Any person furnishing labor, equipment, material, or supplies used or consumed for the improvement of real property, under a contract with the owner or with the trustee, agent or spouse of the owner, shall have a lien upon the property for the labor, equipment, material or supplies furnished at the site of the property subject to the lien, and for the cost of transporting the same. The lien shall be preferred to all other liens or encumbrances which are subsequent to the commencement of the furnishing of such labor, equipment, material or supplies by such claimant at the site of the property subject to the lien. When two or more such contracts are entered into applicable to the same improvement, the liens of all claimants shall be similarly preferred to the date of the earliest unsatisfied lien of any of them. If an earlier unsatisfied lien is paid in full or otherwise discharged, the commencement date for all claimants shall be the date of the next earliest unsatisfied lien.
K.S.A. 60-1101
Liens of contractors; priority
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case 91 Wash. App. 297 - TPST Soil Recyclers of Washington, Inc. v. W.F. Anderson Construction, Inc. (1998)
Most recently applied in Brown Commercial Construction Co. v. Corbin Park, L.P. (In Re Corbin Park, L.P.) (May 2012)
L. 1963, ch. 303, 60-1101; L. 1965, ch. 355, § 5; L. 1972, ch. 223, § 1; L. 1977, ch. 203, § 1; L. 1978, ch. 230, § 1; L. 1982, ch. 248, § 1; L. 2005, ch. 95, § 1; July 1.
Official source: Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Kansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.