44 - Mechanics' and Materialmen's Liens|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 18-44-124. Contractor to defend actions on liens by third persons — Liability

 (a) In all cases in which a lien shall be filed under the provisions of this subchapter by any person other than a contractor, it shall be the duty of the contractor to defend at his or her own expense any action brought thereupon. During the pendency of the action, the owner may withhold from the contractor the amount of money for which the lien shall be filed.  (b)  (1) In case of judgment against the owner or his or her property upon the lien, the owner shall be entitled to deduct from any amount due by him or her to the contractor the amount of the judgment and costs.  (2) If the owner shall have settled with the contractor in full, he or she shall be entitled to recover back from the contractor any amount so paid by the owner for which the contractor was originally liable.
AR Code § 18-44-125 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 44 - Mechanics' and Materialmen's Liens|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 18-44-125. Court orders

 The court shall make orders in the case as will protect and enforce the rights of all interested therein.
AR Code § 18-44-126 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 44 - Mechanics' and Materialmen's Liens|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 18-44-126. Warning order for nonresident or absconding owners

 Whenever the owner of an erection or improvement, or of land on which an erection or improvement is put, or the owner of any boat or vessel, is a nonresident of the state or resides out of the county in which the erection or other improvement is put, as provided by this subchapter, or when the owner so conceals himself or herself that personal service of summons cannot be had on him or her, then the mechanic, builder, artisan, workman, laborer, or other persons entitled to a lien under this subchapter, upon instituting suit, may cause a warning order to issue and be published as may be prescribed by law for the issuance of warning orders in proceedings under attachment. Such service shall be binding and of full force and effect.
AR Code § 18-44-127 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 44 - Mechanics' and Materialmen's Liens|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 18-44-127. Trial and judgment

 (a) The court shall ascertain by a fair trial, in the usual way, the amount of the indebtedness for which the lien is prosecuted and may render judgment therefor in any sum not exceeding the amount claimed in the demand filed with the lien, together with interest and costs, although the creditor may have unintentionally failed to render in his or her account when filed the full amount of credits to which the debtor may have been entitled.  (b) The judgment if for the plaintiff shall be that he or she recover the amount of the indebtedness found due, to be levied out of the property charged with the lien therefor, and the property charged shall be correctly described in the judgment.
AR Code § 18-44-128 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 44 - Mechanics' and Materialmen's Liens|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 18-44-128. Attorney's fee

 (a) When any contractor, subcontractor, laborer, or material supplier who has filed a lien, as provided for in this chapter, gives notice thereof to the owner of property by any method permitted under § 18-44-115(b)(5) and the claim has not been paid within twenty (20) days from the date of service of the notice, and if the contractor, subcontractor, laborer, or material supplier is required to sue for the enforcement of his or her claim, the court shall allow the successful contractor, subcontractor, laborer, or material supplier a reasonable attorney's fee in addition to other relief to which he or she may be entitled.  (b) If the owner is the prevailing party in the action, the court shall allow the owner a reasonable attorney's fee in addition to any other relief to which the owner may be entitled.
AR Code § 18-44-131 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 44 - Mechanics' and Materialmen's Liens|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 18-44-131. Duty to enter satisfaction

 (a) Whenever any indebtedness which is a lien on any real estate, erection, building, or other improvement is paid and satisfied, it shall be the duty of the creditor to enter satisfaction of the lien upon the record or margin thereof in the office of the clerk of the circuit court.  (b) Any creditor refusing or neglecting to do so for ten (10) days after payment shall be liable to any person injured to the amount of injury and for cost of suit.
AR Code § 18-44-132 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 44 - Mechanics' and Materialmen's Liens|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 18-44-132. Penalty for failure to discharge lien after payment

