Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

514.04 LINES OF RAILWAY, TELEGRAPH, OR SIMILAR PROJECTS. If such contribution be thus made for the construction, alteration, or repair of any line of railway, or any structure or appurtenance of such railway, or of any telegraph, telephone, or electric light line, or of any line …

514.05 WHEN LIEN ATTACHES; NOTICE. § Subdivision 1.Generally. All liens, as against the owner of the land, shall attach and take effect from the time the first item of material or labor is furnished upon the premises for the beginning of the improvement, and shall be preferred to…

514.06 TITLE OF VENDOR OR CONSENTING OWNER, SUBJECT TO. When land is sold under an executory contract requiring the vendee to improve the same, and such contract is forfeited or surrendered after liens have attached by reason of such improvements, the title of the vendor shall be…

514.07 PAYMENTS WITHHELD; LIEN WAIVERS. The owner may withhold from the owner's contractor as much of the contract price as may be necessary to meet the demands of all persons, other than the contractor, having a lien upon the premises for labor, skill, or material furnished for …

514.08 STATEMENT; NOTICE; NECESSITY FOR RECORDING; CONTENTS. § Subdivision 1.Notice required. The lien ceases at the end of 120 days after doing the last of the work, or furnishing the last item of skill, material, or machinery, unless within this period: (1) a statement of the c…

514.09 TWO OR MORE BUILDINGS. A lienholder who has contributed to the erection, alteration, removal, or repair of two or more buildings or other improvements situated upon or removed to one lot, or upon or to adjoining lots, under or pursuant to the purposes of one general contra…

514.10 FORECLOSURE OF LIENS. Such liens may be enforced by action in the district court of the county in which the improved premises or some part thereof are situated, or, if claimed under section 514.04, of any county through or into which the railway or other line extends, whic…

514.11 COMMENCEMENT OF ACTION; PROCEEDINGS. The action may be commenced by any lienholder who has filed a lien statement for record and served a copy thereof on the owner pursuant to section 514.08, and all other such lienholders shall be made defendants therein. The summons shal…

514.12 NOTICE OF LIS PENDENS. § Subdivision 1.Recording. At the beginning of the action the plaintiff shall file for record with the county recorder or, if registered land, with the registrar of titles of the county in which it is brought, and of the several counties if the lien …

514.13 STATUTORY LIENHOLDER RIGHTS; NONEXCLUSIVE. The rights granted by this chapter are nonexclusive. No failure to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter shall affect the right of any person to recover, in an ordinary civil action, from the party with whom a contract…

514.135 COMPUTATION OF INTEREST ON CLAIMS. Except as otherwise provided by contract, interest awarded on mechanics' lien claims shall be calculated at the legal rate, as provided in section 334.01, from the time the underlying obligation arises until the expiration of 30 days aft…

514.14 POSTPONEMENT, JUDGMENT, SUBROGATION. If upon the trial of such action, or at any time before the execution of final judgment therein, it shall transpire that any proper party who may still be brought in has been omitted, or that any party then entitled to answer has not ye…

514.15 JUDGMENT, SALE, REDEMPTION. The judgment shall direct a sale of the real estate or other property for the satisfaction of all liens charged thereon, and the manner of such sale, subject to the rights of all persons which are paramount to such liens or any of them. It shall…

514.16 SEVERANCE OF BUILDING, RESALE, RECEIVER. If, without material injury to the building or other improvement to which the lienholder has contributed, the same can be severed and removed from the land, the judgment, in the discretion of the court, may direct the sale of such i…

514.17 MINERS. Whoever performs labor, or furnishes any skill, material, or machinery, in or about the opening or working of any mine, at the request of the owner thereof, or of the lessee of such owner, or of any contractor with either, shall have a lien for the value thereof up…

514.18 RETAINING. § Subdivision 1.Mechanics' lien on personal property. Whoever, at the request of the owner or legal possessor of any personal property, shall store or care for or contribute in any of the modes mentioned in section 514.19 to its preservation, care, or to the enh…

514.19 RIGHT OF DETAINER. A lien and right of detainer exists for: (1) transporting property, other than harvested crops or livestock, from one place to another but not as a carrier under article 7 of the Uniform Commercial Code; (2) keeping or storing property, other than harves…

514.20 SALE. If any sum secured by such lien be not paid within 90 days after it becomes due, the lienholder may sell the property and out of the proceeds of such sale there shall be paid, first, the disbursements aforesaid; second, all charges against the property paid by such p…

514.21 SALE, WHEN AND WHERE MADE; NOTICE. § Subdivision 1.Generally. The sale herein provided for shall be made at public auction between nine o'clock in the morning and five o'clock in the afternoon in the county where the property or some part thereof is situated. A notice stat…

514.22 CONDUCT OF SALE. The property sold, as herein provided, shall be in view at the time of the sale. Under the power of sale hereby given enough of the property may be sold to satisfy the amount due at the time of sale, including expenses, and the property, if under cover, ma…

514.221 CREATION; PERFECTION; ENFORCEABILITY. § Subdivision 1.Lien created. Upon compliance with the requirements of subdivision 2, any person who makes, alters, repairs, or otherwise enhances the value of any aircraft at the request of the owner or legal possessor, and who parts…

514.40 LIENS, PREFERENCE. Whoever performs manual labor or other personal service for hire, in or in aid of the cutting, sawing, piling, loading, peeling, hauling, banking, driving, rafting, towing, cribbing, or booming any logs, crossties, poles, or other timber shall have a lie…

514.41 LIEN STATEMENT, FILING; ASSIGNMENT OF LIEN. If the indebtedness so due be not paid within five days after demand therefor made upon the debtor in person, or upon some agent or court administrator of the debtor at the debtor's business office, the lienholder may file for re…

