Section 429.080

Title XXVII DEBTOR-CREDITOR RELATIONS

Chapter 429

Effective - 28 Aug 2005, 2 histories, see footnote   (history) 

  429.080.  Lien filed with circuit clerk, when. — It shall be the duty of every original contractor, every journeyman and day laborer, and every other person seeking to obtain the benefit of the provisions of sections 429.010 to 429.340, within six months after the indebtedness shall have accrued, or, with respect to rental equipment or machinery, within sixty days after the date the last of the rental equipment or machinery was last removed from the property, to file with the clerk of the circuit court of the proper county a just and true account of the demand due him or them after all just credits have been given, which is to be a lien upon such building or other improvements, and a true description of the property, or so near as to identify the same, upon which the lien is intended to apply, with the name of the owner or contractor, or both, if known to the person filing the lien, which shall, in all cases, be verified by the oath of himself or some credible person for him.

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(RSMo 1939 § 3551, A.L. 1986 H.B. 942, et al., A.L. 2005 S.B. 320)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 3161; 1919 § 7221; 1909 § 8217

CROSS REFERENCES:

Liens on property, where filed in Kaw township, Jackson County, RSMo 478.483

Lewis County, RSMo 478.353