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AR Code § 18-43-114 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 43 - Laborers' Liens Generally|§ 18-43-114. Pro rata distribution

 (a) When there are several liens for labor on the same land, crop, or property of the same date, or which are equally just, and not enough to satisfy all claims, the sale will be made, the costs paid, and the money divided pro rata among the several claimants.  (b) The courts shall make the pro rata division as provided for in subsection (a) of this section and shall make the proper credits on the execution.
AR Code § 18-43-115 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 43 - Laborers' Liens Generally|§ 18-43-115. Real estate not exempt

 No real estate shall be exempt from sale under an execution on a laborer's lien.
AR Code § 18-43-116 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 43 - Laborers' Liens Generally|§ 18-43-116. Land to be sold with buildings

 In selling buildings under the provisions of this section and §§ 18-43-101, 18-43-104 — 18-43-110, 18-43-112 — 18-43-115, and 18-43-117, a reasonable amount of land will be sold with them, not to exceed two (2) acres, surrounding the building.
AR Code § 18-43-117 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 43 - Laborers' Liens Generally|§ 18-43-117. Bill of sale or deed

 The officers making any sale as provided in this chapter shall make out the necessary bill of sale or deed.
AR Code § 18-43-118 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 43 - Laborers' Liens Generally|§ 18-43-118. Lien on crops

 (a) Every person who harvests agricultural crops belonging to another shall be entitled to a lien against those crops for payment of the cost of harvesting.  (b) Every person who sprays fertilizer, pesticides, or herbicides as a custom applicator on the agricultural crops or lands belonging to another shall be entitled to a lien for the payment of the custom application, and that lien shall be against those crops sprayed or the crops next harvested after the land is sprayed.  (c) The lien provided for in this section shall be filed in the manner prescribed for materialmen's liens under § 18-44-117.
AR Code § 18-46-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 46 - Medical, Nursing, Hospital, and Ambulance Service Lien Act|§ 18-46-101. Title

 This chapter may be cited as the Medical, Nursing, Hospital, and Ambulance Service Lien Act.
AR Code § 18-46-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 46 - Medical, Nursing, Hospital, and Ambulance Service Lien Act|§ 18-46-102. Definitions

 As used in this chapter:   (1) “Ambulance service provider” means a provider that renders services as defined in § 14-266-103(1) and (2);  (2) “Claim” means the claim of a patient:  (A) For damages from a tortfeasor; or  (B) For benefits from an insurer;    (3) “Hospital” means a person that maintains an establishment in which sick and injured persons are given medical and surgical care;  (4) “Injury” means impairment of bodily, nervous, or mental integrity or health;  (5) “Insurer” means a person that by a contract of insurance has undertaken to indemnify a patient against loss through injury resulting from accident or accidental means;  (6) “Patient” means a person injured through the fault or neglect of another person, for the relief or cure of whose injury a practitioner, nurse, or hospital renders service;  (7) “Person” means a natural person, a partnership, an association, or a corporation;  (8) “Practitioner” means a person licensed to:  (A) Treat human ailments under the provisions of § 17-95-202 et seq.;  (B) Practice dentistry as defined in § 17-82-102;  (C) Practice chiropractic under the provisions of the Arkansas Chiropractic Practices Act, § 17-81-101 et seq.;  (D) Practice massage therapy under the Massage Therapy Act, § 17-86-101 et seq.; and  (E) Practice physical therapy under the Arkansas Physical Therapy Act, § 17-93-101 et seq.;    (9) “Service” means personal service, food, lodging, ambulance service, medical supplies and appliances, and whatever else is reasonably necessary for the care, treatment, and maintenance of a patient; and  (10) “Tortfeasor” means a person through whose fault or neglect a person is injured.
AR Code § 18-46-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 46 - Medical, Nursing, Hospital, and Ambulance Service Lien Act|§ 18-46-103. Attorney's liens not affected

 The liens given in this chapter shall in no way repeal or affect the statutory liens now provided in favor of attorneys.
AR Code § 18-46-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 46 - Medical, Nursing, Hospital, and Ambulance Service Lien Act|§ 18-46-104. Extent of lien

 On compliance with the requirements of this chapter, a practitioner, a nurse, an orthotist, a prosthetist, a pedorthist, a hospital, and an ambulance service provider shall each have a lien:   (1) For the value of the service rendered and to be rendered by the practitioner, nurse, orthotist, prosthetist, pedorthist, hospital, or ambulance service provider to a patient, at the express or implied request of that patient or of someone acting on his or her behalf, for the relief and cure of an injury suffered through the fault or neglect of someone other than the patient himself or herself;  (2) On any claim, right of action, and money to which the patient is entitled because of that injury, and to costs and attorney's fees incurred in enforcing that lien; and  (3) For the cost of a prosthesis, orthotic, pedorthic device, or medical appliance provided to the patient.
AR Code § 18-46-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 46 - Medical, Nursing, Hospital, and Ambulance Service Lien Act|§ 18-46-106. Liens void after certain day unless action commenced

