SB-0600, As Passed House, June 2, 2016

HOUSE SUBSTITUTE FOR

SENATE BILL NO. 600

     A bill to amend 1937 PA 146, entitled

"An act to establish, protect and enforce by lien the rights of

laborers, contractors, sub-contractors and material men and other

persons furnishing labor, tools, or materials, or other things of

value, for the drilling, boring, torpedoing, acidizing, completing,

operating or repairing of any oil or gas well, or the constructing

or repairing of any oil or gas pipe line, oil or gas derrick, or

oil tank,"

by amending section 4 (MCL 570.254).

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

     Sec. 4. (1) Every A person, or his the person's agent or

attorney, whether contractor, sub-contractor, material man

subcontractor, or materialman, or laborer, who wishes to avail

himself of the provisions of claim the benefit of this statute,

act, shall make and record in the office of the register of deeds,

in the county or counties in which said the leasehold, oil or gas

well, pipe line, pipeline, oil or gas derrick, oil tanks,

materials, machinery, or other property to be charged with the lien

is situated, located, a just and true statement or account of the

demand due him, to the person, over and above all legal setoffs,

setting forth the time when such the materials were furnished or

labor performed, and for whom, and containing a sufficiently

correct description of the premises, leasehold, or property to be

charged with the lien to identify the same, them, and the name of

the owner, part owner, or lessee thereof, of the premises, if

known. Such

     (2) A verified statement shall under this section must be

recorded at any time after the contract is made and within 6 months

from after the date on which the last of the materials shall have

been is furnished or the last of the labor shall have been is

performed by the person claiming the lien. and

     (3) A verified statement under this section may be amended at

any time before the a final judgment or decree. Such is entered in

an action to enforce the lien.

     (4) A register of deeds shall record and index a verified

statement of lien shall be recorded and indexed by the register of

deeds under this section in the same manner as provided by law for

the recording of real estate mortgages. , and such A recording

shall have under this subsection has the same effect as to notice

as against subsequent purchasers or encumbrancers as the recording

of a mortgage. The

     (5) A register of deeds shall is entitled to receive as his

fees a fee for the recording and indexing of such liens a verified

statement of lien under this section, and all any subsequent papers

paper affecting such liens, the lien, the same fees as are provided

by law for recording a real estate mortgage under section 2567 of

the revised judicature act of 1961, 1961 PA 236, MCL 600.2567.

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect October

1, 2016.

     Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect

unless Senate Bill No. 599 of the 98th Legislature is enacted into

law.