CHaP. 62.—An ACT to amend sections 2475 and 2476 of the code of Virginia
with reference to lien for work done and materials furnished by artisans,
mechanics, lumber dealers and others.

Approved January 16, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia That sec-
lions twenty-four hundred and seventy-five and twenty-four hundred
and seventy-six of the code of Virginia be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

§ 2475. Lien for work done and materials furnished by artisans,
mechanics, lumber dealers and others.— All artisans, builders,
mechanics, lumber dealers and other persons performing labor
about or furnishing materials for the construction, repair or
Improvement of any building or structure permanently annexed to
the freehold, and all persons performing any labor or furnishing
materials for the construction of any railroad, whether they be
general or sub-contractors or laborers, shall have a lien, if perfected
as hereinafter provided, upon such building or structure, and so
much land therewith as shall be necessary for the convenient use
and enjoyment of the premises, and upon such railroad and fran-
chise, for the work done and materials furnished; but where the
claim is for repairs only, no lien shall attach to the property
repaired unless the said repairs were ordered by the owner or his
agent.

§ 2476. A general contractor and all persons performing any labor
or furnishing any materials for the construction of any building,
structure or railroad, in order to perfect the lien given by the pre-
ceding section, shall, at any time after the work done and materials
furnished, and before the expiration of sixty days from the time
such building, structure or railroad is completed or the work thereon
otherwise terminated, and from the time such labor is last per-
formed or materials furnished for the construction of any building,
structure or railroad, file in the clerk’s office of the county or corpo-
ration in which the building, structure or railroad, or any part
thereof is, or in the clerk’s office of the chancery court of the
city of Richmond, if the said building, structure or railroad is
within the corporate limits of said city, an account showing
the amount and character of the work done or materials fur-
nished, the prices charged therefor, the payments made, if any,
and the balance due, verified by the oath of the claimant or his
agent, with a statement attached declaring his intention to claim
the benefit of said lien, and giving a brief description of the prop-
erty on which he claims the lien. It shall be the duty of the clerk
in whose office such account and statement shall be filed, as herein-
before provided, to record the same in a book to be kept by him for
that purpose, called mechanics’ lien record, and to index the same
in the name as well of the claimant of the lien as of the owner of
the property, and from the time of such filing all persons shall be
deemed to have notice thereof.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.