Title 10

When 2 or more proceedings are pending at the same time, in whatever court or courts, to enforce liens on the same house, building or appurtenances, wharf, pier and building thereon, upon complaint of any lienor who has commenced such proceedings, or of the owner of the building,…

When a judgment is rendered in an action authorized by chapter 601 to 631 against any house, building or appurtenances, wharf, pier or building on a wharf or pier, and the land on which it stands, or any interest that the owner of such house, building or appurtenances, wharf or p…

Any action or lien provided for or regulated under this chapter may be taken by an individual, or individuals, or may be taken on the behalf of individuals by a labor organization having the duty to represent such individual under federal law or by collective bargaining agreement…

Liens for labor described in this chapter shall include compensation for labor in the form of wages and all fringe benefits either payable to or on behalf of the laborer, including health plans, health and accident plans, retirement and retirement plans, vacation plans or funds, …

No action brought by a labor organization under this chapter shall be settled, dismissed or disposed of without the approval of the court.

Sections 3266, 3267 and 3268 shall not apply to: [PL 1973, c. 551 (NEW).] 1. Buildings. Any building designed for occupancy by not more than 4 families and its appurtenances; 2. Claims. Any claim or a portion of a claim which does not meet the time requirements of sections 3253 a…

Whoever furnishes corn or other grain or fruit for canning or preservation otherwise has a lien on such preserved article and all with which it may have been mingled for its value when delivered, including the cans and other vessels containing the same and the cases, for 30 days …

The Legislature finds that the potato industry has a substantial and unique effect on the economy of the entire State and Aroostook County in particular. A large number of people in Maine are directly or indirectly dependent upon the potato industry. In the recent past, a number …

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following words shall have the following meanings. [PL 1975, c. 725 (NEW).] 1. Commissioner. "Commissioner" shall mean the Commissioner of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. 2. Farm product or raw product. …

A producer of potatoes that the producer grows, harvests and sells to any processor under contract, express or implied, has a lien upon the product and upon all processed or manufactured forms of potatoes for the producer's labor, care and expense in growing and harvesting the ra…

Except as herein provided, the producer lien, attached to the finished product manufactured or processed by a processor shall take effect immediately upon notification by a producer within 10 business days from the date specified in the contract, express or implied, for payment o…

The producer's lien is a preferred lien attached to the finished product in inventory and to the proceeds thereof to the full extent of the price of the raw product delivered to the processor and shall be preferred to all other liens, claims or encumbrances except for the liens o…

Except as herein provided in section 3324, the lien of a producer shall remain in effect until the producer receives payment that satisfies the total claim of the producer against the processor.

This chapter does not impair or affect the right of any claimant that possesses a lien to maintain a personal action to recover that debt against a processor, either in an action to foreclose the claimant's lien or in a separate action. The claimant is not required to state in an…

The plaintiff in an action that is brought to foreclose any of the liens that are provided for in this chapter may, in a proper case, and upon proper allegations, secure an injunction against the processor to restrain the doing of any acts on the part of the processor that are de…

If in a court proceeding to foreclose such lien it is found and determined by the court that there is no cash, bond or other deposit as security for the payment of any of the lien claims as set out in the complaint, the judgment of foreclosure shall be against a sufficient quanti…

All actions filed by the commissioner or producers against any processor for the foreclosure of the liens or other security which are provided for in this chapter may be consolidated by the court and all persons that are necessary, to a determination of such action may be made pa…

1. Violation. A processor may not remove any farm product that is delivered to the processor or any processed form of the farm product upon which any of the liens that are provided for in this chapter are attached from this State or beyond the processor's ownership or control, ex…

There shall be a lien on all colts foaled in the state to secure the payment of the service fee for the use of the stallion begetting the same. Such lien shall continue in force until the foal is 6 months old and may be enforced during that time by attachment of such foal.

Whoever pastures, feeds or shelters animals by virtue of a contract with or by consent of the owner has a lien thereon for the amount due for such pasturing, feeding or sheltering, and for necessary expenses incurred in the proper care of such animals and in payment of taxes asse…

A person who labors in cutting or harvesting hay has a lien on all the hay cut or harvested by that person and that person's co-laborers for the amount due for that person's personal services and the services performed by that person's team, which takes precedence of all other cl…

Whoever presses hay or straw has a lien on all the hay or straw so pressed for the amount due for such pressing, which takes precedence of all other claims except liens reserved to the State and the lien specified in section 3401 continues for 30 days after said pressing is compl…

Every individual, partnership, firm, association, corporation, institution or any governmental unit or combination or parts of a partnership, firm, association, corporation, institution or governmental unit maintaining and operating a hospital licensed in the State is entitled to…

A lien may not be perfected unless a written notice containing the name and address of the injured person, as it appears on the records of the hospital, the date of the accident, the name and location of the hospital and the name of the person or persons, firm or firms or corpora…

