Title 18 — Property

Any person, firm, or corporation having a lien under the provisions of this subchapter and retaining possession of the wagon, carriage, automobile, truck, tractor, airplane, motor-propelled conveyance, or other article repaired, or on horses or other animals shod by them, by virt…

(a) (1) The sale shall not take place until the expiration of thirty (30) days from the date the lienholder makes demand for the debt by certified letter addressed to the last known residence or post office address of the debtor as required by subsection (c) of this section.(2) (…

(a) The lienholder shall file with the circuit clerk in the county in which the lienholder is situated a notice under § 18-45-204 to be posted. (b) (1) The lienholder shall:(A) Determine the fair market value of the property to be sold; and(B) File a bond with the circuit clerk i…

(a) (1) If the lienholder has voluntarily parted with possession of any property upon which he or she has a lien under the provisions of this subchapter, he or she may still avail himself or herself of the lien within one hundred twenty (120) days after the work or labor is done …

(a) Liens accruing under this subchapter may be enforced at any time within eighteen (18) months after the accounts are filed by suits in the circuit or district court. (b) (1) If the lienholder has parted with possession of any property upon which he or she claims a lien under t…

Any person, firm, or corporation engaged in the business of repairing, rewinding, or rebuilding of electric motors, transformers, generators, and other electrical equipment who shall perform any work or labor on any object, thing, material, or property in connection with the busi…

If any person, firm, or corporation entitled to a lien under the provisions of this subchapter shall notify, by registered mail at the last known place of address, any person, firm, or corporation holding a mortgage or a lien against the property before the work or labor is done,…

Any person, firm, or corporation having a lien under the provisions of § 18-45-301 and retaining possession of the object, thing, or property serviced or repaired shall have the right to sell it for the satisfaction of the lien.

(a) (1) The sale shall not take place until the expiration of ninety (90) days from the time the work is completed.(2) If the debt is not paid at the end of that time, it shall be the duty of the lienholder, not less than ten (10) days before making the sale, to address a letter …

(a) If the lienholder has voluntarily parted with possession of any property upon which he or she has a lien under the provisions of this subchapter, he or she may still avail himself or herself of a lien by filing a just and true itemized account within ninety (90) days after th…

Cleaners, launderers, dyers, tailors, hat renovators, and shoe repairers, whether individuals, firms, or corporations, who perform work and labor on any object, thing, material, or property shall have an absolute lien on the object, thing, material, or property for the labor done…

(a) The lien provided for in this subchapter shall take precedence over, or be superior to, any mortgage or other obligation attaching against the property in all cases in which the holder of the mortgage or other obligation shall permit the property to remain in the possession a…

Any person, firm, or corporation having a lien under the provisions of this subchapter and retaining possession of the object, thing, material, or property serviced or repaired by them shall have the right to sell it for the satisfaction of the lien subject to the provisions of t…

(a) (1) The sale shall not take place until the expiration of ninety (90) days from the time the work is completed.(2) (A) If the debt is not paid at the end of that time, it shall be the duty of the lienholder, not less than ten (10) days before making the sale, to post up writt…

(a) (1) If the lienholder has voluntarily parted with possession of any property upon which he or she has a lien under the provisions of this subchapter, he or she may still avail himself or herself of the lien within ninety (90) days after the work or labor is done or performed,…

This chapter may be cited as the Medical, Nursing, Hospital, and Ambulance Service Lien Act.

(1) 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 t…

The liens given in this chapter shall in no way repeal or affect the statutory liens now provided in favor of attorneys.

(1) 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, nurs…

(1) Notice Required. In order to establish a lien under this chapter, a practitioner, nurse, hospital, or ambulance service provider shall comply with the following conditions:(1) Notice Required. (A) The practitioner, nurse, hospital, or ambulance service provider shall serve on…

(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,…

(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 insur…

(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 s…

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 t…

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 f…

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 p…

(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 tortfe…

(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…

(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 rea…

(a) (1) At the expense of the county, the clerk of the circuit court in each county shall maintain a book record that is both designated and labeled “Medical, Nursing, Hospital, and Ambulance Service Provider Liens” and includes an index of properly labeled liens.(2) A clerk shal…

(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 c…

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 no…

This subchapter applies only to federal tax liens and to other federal liens notices of which under any Act of Congress or any regulation adopted pursuant thereto are required or permitted to be filed in the same manner as notices of federal tax liens.

(a) Notices of liens, certificates, and other notices affecting federal tax liens or other federal liens must be filed in accordance with this subchapter. (b) Notices of liens upon real property for obligations payable to the United States and certificates and notices affecting t…

Certification of notices of liens, certificates, or other notices affecting federal liens by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States or his delegate, or by any official or entity of the United States responsible for filing or certifying of notice of any other lien, ent…

(a) If a notice of federal lien, a refiling of a notice of federal lien, or a notice of revocation of any certificate described in subsection (b) is presented to a filing officer who is:(1) The Secretary of State, he or she shall cause the notice to be marked, held, and indexed i…

(1) The fee for filing and indexing each notice of lien or certificate or notice affecting the lien is:(1) For a lien on real estate, six dollars ($6.00) for the first page and one dollar ($1.00) for each additional page;(2) For a lien on tangible and intangible personal property…

This subchapter shall be applied and construed to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of this subchapter among states enacting it.

This subchapter may be cited as the “Uniform Federal Lien Registration Act”.

A.C.A. § 18-47-208Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

(a) All keepers of livery, sale, or feed stables, or wagonyards shall have a lien on all horses, mules, or other stock or property left in their charge to be kept, fed, sold, or otherwise cared for and sheltered for all their reasonable costs and charges for feeding, keeping, and…

(a) (1) Whenever any person shall leave or deposit with any keeper of a livery, sale, or feed stable or wagonyard any horses, mules, or other stock or property and shall neglect or refuse to call for them and pay the reasonable charges and costs thereon to the keeper of the stabl…

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) (A) “Circuit clerk” means the office in the county where records of deeds and mortgages are kept.(B) In counties with more than one (1) county seat, it means the office where records of deeds are filed relating to the larger portion of the land …

The lien provided under this subchapter shall not apply to any stolen livestock.

(a) (1) All written contracts or copies of them, duly certified by a notary public as true and correct, shall be filed in the office of the circuit clerk of the county where the owners, or either of them, reside, if they reside in Arkansas, and also in the office of the circuit c…

(a) Holders of conditional sale contracts shall not be required to record their contracts. (b) Holders of chattel mortgages and other claimants of liens upon livestock must comply with laws relating to recording, filing, and otherwise required as notice to bona fide third parties…

(a) (1) The lien provided in this subchapter shall be first and prior to that of any conditional sale contract, recorded or filed chattel mortgage, or other encumbrance that is executed after March 27, 1957, if the person feeding, herding, pasturing, keeping, or ranching the live…

(a) Any person to whom horses, mules, cattle, sheep, hogs, or other livestock shall be entrusted by their owners or their agent for the purpose of feeding, herding, pasturing, keeping, or ranching shall have a lien upon the horses, mules, cattle, sheep, hogs, or other livestock f…

When the lien becomes effective, the person tending livestock shall be entitled to retain possession of the livestock until payment in full has been made for the feeding, herding, pasturing, keeping, or ranching.

(a) The voluntary delivery to the owners or lienholders of all livestock tended by a person tending them under this subchapter shall be held to waive or abandon the lien. (b) However, the holder of the lien under this subchapter may allow the owners of the livestock, or lienholde…