November 4, 2015, Introduced by Senators MACGREGOR, HERTEL, ZORN and BOOHER and referred to the Committee on Banking and Financial Institutions.
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 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.