In the second of four meetings, the House Committee on Mechanics’ Liens and Leasehold Improvements of the North Carolina General Assembly heard from representatives of the banking and commercial real estate industries on Monday, February 3. Both representatives spoke forcefully against extending liens for tenant improvements to the record owner’s underlying interest in the leased property improved. (For context, you can find my coverage of the committee’s initial meeting here).
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N.C. Banking & Realtor Groups Speak Out Against Extending Liens on Leaseholds to Owners
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N.C. Liens/Bonds, They Are A-Changin’ Part I: “Perfecting” Liens Under the New Regime
As 2012 draws to a close — faster than many of us can believe — the dawn of a new era under North Carolina’s mechanic’s lien and bond statutes quickly approaches. And that means it’s high time for me to end my brief blogging hiatus with a series dedicated to helping construction industry participants throughout the state understand the changes that are rapidly coming down the pike.
By way of brief recap, legislation protecting general contractors from double payment liability on public projects and legislation protecting title insurers from “hidden liens” on private projects made splashy headlines this past summer. I’ll be delving into the nuts and bolts of those significant changes as this series continues. This post, however, is dedicated to addressing a less-publicized, but no less substantial, alteration to the lien law that every potential lien claimant will need to bear in mind in 2013, and beyond: the process by which lien rights are “perfected.”
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Latest on Lien and Bond Bills Pending in the General Assembly
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Monday is upon is, the beginning of what is likely to be the penultimate week of the General Assembly’s 2012 short session.
As my regular readers know, I’ve been tracking two key pieces of construction-related legislation: the lien law revision bill recommended by a legislative study commission, and the bill advanced by the title insurance industry to address the “hidden lien problem.”
This post provides an update on where those two bills stand, and also reports on a third construction-related bill that hit my radar last week.
7 Things You Need To Know About The Proposed Lien Law Revisions Filed in the General Assembly Yesterday
Legislation revising North Carolina’s mechanic’s lien law was filed in both the House and Senate sides of the N.C. General Assembly yesterday. Text of the legislation can be found here.While not the ambitious rewrite that members of the construction bar and real property bar had envisioned when the process of revising the statutory scheme began a few years ago, the pending legislation would make several important changes to existing mechanic’s lien law, while leaving a couple other significant issues for future legislative effort.
Click “Continue reading” below for my thoughts on the five most significant proposed changes embodied by the current revisions — as well as my thoughts on the top two “non-changes” to existing law.
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N.C. Construction Law, Policy & News 