779.13 Satisfaction of judgment or lien; correction of errors.
779.135 Construction contracts, form of contract.
779.14 Public works, form of contract, bond, remedy.
779.15 Public improvements; lien on money, bonds, or warrants due the prime contractor; duty of officials.
779.155 Judgment creditors, attachment of funds due to public contractors.
779.16 Theft by contractors.
779.17 Release of funds on filing bond.
SUBCHAPTER II
OTHER LIENS
779.18 Log liens; priority.
779.19 Petition for log lien; filing same.
779.20 Action to enforce log lien; parties; costs; change of venue.
779.21 Attachment, affidavit for; undertaking; service of writ.
779.24 Lien for camp supplies.
779.25 Lien for joint log driving.
779.26 Lien of improvement companies.
779.30 Undertaking by intervenor; procedure.
SUBCHAPTER III
MINING LIENS, ETC.
779.36 Extent of lien; filing claim.
779.37 Satisfaction of lien.
779.38 Effect of mortgage.
779.39 Foreclosure of lien.
779.40 Liens for labor in quarry.
SUBCHAPTER IV
MECHANIC'S LIENS, ETC.
779.413 Liens on aircraft and aircraft engines.
779.415 Liens on vehicles for towing and storage.
779.42 Obtaining mechanic's services by misrepresentation of interest in personal property.
779.43 Liens of keepers of hotels, livery stables, garages, marinas and pastures.
779.44 Liens of consignees.
779.45 Liens of factors, brokers, etc.
779.47 Plastics fabricator's lien.
SUBCHAPTER V
BREEDING ANIMAL, THRESHING LIENS, ETC.
779.49 Lien of owner of breeding animal or methods.
779.50 Lien for threshing, husking, baling; enforcement.
SUBCHAPTER VII
MAINTENANCE LIENS
779.70 Maintenance liens.
SUBCHAPTER VIII
DISPOSITION OF UNCLAIMED ARTICLES
779.71 Disposition of articles left for laundering, dry cleaning, repair, storage.
SUBCHAPTER IX
HOSPITAL LIENS
SUBCHAPTER X
PREPAID MAINTENANCE LIEN
779.87 Escrow account or bond requirement.
779.88 Prepaid maintenance lien.
779.89 Attachment and preservation.
779.90 Notice of existence of lien.
779.91 Discharge of lien.
779.92 Enforceability of lien.
779.93 Duties of the department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection.
SUBCHAPTER XI
FEDERAL LIEN REGISTRATION
779.97 Uniform federal lien registration act.
SUBCHAPTER XII
LIENHOLDER; ACQUISITION OF PRIOR LIEN
779.98 Payment of prior real estate liens.
CONSTRUCTION LIENS
779.01
779.01
Construction liens. 779.01(1)(1)
Name of law. This subchapter may be referred to as the construction lien law.
779.01(2)
(2)
Definitions. In this subchapter unless the context or subject matter requires otherwise:
779.01(2)(a)
(a) “Improve" or “improvement" includes any building, structure, erection, fixture, demolition, alteration, excavation, filling, grading, tiling, planting, clearing, landscaping, repairing, or remodeling which is built, erected, made or done on or to land for its benefit. This enumeration is intended as an extension rather than a limitation of the normal meaning and scope of “improve" and “improvement".
779.01(2)(am)
(am) “Labor" includes any wages and related contributions for state employment taxes, worker's compensation and unemployment compensation insurance, and other fringe benefits.
779.01(2)(b)
(b) “Lien claimant" means any person who claims a lien under this section pursuant to a contract for improvement of land entered into by an owner of the land.
779.01(2)(bm)
(bm) “Materials" includes any construction materials, supplies, tools, fixtures, equipment, machinery, vehicles, fuel, and energy.
779.01(2)(c)
(c) “Owner" means the owner of any interest in land who, personally or through an agent, enters into a contract, express or implied, for the improvement of the land. Agency will be presumed, in the absence of clear and convincing evidence to the contrary, between employer and employee, between spouses, between joint tenants and among tenants in common, but there shall be a similar presumption against agency in all other cases.
779.01(2)(d)
(d) “Prime contractor" means any of the following:
779.01(2)(d)1.
1. A person, other than a laborer, but including an architect, professional engineer, construction manager, surveyor, or other service provider, employed by the owner, who enters into a contract with an owner of land who is not personally the prime contractor as defined in subd.
2. to improve the land, or who takes over from a prime contractor the uncompleted contract.
779.01(2)(d)2.
2. An owner of land who acts personally as prime contractor in improving such land.
779.01(2)(e)
(e) “Serve" or “served" means personal delivery, delivery by registered or certified mail, service in a manner described for service of a summons under s.
801.14, or any other means of delivery in which the recipient makes written confirmation of the delivery; except that in s.
779.15, with respect to serving the state, “serve" or “served" means delivery by registered or certified mail.
779.01(3)
(3)
Extent and character of lien. Any person who performs, furnishes, or procures any work, labor, service, materials, plans, or specifications, used or consumed for the improvement of land, and who complies with s.
779.02, shall have a lien therefor on all interests in the land belonging to its owners. The lien extends to all contiguous land of the owner, but if the improvement is located wholly on one or more platted lots belonging to the owner, the lien applies only to the lots on which the improvement is located.
