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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>78818</law_id><section_number>43-25</section_number><catch_line>Perfection and enforcement of lien</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="43">Mechanics' and Certain Other Liens</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="2">Liens on Franchises and Property of Transportation, Etc., Companies</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>No person shall be entitled to the <span class="dictionary">lien</span> given by &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Liens of employees, suppliers, etc" href="/43-24/">43-24</a> unless he shall, within ninety days after the last item of his bill becomes due and payable for which such supplies are furnished or service rendered, file in the clerk&#x2019;s office of the <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> of the county or <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> of the city in which is located the chief office in this Commonwealth of the company against which the claim is, or in the clerk&#x2019;s office of the <span class="dictionary">Circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">Court</span> of the City of Richmond when such office is in the city, or within that time shall file with the receiver, trustee or assignee of such company, a <span class="dictionary">memorandum</span> of the amount and consideration of his claim, and the time or times when the same is, or will become due and payable, verified by <span class="dictionary">affidavit</span>, which <span class="dictionary">memorandum</span>, if filed with the clerk or in his office, the clerk shall forthwith record in the miscellaneous <span class="dictionary">lien</span> book and index the same in the name of the claimant and also in the name of the company against which the claim is, as required by &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Perfection of lien by general contractor; recordation and notice" href="/43-4/">43-4</a>. Any such <span class="dictionary">lien</span> may be enforced in a <span class="dictionary">court</span> of <span class="dictionary">equity</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1919, &#xA7; 6439; 1928, p. 760.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