514.42 TERMINATION OF LIEN. The lien shall cease unless said statement be so filed within 30 days after the termination of such labor or service, unless the same shall have been wholly performed between October 1 and April 1 next thereafter, in which case the statement may be fil…

514.43 ACTION; ATTACHMENT. The lien shall be enforced by attaching the property subject thereto in a civil action in the district court of any county of the judicial district in which the labor or service was performed, or within which judicial district is situated the office of …

514.44 ALLOWANCE AND ISSUE OF WRIT. The affidavit for such attachment shall be made by or in behalf of the plaintiff, shall be entitled in the action, shall set forth the amount of indebtedness secured by the lien and then unpaid, with the name of the debtor, and a copy of the li…

514.45 CONTENTS AND LEVY OF WRIT. Such writ shall contain a description of the property, substantially as set forth in the lien statement and shall require the sheriff or other proper officer to attach and safely keep the same, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy…

514.46 LOGS SCALED TO OFFICER; WHERE HELD; FEES. The officer serving such writ, if necessary to save the property from loss, shall have such logs or other timber scaled to the officer in any boom to which they may have arrived, but the officer shall not delay the driving thereof …

514.47 PLEADINGS; PRIORITY OF LIENS. The complaint shall allege the facts upon which the plaintiff's right to a lien depends, and the averments thereof shall be taken as true unless expressly denied by answer. When more than one lien is claimed on the same property, they shall ha…

514.48 DISCHARGE OF ATTACHMENT; BOND. The defendant, or any person entitled to defend, upon presenting an affidavit showing a valid defense to the whole or some part of the plaintiff's claim, and upon paying into court such part thereof as the defendant admits, with costs and dis…

514.49 FINDINGS, JUDGMENT, COSTS. Upon the trial of such action the court or jury, in addition to finding the sum due to plaintiff, shall find how much thereof is due for labor or service upon the property described in the complaint, and how much of such property is subject to pl…

514.50 EXECUTION SALE. The judgment shall be enforced by execution sale of the property found subject to the lien, if any there be; if not, execution shall issue in ordinary form for the amount recovered. If a part only of the recovery be secured by the lien, separate executions …

514.51 OBSTRUCTING OR INTERMIXED LOGS. Any person desiring to float logs or other timber in any of the streams or waters of this state, and being hindered or obstructed in so doing by the logs or timber of another, or any person whose logs or timber shall become so intermingled t…

514.54 TIMBER CUT IN OTHER STATES. If such logs or other timber are cut in another state, and are thence rafted or otherwise transported into this state, any person who has performed labor or service thereon for which the person would have been entitled to a lien if the same had …

514.55 STRAY TIMBER SECURED IN OTHER STATES. Any person authorized by the laws of another state so to do, who shall pick up or secure lost or stray logs, timber, or other floating property upon any waters of that state whereon there is, during the season of navigation, an actual …

514.56 PRESERVATION AND ENFORCEMENT. The liens provided for in sections 514.54 and 514.55 shall be preserved and enforced as in the case of labor liens, except that no demand for payment need be made before the lien statement is filed, and that the lien statement, in addition to …

514.57 COMMISSIONER OF NATURAL RESOURCES; LIEN FOR CHARGES. To secure the payment of fees, mileage, and other charges for official services relating to logs, timber, and lumber, the commissioner of natural resources shall have a lien upon the same, which the commissioner may reta…

514.58 SALE AND DISTRIBUTION OF PROCEEDS. If the amount of such lien be not paid within 60 days after delivery of the scale bill and statement aforesaid, the property so seized may be sold at auction by the sheriff of the county upon ten days' posted notice. One copy of the notic…

514.59 WAGES, LIEN AS AGAINST SEIZURE. Every employee has a lien upon all the property of that person's employer, as against any attachment or execution levied thereon, for the security of the employee's wages earned within the six months last preceding, to an amount not exceedin…

514.60 NOTICE TO SHERIFF; PROPERTY HELD. Within five days after such levy the lienholder shall give to the officer making the same a written notice of the amount and grounds of the lienholder's claim; whereupon the officer shall hold the property, or the proceeds thereof in case …

514.61 DEATH OR DISSOLUTION OF EMPLOYER. The lien shall also exist, as against all other creditors, in case of the death, dissolution, or insolvency of the employer. The notice provided for in section 514.60 shall, in such case, be given to the personal representative of the dece…

514.661 LIEN FOR RENTAL VALUE OF FARM MACHINERY DURING MEDIATION. § Subdivision 1.Definitions. The definitions in this section apply to this section. (a) "Reasonable rental value" means an amount not more than the rental value of machinery of like capacity and age as determined b…

514.67 INSPECTIONS, EXAMINATIONS, OR OTHER GOVERNMENTAL SERVICES. All charges and expenses for any inspection, examination, or other governmental service of any nature now or hereafter authorized or required by law, including services performed by a deputy registrar of motor vehi…

514.671 DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Applicability. The definitions in this section apply to sections 514.671 to 514.676. § Subd. 2.Agency. "Agency" means the Pollution Control Agency and the commissioner of agriculture. § Subd. 3.Cleanup action. "Cleanup action" means corrective…

514.672 ENVIRONMENTAL LIEN. § Subdivision 1.Lien amount; property subject to lien. All cleanup action expenses for which a person is liable to the state under section 115B.04 or 115C.04, constitute a lien in favor of the state upon all real property that: (1) is owned by the pers…

514.673 ENVIRONMENTAL LIEN NOTICE. § Subdivision 1.Contents. An environmental lien notice must state: (1) the name of the record owner of the real property where the environmental lien attached; (2) the legal description of the real property where the environmental lien attached;…