CHAPTER 399

An Act to amend and reenact § 48-17 of the Code of Virginia, relating
ie the limitation upon suits to enforce mechanics’ and material men’s
dens.

{H 158)
Approved March 15, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

ai That § 43-17 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
‘ollows:

§ 43-17. No suit to enforce any lien perfected under §§ 48-4, 43-5
and 43-7 to 43-10 shall be brought after six months from the time when *
the memorandum of lien was recorded or after sixty days from the time
the building, structure or railroad was completed or the work thereon
otherwise terminated, whichever time shall last occur; provided, however,
that the filing of a petition to enforce any such lien in any suit wherein
such petition may be properly filed shall be regarded as the institution of
a suit under this section; and, provided further, that nothing herein shall
extend the time within which such lien may be perfected.