Title 35

Every laborer or employee of any sawmill or planing mill and every laborer or employee of any person, firm, or corporation engaged in the getting, cutting, rafting, shipping, hauling, or manufacturing of any kind of timber, lumber, or crossties, or in preparing timber, lumber, or…

Such lien shall have priority over all other liens, mortgages, or incumbrances created subsequent to the beginning of the work or labor done in the getting, cutting, rafting, shipping, hauling, or manufacturing of said lumber, timber, or crossties. (Acts 1915, No. 417, p. 374; Co…

The liens created by this division shall be held to have been waived or abandoned unless proceedings to enforce the same are commenced within 60 days after the work shall have been completed. (Acts 1915, No. 417, p. 374; Code 1923, §8903; Code 1940, T. 33, §79.)

For the enforcement of such liens, the person entitled thereto may sue out attachment before any officer authorized to issue such writs, returnable before any court of competent jurisdiction. Actions under the provisions of this division may either be joint or several. (Acts 1915…

Every owner of a cotton gin, peanut machine, or picker, or hay baling machine or press, or plant for drying or processing planting seeds, shall have a lien on the commodity processed thereby for the toll or charge of such processing, under any contract with the owner of the commo…

(a) When the processor retains possession of the commodity subject to the lien, and the charges or tolls due are not paid within 10 days after demand therefor, he is authorized, on giving notice for 10 days of the time and place of the sale by advertisement in some newspaper publ…

Any riparian proprietor who has lawfully erected or maintains in front of his property, in any water of this state, any boom, bulkhead, piles, or other structure, shall have right to charge any person who shall fasten thereto any vessel, boat, flatboat, raft, log or stick of timb…

For the enforcement of such lien, the owner of such boom, bulkhead, piles or other structure, may have process of attachment from any court having jurisdiction of the amount claimed leviable upon the vessel, boat, flatboat, raft, log or stick of timber or wood upon which the lien…

The owner of every stallion, jack, bull, ram, he-goat, or boar, who keeps it for profit and charges a price for the service thereof, shall have a lien, for the amount of the stipulated price thereof, on any mare, jenny, cow, ewe, she-goat, or sow, to which such stallion, jack, bu…

For the enforcement of such lien the owner of any such animal may have process of attachment from any court having jurisdiction of the amount claimed, leviable on the animal or animals upon which the lien exists: (1) When such claim is due, and the defendant, on demand fails or r…

Persons farming on shares, or raising crops by joint contributions, in such manner as to make them tenants in common in such crops, or their assignees, shall each have a lien upon the interest of the other in such crops for any balance due for provisions, supplies, teams, materia…

Such lien may be enforced by attachment upon the grounds and in the manner provided for the enforcement of the landlord’s lien on crops grown on rented lands; but this section shall not prevent the enforcement of such lien by any other remedy. (Code 1876, §3480; Code 1886, §3076;…

Any person, firm, hospital authority, or corporation operating a hospital in this state shall have a lien for all reasonable charges for hospital care, treatment, and maintenance of an injured person who entered such hospital within one week after receiving such injuries, upon an…

(a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) HEALTH CARE PAYOR. A health care insurer, health maintenance organization, or health care service plan organized under Article 6, Chapter 20, Title 10A, authorized to provide health c…

(a) During the period of time allowed by Section 35-11-371 for perfecting the lien, including that period of time during which the hospital is awaiting payment or denial by the patient’s health care payor, and also after the lien provided for by this division has been perfected b…

In any case where the action, claim, counterclaim or demand accruing to the person to whom hospital care has been furnished has been reduced to judgment in a court having jurisdiction thereof, said court shall have full jurisdiction to determine the amount due on the lien on prop…

The provisions of this division shall not apply to any moneys becoming due under the Workmen’s Compensation Act. (Acts 1955, No. 488, p. 1098, §5.)

This division shall not be construed as giving any hospital or agency referred to in this division an independent right of action to determine liability for injuries sustained by a person or firm. (Acts 1955, No. 488, p. 1098, §7.)

Every veterinarian duly licensed to practice veterinary medicine and surgery in the state of Alabama who holds a certificate of qualification as provided by chapter 29 of Title 34 shall have a lien on every animal kept, fed, treated or surgically treated or operated on by him whi…

(a) If the charges due for the services named in Section 35-11-390 are not paid within 10 days after demand therefor on the owner of said animal, in person or by registered or certified mail, addressed to him at the address given when said animal is delivered to the veterinarian,…

Every person, firm or corporation who shall do or perform any work or labor upon, or furnish any material for, any paving, curb, gutter, storm sewer, sanitary sewer or other improvement in or on any public or dedicated street, avenue, alley, or other public way, under or by virtu…

Such lien as to the land and buildings and improvements thereon shall have priority over all other liens, mortgages, or encumbrances created subsequent to the commencement of the work on any such street, avenue, alley, or any other public way. (Acts 1969, No. 1068, p. 1989, §2.)

