Title XL, Real and Personal Property

In favor of any person performing for himself or herself or others, any labor, or furnishing any materials or supplies for use in the construction of any vessel or watercraft; and in favor of any person performing for himself or herself or others, any labor or service of any kind…

In favor of any person who shall manufacture, alter or repair any article or thing of value; upon such article or thing.History.—s. 5, ch. 3747, 1887; RS 1735; GS 2201; RGS 3508; CGL 5369; s. 36, ch. 67-254.Note.—Former s. 85.12.

In favor of any person who shall furnish any logs, lumber, clay, sand, stone or other material whatsoever, crude or partially or wholly prepared for use, to any mill or other manufactory to be manufactured into any article of value; upon all such articles furnished and upon all a…

In favor of any person who shall furnish any locomotive or stationary engine, water engine, windmill, car or other machine or parts of machine or instrument for any railroad, telegraph or telephone line, mill, distillery, or other manufactory; upon the articles so furnished.Histo…

In favor of any ship chandler, storekeeper or dealer furnishing stores, provisions, rigging or other material to or for the use of any ship, vessel, steamboat or other watercraft; on such ship, vessel, steamboat or other watercraft.History.—s. 14, ch. 40, 1845; ss. 1-4, ch. 1128,…

In favor of all persons feeding or caring for the horse or other animal of another, including all keepers of livery, sale or feed or feed stables, for feeding or taking care of any horse or other animal put in their charge; upon such horse or other animal.History.—s. 1, ch. 3618,…

In favor of any veterinarian who renders professional services to an animal at the request of the owner of the animal, the owner’s agent, or a bailee, lessee, or custodian of the animal, for the unpaid portion of the fees for such professional services, upon the animal to which s…

In favor of any person who shall furnish corn, oats, hay, grain or other feed or feedstuffs or straw or bedding material to or upon the order of the owner, or the agent, bailee, lessee, or custodian of the owner, of any racehorse, polo pony or race dog, for the unpaid portion of …

The holder of a license under chapter 482 to engage in the business of pest control has and may enforce:(1) A lien on real property improved for any money that is owed to him or her for labor or services performed or materials furnished in accordance with his or her contract and …

In favor of keepers of hotels, apartment houses, roominghouses, and boardinghouses for the board, lodging and occupancy of and for moneys advanced to transient guests or tenants, upon the goods and chattels belonging to such guests or tenants in such hotel, apartment house, roomi…

In favor of any person conducting or operating any hotel, apartment house, roominghouse, boardinghouse or tenement house where rooms or apartments are let for hire or rental on a transient basis. Such lien shall exist on all the property including trunks, baggage, jewelry and wea…

It is unlawful for any person to remove any property upon which a lien has accrued under s. 713.68 from any hotel, apartment house, roominghouse, lodginghouse, boardinghouse or tenement house without first making full payment to the person operating or conducting the same of all …

(1) With regard to a residential tenancy, the landlord has a lien on all personal property of the tenant located on the premises for accrued rent due to the landlord under the rental agreement. This lien shall be in addition to any other liens upon such property which the landlor…

In favor of owners of stallions, jackasses or bulls, upon the colt or calf of the get of said stallion, jackass or bull, and also upon the mare, jenny or cow served by said stallion, jackass or bull in breeding thereof for the sum stipulated to be paid for the service thereof, by…

Any person who shall procure a loan or advance of money or goods and chattels, wares or merchandise or other things of value, to aid him or her in the business of planting, farming, timber-getting or any other kind of businesses in this state, from any factor, merchant, firm or p…

Liens for labor and liens for material provided for by this law shall take priority among themselves according to the times that the notices required to create such liens respectively were given or were recorded in the cases where record is required; that is to say, each such lie…

As against the owner of personal property upon which a lien is claimed under this part, the lien shall be acquired by any person in privity with the owner by the performance of the labor or the furnishing of the materials. There shall be no lien upon personal property as against …

