                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

LIMITATION ON SUIT TO ENFORCE LIEN (§ 43-17)

No suit to enforce any lien perfected under §§ 43-4, 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.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 6433; 1926, p. 43; 1956, c. 399.