NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 715

HOUSE BILL 1088

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF "IMPROVE" IN REGARD TO LIENS TO INCLUDE THE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES PERFORMED BY REGISTERED ARCHITECTS, ENGINEERS, LAND SURVEYORS AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 44A-7(1), as the same appears in the 1974 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 2A of the General Statutes, is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"(1)      'Improve' means to build, effect, alter, repair, or demolish any improvement upon, connected with, or on or beneath the surface of any real property, or to excavate, clear, grade, fill or landscape any real property, or to construct driveways and private roadways, or to furnish materials, including trees and shrubbery, for any of such purposes, or to perform any labor upon such improvements, and shall also mean and include any design or other professional or skilled services furnished by architects, engineers, land surveyors and landscape architects registered under Chapter 83, 89 or 89A of the General Statutes."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 44A-8, as it appears in the 1974 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 2A of the General Statutes, is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"§ 44A-8.  Mechanics, laborers and materialmen's lien; persons entitled to lien. — Any person who performs or furnishes labor or professional design or surveying services or furnishes materials pursuant to a contract, either express or implied, with the owner of real property, for the making of an improvement thereon shall, upon complying with the provisions of this Article, have a lien on such real property to secure payment of all debts owing for labor done or professional design or surveying services or material furnished pursuant to such contract."

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1975.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of June, 1975.