Virgin Islands Mechanics Lien Form
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Get help filing your Virgin Islands Mechanics Lien
When unpaid on a construction project in the US Virgin Islands, parties may file a mechanics lien to secure their right to payment. The Virgin Islands mechanics lien must be filed with the Recorder of Deeds in the US Virgin Islands. If a Notice of Commencement was filed on the project, get a copy (or document reference number), as the mechanics lien must identify the Notice of Commencement and its recording number within the lien. Also, when sending notice of the lien to the owner, send it to the agent referenced within the NOC.
Rules and regulations for sending a Virgin Islands Mechanics Lien
In the US Virgin Islands, a mechanics lien must be filed within 90 days of your last date of furnishing labor and/or materials to the project. This marks the expiration of that period, and your claim of lien for this project must be filed before this date. If the project is bonded, the deadline is reduced to 60 days. To calculate this date, add your last furnishing date as the “Date of Last Furnishing” to a “Project with a Payment Bond.”
After completing the Virgin Islands Mechanics Lien Form, you must deliver it to the appropriate parties required by statute. Notices are typically served on the property owner and, for sub-tier parties, the general contractor. However, depending on the type of notice, it can be helpful to send notices to anyone else who is in charge of your payment, like a lender or surety company on the project.
Others are asking about Virgin Islands Mechanics Lien
Can we use a subsequent invoice to preserve our repayment rights on prior invoices that are beyond the 90 day period?
What deadline did I miss?
I filed the Mechanics Lien close to the 60 days
The basic deadline to record a mechanics lien is 90 days after completion of the entire work of improvement. The deadline is shorter if the owner records a notice of completion and serves it on the contractor and subcontractors - 30 days for subs and 60 days for a direct contractor. The lien is premature if the lien claimant is still providing work when the lien is recorded. (See Civil Code, §§ 8180, 8412, 8414.) If April 21 is the date the entire project was complete, and no notice of completion was recorded and served, the deadline to record a lien should be July 20.