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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
A person who performs labor or whose employees perform labor in manufacturing or repairing the ironwork or woodwork of wagons, carts, sleighs and other vehicles, aircraft or component parts, and parachutes, or so performing labor furnishes materials or provides storage by direction or consent of the owner, has a lien on the vehicle, aircraft or component parts, and parachutes for that person's reasonable charges for that labor and for materials used in performing that labor and for that storage, which takes precedence of all other claims and incumbrances on those vehicles, aircraft or component parts, and parachutes not made to secure a similar lien, and may be enforced by attachment at any time within 90 days after the labor is performed or the materials or storage furnished and not afterwards, as long as a claim for the lien is duly filed as required in section 3802. The lien must be dissolved if the property has actually changed ownership prior to the filing.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Maine Revised Statutes Title 10. Commerce and Trade § 3801. Vehicles, aircraft and parachutes - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/me/title-10-commerce-and-trade/me-rev-st-tit-10-sect-3801/
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