                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

LIENS OF EMPLOYEES, SUPPLIERS, ETC (§ 43-24)

All conductors, brakemen, engine drivers, firemen, captains, stewards, pilots,
clerks, depot or office agents, storekeepers, mechanics, traveling
representatives or laborers, and all persons furnishing railroad iron, engines,
cars, fuel and all other supplies necessary to the operation of any railway,
canal or other transportation company, and all clerks, mechanics, traveling
representatives, foremen, and laborers, and superintendents to the extent of not
more than $100 per week, who furnish their services or labor to any one or more
individuals trading under a real or fictitious name, or names, or to any
partnership or other unincorporated body of persons, engaged in mining or
manufacturing, or to any mining or manufacturing company, whether such railway,
canal or other transportation or mining or manufacturing company be chartered
under or by the laws of this Commonwealth, or be chartered elsewhere and be
doing business within the limits of this Commonwealth, shall have a prior lien
on the franchises, gross earnings and on all the real and personal property of
such individual, partnership, unincorporated association or company which is
used in operating the same, to the extent of the moneys due them by the
individual, partnership, unincorporated association or company for such wages or
supplies, which lien shall be superior to, and have priority over, any amount
due by such individual, partnership, unincorporated association or company for
rents, or royalties.
		No mortgage, deed of trust, sale, hypothecation or conveyance executed since
the first day of May, 1888, shall defeat or take precedence over such lien. The
lien secured by this section to parties furnishing supplies, shall be
subordinate to that allowed to clerks, mechanics, foremen, superintendents, and
laborers for services furnished as aforesaid.
		If any person entitled to a lien as well under § 43-3 as under this section,
shall perfect his lien given by either section, he shall not be entitled to the
benefit of the other.
		No right to or remedy upon a lien which has already accrued to any person
shall be extended, abridged or otherwise affected hereby.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 6438; 1922, p. 13; 1932, p. 596; 1938, p. 17; 2010, c.
343.