Your Community. Your Priority. | Protecting Your Street from Wall Street
STATE EFFORTS – Here is a step-by-step plan for the legislative action
committees to protect their state priority lien law. The objective of the CAI state-level volunteer
team is to ensure your state's priority lien law is not repealed or changed
from priority lien to payment priority
FEDERAL EFFORTS – Here is a
step-by-step plan for the legislative action committees to connect with Members
of Congress to protect their state priority lien law.
BACKGROUND DOCUMENTS AND RESOURCES –
This page links you to tools that will help make your efforts successful;
including, talking points, white papers, templates, examples of success and
more.
Currently 21 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have assessment priority lien statutes (blue states):
AL, AK, CO, CT, DE, DC, FL, HI, IL, MD, MA, MN, MO, NV, NH, NJ, OR, PA, PR, RI, VT, WA, WV
Alabama: 6 months
Judicial and Non-Judicial | Delaware: 6 months
Judicial | Maryland: 4 months; $1200
Judicial | New Jersey: 6 months
Judicial | Vermont: 6 months
Judicial |
Alaska: 6 months
Judicial and Non-Judicial | DC: 6 months
Non-Judicial | Massachusetts: 6 months
Judicial | Oregon: Unlimited
Judicial and Non-Judicial | Washington: 6 months
Judicial and Non-Judicial |
Colorado: 6 months
Judicial and Non-Judicial | Florida: 12 months
Judicial | Minnesota: 6 months
Judicial and Non-Judicial | Pennsylvania: 6 months
Judicial | West Virginia: 6 months
Non-Judicial |
Connecticut: 9 months
Judicial | Hawaii: 6 months
Judicial and Non-Judicial | Missouri: 6 months
Judicial and Non-Judicial | Puerto Rico: 6 months
Judicial | |
| | Illinois: 6 months
Judicial | Nevada: 9 months
Judicial and Non-Judicial
| Rhode Island: 6 months; $7500
Judicial and Non-Judicial | |
| | | New Hampshire: 6 months
Non-Judicial | | |