(a) It shall be the duty of every person entitled to such a lien to file in the office of the judge of probate of the county in which the property upon which the lien is sought to be established is situated, a statement in writing, verified by the oath of the person claiming the …

Actions for the enforcement of liens under this division may be brought in the circuit court in the county in which the property is situated. Such action shall be commenced by summons and complaint. The plaintiff may by one complaint enforce his lien as to each and every parcel o…

If the court by its finding, or the jury by their verdict, as the case may be, ascertains that the plaintiff has a lien as claimed, judgment shall be entered for the amount secured thereby, interest and cost, against the party liable for the same, and establish the lien and conde…

The provisions of this Code prohibiting the bringing of actions against personal representatives within six months after the granting of letters shall not apply to actions brought under the provisions of this division. (Acts 1969, No. 1068, p. 1989, §7.)

Whenever any such lien has been fully satisfied, the holder thereof must acknowledge satisfaction of the same on the margin of the record in the office of the judge of probate and any holders of such lien who, after having been fully paid, fails for 30 days after the demand in wr…

Any claim for which a lien is provided in this division may be assigned and the assignee shall thereby be invested with all of the rights of the original holder of the lien and be entitled to all of his remedies to enforce the same. (Acts 1969, No. 1068, p. 1989, §9.)

Every person, firm, or corporation renting or leasing any appliance, machinery, or equipment to another for use in construction of a building or improvement on land or in repairing, altering, or beautifying the same or for use in clearing, draining, excavating, or landscaping of …

The lien hereby created shall arise, be perfected and enforced in the same manner as liens otherwise provided for in division 8 of this article, and shall be subject to all conditions and limitations therein provided, except to the extent as such provisions may be modified hereby…

As used in this division the following terms have the following meanings: (1) BROKER. A broker as defined in Section 34-27-2. (2) CLIENT. A person or entity having an interest in commercial real estate that has entered into a written brokerage or agency agreement with a real esta…

(a) A real estate broker shall have a lien, in the amount of the compensation agreed upon by and between the broker and his or her client, upon commercial real estate or any interest therein which is subject to and described in the brokerage agreement and owned by a client or by …

All mortgages, other liens recorded prior to the recording of the broker’s lien provided by this division, all purchase money mortgages, and all liens for ad valorem taxes shall have priority over the broker’s lien provided by this division. Knowledge by mortgagee or other lienho…

Except as otherwise provided in this section, whenever a notice of lien has been given or recorded, an escrow account may be, but is not required to be, established in an amount sufficient to release the claim for lien. These moneys shall be held in escrow by the closing agent or…

(a) Whenever a notice of lien has been filed with the office of the judge of probate and a condition occurs that would preclude the broker from receiving compensation under the terms of the broker’s written agreement, the broker shall record a written release or satisfaction of t…

(a) Any keeper, owner, operator, or proprietor of any pasture kept for grazing stock or of any cattle or livestock feed or fattening lot, or any keeper, owner, or proprietor of any stable for the development or training of horses, or any person who keeps, fattens, feeds, cares fo…

The owner, keeper, or proprietor of any premises kept for grazing, feeding, boarding, training, or confining birds or animals for another shall have a lien on all such birds or animals so kept, fed, boarded, or trained, located or confined for the payment of his charges, and shal…

(a) Owners of land, or their assignees, shall have a lien upon all livestock raised, grown, or grazed upon rented land for the rent of said land for the current year, and which shall be paramount to all other liens. The lien shall exist only when the land is leased or rented or u…

Laborers and employees of each railroad company operated in this state, except the officers thereof, shall have a lien for all debts due to them for work and labor done and performed by them for such company, which shall extend to and cover all the property, rights, effects, and …

Agricultural laborers and superintendents of plantations shall have a lien upon the crops grown during the current year in and about which they are employed, for the hire and wages due them for labor and services rendered by them in and about the cultivation of such crops under a…

For the enforcement of such liens the persons entitled may sue out attachments before any officer authorized to issue such writs, returnable before any court of competent jurisdiction. (Code 1876, §3485; Code 1886, §3080; Code 1896, §2765; Code 1907, §4797; Code 1923, §8881; Code…

An agricultural laborer or superintendent of a plantation may sue out an attachment, whether his demand is due or not; but, in either event, he shall in addition to the affidavit required under the general provisions of this chapter, make affidavit that such demand is or will be …

When an attachment is sued out by an agricultural laborer or superintendent of a plantation, it shall not be levied on a greater portion of the crop than is sufficient to satisfy the plaintiff’s demand and the costs of the action. (Code 1876, §3483; Code 1886, §3083; Code 1896, §…

All the property upon which a lien is created under the provisions of this division, or the proceeds thereof, in the hands of third parties, shall be subject to garnishment for the enforcement and satisfaction of such lien; and such garnishment, and the proceedings thereunder, sh…

No part of any crop levied on under the provisions of this division shall be removed from the premises on which it was raised until all claims for rent and advances for the current year have been satisfied. (Code 1876, §3492; Code 1886, §3087; Code 1896, §2772; Code 1907, §4804; …

Any officer enforcing the satisfaction of any lien under the provisions of this division shall first apply the proceeds of the crop or property in his hands to the payment of any debt or claim of any third party which constitutes a prior lien upon such crop or property, if the pr…