A person entitled to acquire a lien not in privity with the owner of the personal property shall acquire a lien upon the owner’s personal property as against the owner and persons claiming through her or him by delivery to the owner of a written notice that the person for whom th…

(1) Any lienee may release his or her property from any lien claimed thereon under this part by filing with the clerk of the circuit court a cash or surety bond, payable to the person claiming the lien, in the amount of the final bill, and conditioned for the payment of any judgm…

A lien prior in dignity to all others except a lien for unpaid purchase price shall exist in favor of the owner, operator, or keeper of a mobile home park or recreational vehicle park for rent owing by, and for money or other property advanced to, any occupant thereof upon the go…

(1) For the purposes of this section, the term:(a) “Equivalent commercially available system” means a service that charges a fee to provide vehicle information and that at a minimum maintains records from those states participating in data sharing with the National Motor Vehicle …

(1) As used in this section, the term:(a) “Mobile home transport company” means a person regularly engaged in the business of transporting mobile homes.(b) “Store” means a mobile home transport company has legal possession of a mobile home either on the mobile home transport comp…

Any person who, as part of his or her services performed as an interior designer, furnishes any articles of furniture, including, but not limited to, desks, tables, lamps, area rugs, wall hangings, photographs, paintings or other works of art, or any items of furnishing, subject …

As used in this part, the following terms shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly requires another meaning:(1) “Interest holder” means a person, or his or her agent, holding, for oil or gas purposes or for any oil or gas pipeline, any interest in the legal or…

Any person who, under contract with an interest holder or operator, performs any labor or furnishes any material or service used or furnished to be used:(1) In the drilling or operating of any oil or gas well upon the land or leasehold of the interest holder or in the constructio…

Liens created under s. 713.803 shall extend to:(1) The leasehold interest or that portion thereof covered by an assignment, farmout agreement, or operating agreement held by the operator, whichever shall be the lesser interest, held for oil or gas purposes or for any oil or gas p…

Any person who shall, under contract, perform any labor or furnish any material or service as a subcontractor under an original contractor, or for or to an original contractor or subcontractor under an original contractor, shall be entitled to a lien for the amount due her or him…

If a lien, as provided for in this part, is imposed on an assignment, farmout agreement, operating agreement, or other equitable interest or legal interest in land or in a leasehold estate, which interest is contingent upon the happening of a condition subsequent, such lien may b…

No lien under this part, to the extent that it may extend to oil or gas or the proceeds from the sale thereof, shall be effective against any purchaser of such oil or gas until the purchaser has received proper written notice of said claim. Such notice shall state the name of the…

Nothing in this part shall be deemed to fix a liability upon an interest holder greater than the amount for which the interest holder would be liable to the original contractor. Payment made by the interest holder to the original contractor prior to notice of a subcontractor’s li…

The liens provided for in this part arise on the date of furnishing of the first item of material or service or the date of performance of the first labor. Upon compliance with the provisions of s. 713.821, such lien shall be preferred to all other titles, charges, liens, or encu…

All liens arising by virtue of this part upon the same property shall be of the same class, except that liens of persons for the performance of labor shall be preferred to all other liens arising by virtue of this part.History.—s. 1, ch. 75-51.

All labor performed, and materials and services furnished, by any person entitled to a lien under this part shall, for the purposes of this part, be considered to have been performed or furnished under a single contract, regardless of whether or not the same was performed or furn…

The manner of perfecting a lien under this part shall be the same as that provided in s. 713.08.History.—s. 1, ch. 75-51.

Any lienee may release her or his property from any lien under this part in the manner provided by s. 713.76.History.—s. 1, ch. 75-51; s. 836, ch. 97-102.

No lien provided by this part shall continue for a period longer than 1 year after the claim of lien has been recorded, unless within that time an action to enforce the lien is commenced in a court of competent jurisdiction.History.—s. 1, ch. 75-51.

(1) SHORT TITLE.—This section may be cited as the “Florida Uniform Federal Lien Registration Act.”(2) SCOPE.—This section 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 requ…