 (a) It shall be unlawful for any contractor, subcontractor, or other person who has performed work or furnished materials for the improvement of any property when the work or materials may give rise to a mechanic's, laborer's, or materialman's lien under the laws of this state, this subchapter and §§ 18-44-201 — 18-44-210 and 18-44-301 — 18-44-305, or any other statute providing for a mechanic's, laborer's, or materialman's lien, or the assignee of such person, knowingly to receive payment of the contract price or any portion of it without applying the money so received toward the discharge of any liens known to the person receiving the payment, or properly record it as required by statutes, with the intent thereby to deprive the owner or person so paying the contractor or other person receiving payment of his or her funds without discharging the liens and thereby to defraud the owner or person so paying.  (b) In any prosecution under this section as against the person so receiving payment, when it shall be shown in evidence that any lien for labor or materials existed in favor of any mechanic, laborer, or materialman and that the lien has been filed within the time provided by law in the office of the circuit clerk or other officer provided by law for the filing of such liens, and that the contractor, subcontractor, or other person charged has received payment without discharging the lien to the extent of the funds received by him or her, then the fact of acceptance of the payment without having discharged the lien within ten (10) days after receipt of the payment or the receipt of notice of the existence of the lien, whichever event shall occur last, shall be prima facie evidence of intent to defraud on the part of the person so receiving payment.  (c)  (1) If the amount of the contract price so received and not applied to the discharge of the liens, with the intent to defraud, shall exceed the sum of twenty-five dollars ($25.00), the party so receiving shall be deemed guilty of a felony and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000) or by imprisonment in the Department of Corrections for not less than one (1) year nor more than five (5) years, or by both.  (2) If the amount so received does not exceed the sum of twenty-five dollars ($25.00), the party shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one (1) year or by fine not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than three hundred dollars ($300), or by both.
AR Code § 18-44-135 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 44 - Mechanics' and Materialmen's Liens|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 18-44-135. Jointly owned property

 In the event that property is jointly owned, the signature of one (1) of the owners is sufficient for the purposes of this chapter.
AR Code § 18-44-201 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 44 - Mechanics' and Materialmen's Liens|Subchapter 2 - Wells, Mines, and Quarries Generally|§ 18-44-201. Construction

 The provisions of this section and §§ 18-44-202 — 18-44-210 shall not be construed to deprive or abridge materialmen, artisans, laborers, or mechanics of any rights and remedies given them by law, and the provisions of this section and §§ 18-44-202 — 18-44-210 shall be cumulative of the lien laws of this state.
AR Code § 18-44-202 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 44 - Mechanics' and Materialmen's Liens|Subchapter 2 - Wells, Mines, and Quarries Generally|§ 18-44-202. Right to lien in general — Extent

 (a) Any person, corporation, firm, association, partnership, material man, artisan, laborer, or mechanic who when under contract, express or implied, made with the owner or lessee of any land, mine, or quarry, or the owner of any gas, oil, or mineral leasehold interest in land, or the owner of any gas pipeline or oil pipeline, or owner of any oil or gas pipeline right-of-way, or with the trustee, agent, or receiver of any such owner, performs labor, or furnishes fuel, material, machinery, or supplies used in the digging, drilling, torpedoing, operating, completing, equipping, maintaining, or repairing of any oil or gas well, water well, mine or quarry, or oil or gas pipeline, including any and all tanks or other receptacles used or intended for the storage of oil, regardless of where the oil is produced, shall have a lien on:  (1) The whole of the land or leasehold interest therein;  (2) Any oil pipeline or gas pipeline including the right-of-way for the pipeline;  (3) Any lease for oil and gas purposes, the buildings and appurtenances, the materials and supplies so furnished, the oil well, gas well, water well, oil or gas pipeline, mine, or quarry for which they are furnished, and on all of the other oil wells, gas wells, buildings and appurtenances including pipelines, leasehold interests, and land used in operating for oil, gas, and other minerals; or  (4) The leasehold, land, or pipeline and the right-of-way therefor for which the material and supplies were furnished or labor performed, whether they are movable or not.    (b) If labor supplies, machinery, or material are furnished to a leaseholder, the lien created by this section shall not attach to the underlying fee title to the land.
AR Code § 18-44-203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 44 - Mechanics' and Materialmen's Liens|Subchapter 2 - Wells, Mines, and Quarries Generally|§ 18-44-203. Furnishing materials or labor to contractors or subcontractors

 Any person, corporation, firm, association, partnership, or materialman who furnishes machinery, material, or supplies to a contractor or subcontractor or any person who performs labor under a subcontractor with a contractor, or who as an artisan or day laborer in the employ of a contractor or subcontractor performs any labor, shall have a lien on the land or leasehold interest therein, or on the oil pipeline or gas pipeline including the pipeline right-of-way, or on a lease for oil or gas purposes, on the buildings and appurtenances, and on the materials and supplies furnished and on the oil well, gas well, water well, oil or gas pipeline and the right-of-way therefor, mine, or quarry for which they are furnished, and on all of the other oil wells, buildings and appurtenances, leasehold interest, oil or gas pipeline including right-of-way, or land used in the operating for oil, gas, or other minerals upon which leasehold or land for which the material and supplies were furnished and labor performed, in the same manner and to the same extent as the original contractor, for the amount due him or her for the material furnished or labor performed.
AR Code § 18-44-204 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 44 - Mechanics' and Materialmen's Liens|Subchapter 2 - Wells, Mines, and Quarries Generally|§ 18-44-204. Labor or materials furnished refinery or gasoline extraction plants