1. Lien reduction; just and equitable basis. A hospital lien must be reduced by the patient's proportionate share of the patient's litigation or other recovery costs, including, but not limited to, reasonable attorney's fees. A hospital lien must be satisfied not on the basis of …

A release of such causes of action, or any of them, or of any judgment on such a cause of action is not valid or effectual as against a lien under this chapter unless the lien holder joins in the action, or executes a release of the lien, and any person or persons, firm or firms …

A municipal clerk shall, at the expense of the municipality, provide a book or card filing system to be called the hospital lien docket in which, upon the filing of a lien claim under this chapter, the clerk shall enter the name of the injured person, the name of the person, firm…

This chapter shall apply only to such charges for medical or other services furnished to persons who were injured by reason of such accidents occurring on or after October 7, 1967.

When a lease of land with a rent payable is made for the purpose of erecting a mill or other buildings thereon, such buildings and all the interest of the lessee are subject to a lien and liable to be attached for the rent due. Such attachment, made within 6 months after the rent…

In all cases where land rent accrues and remains unpaid, whether under a lease or otherwise, all buildings upon the premises while the rent accrues are subject to a lien and to attachment for the rent due, as provided in section 3451, although other persons than the lessee may ow…

Whoever performs labor or services or furnishes labor, materials or services in the laying out or construction of any road, path or walk, or in improving or beautifying any land in a manner commonly known as landscape gardening, by virtue of a contract with or by consent of the o…

A person who performs labor in a tannery where leather of any kind is manufactured completely or partially, whether that labor is performed directly on the hides and skins or in any capacity in or about the establishment, has a lien for that person's wages on all leather so manuf…

A person who labors at cutting, hauling, rafting or driving logs or lumber, or at cooking for persons engaged in such labor, or in shoeing horses or oxen, or repairing property while thus employed, has a lien on the logs and lumber for the amount due for that person's personal se…

The officer making the attachment pursuant to section 3601 may pay the boomage thereon, not exceeding the rate per thousand on the quantity actually attached by the officer, and return the amount paid on the writ of attachment, which must be included in the damages recovered. The…

A person who drives logs or lumber by contract with the owner or with any other person has a lien on those logs or lumber for the amount payable under the contract, which takes precedence of all other claims, except liens for labor, for stumpage and for towing, continues for 60 d…

A person who labors at cutting, peeling or hauling hemlock bark, or cutting, yarding or hauling cordwood, or cutting, peeling, yarding or hauling pulpwood or any wood used in the manufacture of pulpwood, or at cooking for persons engaged in such labor, has a lien thereon for the …

A person who labors in the manufacturing of last blocks, shovel handle blocks, railroad ties or ship knees, or is engaged in cooking for persons engaged in such labor, or cuts or furnishes wood for the manufacture of last blocks or shovel handle blocks, or furnishes a team for th…

A person who labors at cutting, hauling or sawing shingle, stave, lath, dowel or spool timber, or in the manufacture of shingle, stave, lath, dowel or spool timber into shingles, staves, laths, dowels or spool bars, or at piling staves, laths, dowels or spool bars, or at bunching…

A person who digs, hauls or furnishes rock for the manufacture of lime has a lien on the lime for that person's personal service, and on the rock so furnished, for 30 days after the rock is manufactured into lime or until the lime is sold or shipped on board a vessel. A person wh…

A person who, under express contract fixing the price to be paid by the other party to the contract, sells, erects or furnishes any monument, tablet, headstone, vault, posts, curbing or other monumental work has a lien on the monument, tablet, headstone, vault, posts, curbing or …

Whenever the amount due for the use of any safe or box in the vaults of any bank or safe deposit company has not been paid for one year, the bank or company may, at the expiration of that period, notify the person in whose name the safe or box stands on its books, by a notice in …

A person who performs labor or whose employees perform labor in manufacturing or repairing the ironwork or woodwork of wagons, carts, sleighs and other vehicles, aircraft or component parts, and parachutes, or so performing labor furnishes materials or provides storage by directi…

1. Filing. A lien described in section 3801 is dissolved unless the claimant files the following documents in the office of the Secretary of State within 90 days after providing the labor, storage or materials: A. A financing statement in the form approved by the Secretary of Sta…

All domestic vessels shall be subject to a lien to any part owner or other person to secure the payment of debts contracted and advances made for labor and materials necessary for their repair, provisions, stores and other supplies necessary for their employment, and for the use …

A person who furnishes labor or materials for building a vessel has a lien on it for the labor and materials, which may be enforced by attachment of the vessel within 4 days after it is launched, but if the labor and materials have been so furnished by virtue of a contract not fu…

The form of writ for enforcing such lien must be in substance as follows:"State of Maine.………, ss.To the sheriff of our County of ...., or either of the sheriff's deputies: We command you to attach the vessel" (here give such a description of the vessel as will identify it,) "in a…