 (a) If at the expiration of one hundred eighty (180) days immediately following the day on which the most recent notice, amendatory notice, or supplementary notice of a claim of lien was filed in the office of the clerk of the circuit court, as authorized by this chapter, and if, in any event, immediately on the expiration of the period during which the practitioner, nurse, hospital, or ambulance service provider can enter action to enforce his or her or its claim against the patient for compensation for service rendered, the lien remains unsatisfied and unreleased, and no suit by the practitioner, nurse, hospital, or ambulance service provider by which notice of the lien was filed to enforce that lien is pending in any court, then the lien shall be void and of no effect.  (b)  (1) Any patient against whose claim or right of action any void lien exists may enforce that claim or right of action discharged from that lien, on delivering to the tortfeasor or insurer an affidavit showing that no action is pending against the affiant to enforce the lien claimed by the practitioner, nurse, hospital, or ambulance service provider.  (2) On filing a copy of that affidavit with the clerk of the circuit court in whose office notice of the lien was originally filed, the clerk shall enter on his or her docket and file a notation to show that the lien has lapsed and is void.    (c) If the amount claimed under any lien has been paid into court, as authorized by this chapter, remains in the custody of the court after the lien has become void, on application by the tortfeasor or the insurer by which the money was so paid, supported by a copy of the record of the circuit court showing that the lien has lapsed, then the court may return the money to the person by whom it was deposited and give him or her judgment against the lienor for interest on the money during the time it was on deposit and for costs and a reasonable counsel fee.  (d) Any person who, in order to obtain the release of an alleged lapsed lien, makes a false affidavit and delivers a copy of it to any tortfeasor or insurer or files a copy of any such affidavit in the office of the clerk of the circuit court shall be guilty of perjury and subject to the penalties prescribed for that offense.  (e) If at the expiration of the one hundred eighty (180) days stated in subsection (a) of this section an action is pending by the practitioner, nurse, hospital, or ambulance service provider to enforce a claim of lien filed by him or her, the lien shall continue in full force and effect during the pendency of that suit, unless released by the practitioner, nurse, hospital, or ambulance service provider by whom the claim was filed.
AR Code § 18-46-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 46 - Medical, Nursing, Hospital, and Ambulance Service Lien Act|§ 18-46-107. Enforcement of perfected liens — Parties

 (a)  (1) A practitioner, nurse, hospital, or ambulance service provider that has perfected a lien under the provisions of this chapter to secure the payment of a debt for service rendered may enforce that lien by any proper action against the patient, the tortfeasor, and the insurer, jointly or severally, in any court of competent jurisdiction.  (2) However, no such action shall be begun after action on the debt itself is barred by the statute of limitations.    (b)  (1) The plaintiff in any such case shall make any and all persons having interests in the subject matter of the action, of whose interest he or she has knowledge, parties defendant. Any person having an interest in the subject matter of the action who is not made a party to it may, with the consent of the court, become a party in order to protect his or her interest.  (2) Persons having an interest in the subject matter of the action include, within the meaning of this section, all persons authorized by this chapter to establish liens to secure their interests, those whose claims against the patients are not, as well as those whose claims against the patients are, due at the time of the commencement of the action.    (c) Any two (2) or more persons having liens on the same claim or right of action of any patient may join in bringing action setting forth their respective rights in their pleading.  (d) An action to which any practitioner, nurse, hospital, or ambulance service provider having a lien on the subject matter is a party shall not be dismissed without his or her consent.
AR Code § 18-46-108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 46 - Medical, Nursing, Hospital, and Ambulance Service Lien Act|§ 18-46-108. Liens assignable — Enforcement

 (a) All liens or claims of liens that accrue to any practitioner, nurse, hospital, or ambulance service providers under this chapter are assignable.  (b) Proceedings to enforce assigned liens or claims of liens may be maintained by, and in the name of, the assignee. The assignee shall have as full and complete power to enforce the lien or claim of lien assigned to him or her as if proceedings to that end were taken under this chapter by and in the name of the assignor.
AR Code § 18-46-109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 46 - Medical, Nursing, Hospital, and Ambulance Service Lien Act|§ 18-46-109. Subrogation of rights

 Any person who, with the consent of a patient injured through the fault or neglect of another person, pays to a practitioner, nurse, hospital, or ambulance service provider the amount due for service to that patient shall be subrogated to the rights of the payee with respect to the establishment and enforcement of a lien under this chapter.
AR Code § 18-46-110 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 46 - Medical, Nursing, Hospital, and Ambulance Service Lien Act|§ 18-46-110. Persons under legal disability