 (a) The lien created by this section and §§ 18-44-201 — 18-44-203 and 18-44-205 — 18-44-210 shall apply in favor of any person, corporation, firm, association, or partnership who shall furnish any material, machinery, or supplies or perform any labor in the erection, operation, or repair of any refinery or gasoline extraction plant.  (b) The lien shall cover the plant, together with the land upon which it is situated, including all pipelines belonging to the refinery or gasoline extraction plant and used in connection therewith.
AR Code § 18-44-205 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 44 - Mechanics' and Materialmen's Liens|Subchapter 2 - Wells, Mines, and Quarries Generally|§ 18-44-205. Improvements on leased land

 The provisions of § 18-44-103 shall not apply to liens created by this subchapter, and in foreclosures under this section and §§ 18-44-201 — 18-44-204 and 18-44-206 — 18-44-210, all the right, title, and interest of the leaseholder shall be subjected to the lien created by it.
AR Code § 18-44-206 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 44 - Mechanics' and Materialmen's Liens|Subchapter 2 - Wells, Mines, and Quarries Generally|§ 18-44-206. Priority generally

 (a)  (1) The lien given in this section and §§ 18-44-201 — 18-44-205 and 18-44-207 — 18-44-210 against the land or leasehold interest in the land, on the oil pipeline or gas pipeline, including the right-of-way, on any lease for oil and gas purposes, including the buildings and appurtenances on the land, on the materials and supplies so furnished, on the oil well, gas well, water well, oil or gas pipeline, mine, or quarry for which the materials were furnished or labor performed, and on all other oil wells, gas wells, and water wells on the lands shall be prior and paramount to, and in preference of, any and all subsequent liens, encumbrances, and mortgages.  (2) Except as provided in this subchapter, all liens established in this subchapter shall be of equal dignity.    (b)  (1) The lien provided for in this section and §§ 18-44-201 — 18-44-205 and 18-44-207 — 18-44-210 shall attach to the machinery, material, supplies, and to any specific improvements made in preference to any prior lien, encumbrance, or mortgage upon the land or leasehold interest upon which the machinery, material, supplies, or specific improvements are placed or located.  (2) However, any lien, encumbrance, or mortgage upon the land, or any leasehold interest, existing at the time of the inception of the lien provided for in these sections shall not be affected by the new lien, and such holders of liens upon the land or leasehold interest shall not be necessary parties in suits to foreclose the lien created.
AR Code § 18-44-207 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 44 - Mechanics' and Materialmen's Liens|Subchapter 2 - Wells, Mines, and Quarries Generally|§ 18-44-207. Lien of common laborer superior

 (a) As between the various liens provided by §§ 18-44-202 — 18-44-204, that given common laborers shall be superior to all other liens perfected under this section and §§ 18-44-201 — 18-44-206 and 18-44-208 — 18-44-210.  (b) The term “common laborer” shall mean not only persons actually performing manual labor in the drilling, operating, completing, equipping, maintaining, and repairing oil or gas wells, but to also include persons hauling supplies or machinery to be used in the drilling, operating, equipping, maintaining, or repairing of any oil or gas wells.
AR Code § 18-44-208 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 44 - Mechanics' and Materialmen's Liens|Subchapter 2 - Wells, Mines, and Quarries Generally|§ 18-44-208. Proceedings for establishment and enforcement

 (a) Except as expressly provided in this section and §§ 18-44-201 — 18-44-207 and 18-44-209 — 18-44-210, the lien created under the provisions of these sections shall be construed, established, preserved, and enforced in like manner and in the same time as liens of mechanics are construed, established, preserved, and enforced.  (b)  (1) When the labor performed or the material, supplies, or machinery furnished was entered under an open, running account, that shall be construed as a continuous contract, and the time within which the verified statement of the claim for lien shall be filed with the clerk of the circuit court shall be computed from the time upon which the last labor was in good faith performed or the last material, machinery, or supplies were in good faith furnished.  (2) The lien provided for, when perfected in the manner set out in this subchapter, shall be held in law and equity as security for the entire open, running account whether it has been partially closed by note or not.    (c)  (1) Whenever any person shall remove any encumbered property to a county other than the one in which the lien has been filed, the lienholder, within ninety (90) days after removal, may file an itemized inventory of the property so removed.  (2)  (A) The inventory shall show how much there is due and unpaid thereon and shall be filed with the circuit clerk of the county to which it has been removed.  (B) This filing shall operate as notice of the existence of the lien and the lien shall attach, and extend to, the land or leasehold and other premises, properties, and appurtenances to which the properties so removed shall attach of the kind and character enumerated in §§ 18-44-202 — 18-44-204.