 If any person, because of minority, mental defect, death, or other legal disability, cannot exercise any right conferred on him or her by this chapter or discharge any duty imposed on him or her by it, that right may be exercised and that duty shall be discharged, by his or her father, mother, guardian, executor, or administrator, as the circumstances of the case require.
AR Code § 18-46-111 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 46 - Medical, Nursing, Hospital, and Ambulance Service Lien Act|§ 18-46-111. Incorporation of lien in action by patient

 If a patient has instituted an action in any court in Arkansas to enforce his or her claim against the tortfeasor through whose fault or neglect he or she was injured, or against any insurer by which he or she was insured against loss through accident or accidental means, and a practitioner, nurse, hospital, or ambulance service provider has filed in the court in which the action is pending a notice of his or her claim of lien, as authorized by this chapter, the court before which the action is pending shall have jurisdiction with respect to that claim of lien and shall embody in its judgment such an award with respect thereto as the evidence warrants.
AR Code § 18-46-112 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 46 - Medical, Nursing, Hospital, and Ambulance Service Lien Act|§ 18-46-112. Settlement of patient's claim without satisfaction of lien prohibited

 (a) A tortfeasor and an insurer, and each of them, who have been notified, as authorized by this chapter, of a claim of lien against any claim or right of action that a patient has against the tortfeasor or insurer by reason of an injury caused by the fault or neglect of a tortfeasor shall not, within sixty (60) days after the service of the notice, nor at any time after a copy of that notice has been recorded in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of the county in which the professional, nursing, hospital, or ambulance service was rendered, pay to the patient, either directly or indirectly, any money or deliver to him or her, either directly or indirectly, anything of value, in settlement or part settlement of the patient's claim or right of action, without having previously:  (1) Paid to the practitioner, nurse, hospital, or ambulance service provider that gave notice of the claim of lien the amount claimed under it; or  (2) Received a written release of the claim of lien from the practitioner, nurse, hospital, or ambulance service provider that gave notice of it, except as otherwise authorized by this chapter.    (b) A tortfeasor and an insurer, and either of them, that have been notified by a practitioner, nurse, hospital, or ambulance service provider of claim of lien under this chapter and who, directly or indirectly, otherwise than as is authorized by this chapter, pays to the patient any money or delivers to him or her anything of value as a settlement or compromise of the patient's claim arising out of the injury done to him or her shall be liable to the practitioner, nurse, hospital, or ambulance service provider for the money value of the service rendered by the practitioner, nurse, hospital, or ambulance service provider, in an amount not in excess of the amount to which the patient was entitled from the tortfeasor or insurer because of the injury.
AR Code § 18-46-113 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 46 - Medical, Nursing, Hospital, and Ambulance Service Lien Act|§ 18-46-113. Waiver or release of claim by patient

 (a) A patient who has been notified by a practitioner, nurse, hospital, or ambulance service provider of a claim of lien on any claim or right of action that the patient has because of the injury for which service was rendered shall not waive or release that claim, or any part of it, unless:  (1) The amount claimed by the practitioner, nurse, hospital, or ambulance service provider, under the lien, has been paid; or  (2) The practitioner, nurse, hospital, or ambulance service provider has in writing released his or her lien.    (b) Any waiver or release given contrary to the provisions of this chapter shall be void and of no effect.
AR Code § 18-46-114 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 46 - Medical, Nursing, Hospital, and Ambulance Service Lien Act|§ 18-46-114. Release on satisfaction or waiver of lien required

 (a) If a lien has been satisfied or waived, the practitioner, nurse, hospital, or ambulance service provider that established or waived it shall, on written demand and at the expense of the patient, or the person by whom the patient was injured, or by the insurer obligated by reason of the injury, give a written release acknowledged before a notary public.  (b)  (1) Any practitioner, nurse, hospital, or ambulance service provider that refuses or fails under the circumstances stated, for a period of five (5) days or more after a written demand is made for a release, to execute and deliver the release is liable to the demandant for injury or damage that results from refusal or failure.  (2) He or she shall forfeit to the demandant the sum of twenty-five dollars ($25.00), which may be recovered in an action for damages because of the failure, or in a civil action before a court having jurisdiction, as the circumstances of the case require.
AR Code § 18-46-115 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 46 - Medical, Nursing, Hospital, and Ambulance Service Lien Act|§ 18-46-115. Records of liens and releases

 (a)  (1) The clerk of the circuit court in each county shall maintain, at the expense of the county, a file designated and labeled “Medical, Nursing, Hospital, and Ambulance Service Provider Liens”, and an appropriate and sufficient book record and index of the liens, properly labeled.  (2) The clerk shall make a record in this book of notices of liens filed in the order in which they are filed, noting therein the names and addresses of patients of practitioners, nurses, hospitals, ambulance service providers, and other persons on whose behalf a notice of lien has been filed, and of tortfeasors and insurers.    (b) On the presentation of a release of any lien, the clerk of the circuit court of the county in which the lien is filed and recorded shall note on the file and in the record the date when the release was filed, and the clerk shall note on the release the fact that it has been so recorded. A release so noted or the record in the office of the clerk of the circuit court shall, either of them, be prima facie evidence of the release of the lien.  (c) The clerk of the circuit court shall be entitled to collect not more than fifty cents (50¢) for the filing, recording, and indexing of each lien, and not more than fifty cents (50¢) for the filing of the release of any lien and noting on the record and on the release the fact that the release has been so filed.
AR Code § 18-46-116 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 46 - Medical, Nursing, Hospital, and Ambulance Service Lien Act|§ 18-46-116. Receipt and payment of money by court

 (a) Any court having jurisdiction in an action by a patient injured through the fault or neglect of another person against the person whose fault or neglect caused the injury or against an insurer obligated by reason of that injury, and if an action has not been begun, then any court having authority to entertain an action under the circumstances stated in this subsection, if and when an action is brought, on petition or other procedure conformable to the rules of practice of the court, by the tortfeasor or by the insurer who has been notified of a claim of lien under the provisions of this chapter, may receive and impound:  (1) The amount claimed by any practitioner, nurse, hospital, or ambulance service provider under the lien; or  (2) If no amount is named in the notice of the claim of lien that has been served, then the entire amount claimed by the patient from the tortfeasor or from the insurer or any less amount that the court deems sufficient to pay the amount claimed under the claims of lien or liens as have been served.    (b) The court may pay or distribute the money in accordance with that petition, motion, or judgment and pay any remaining balance to the person by whom the money was deposited:  (1) On joint motion or petition of the patient and the practitioner or practitioners, nurse or nurses, hospital or hospitals, and ambulance service provider or providers claiming interest in the money so paid into court; or  (2) On judgment by any competent court.
AR Code § 18-46-117 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 46 - Medical, Nursing, Hospital, and Ambulance Service Lien Act|§ 18-46-117. Pro rata payment of claims

 If the amount for which a tortfeasor or an insurer is liable to the patient on account of his or her injury is not sufficient to pay in full the claims of all practitioners, nurses, hospitals, and ambulance service providers that rendered service in the case and who have given notice of liens, then each practitioner, nurse, hospital, and ambulance service provider shall share in the amount payable to the patient in the proportion that his or her claim bears to the total amount claimed by all other practitioners, nurses, hospitals, and ambulance service providers.
AR Code § 18-49-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 49 - Enforcement of Mortgages, Deeds of Trust, and Vendors' Liens|§ 18-49-101. Limitation of actions

 (a) In suits to foreclose or enforce mortgages, deeds of trust, or vendor's liens, it shall be sufficient defense that they have not been brought within the period of limitation prescribed by law for a suit on the debt or liability for the security of which they were given.  (b) When any payment is made on any existing indebtedness, before it is barred by the statute of limitations, the payment shall not operate to revive the debts or to extend the operations of the statute of limitations, with reference thereto, so far as it affects the rights of judgment lienholders and judgment creditors and third parties, unless the mortgagee, trustee, or beneficiary shall, prior to the expiration of the period of the statute of limitation, execute, acknowledge, and record a written instrument reflecting the amount and date of payments made or shall endorse a memorandum of the payment with date thereof on the margin of the record where the instrument is recorded, and the endorsement shall be attested and dated by the clerk.  (c)  (1) In all cases in which an indebtedness is secured by any mortgage, deed of trust, or instrument in which a vendor's lien is retained, the mortgage, deed of trust, or vendor's lien may be enforced or foreclosed at any time within the period prescribed by law for foreclosing mortgages or deeds of trust so far as the property mentioned or described in the deed of trust, mortgage, or other instrument is concerned.  (2) However, no claim or debt against the estate of a dead person shall be probated against the estate, whether secured by mortgage, deed of trust, or instrument retaining a vendor's lien, or not, except within the time prescribed by law for probating claims against estates.    (d)  (1) The holder of a vendor's lien, whether as the original beneficiary or as the assignee or transferee thereof, must note on the margin of the record where the vendor's lien is recorded payments relative to the indebtedness secured thereby.  (2) If the payments are not noted on the margin of the record, then the debt shall become barred, as to third parties, after five (5) years from the maturity of the indebtedness or after five (5) years from the date of the last payment, if any, which may be noted on the margin of the record, thereby subjecting evidences of indebtedness secured by vendor's lien to the same provisions and limitations provided by law in connection with evidences of indebtedness secured by mortgages or deeds of trust.