Every person who shall, by contract, express or implied, or partly expressed or implied, with the owner of any land, oil and gas permit, leasehold, lease for oil and gas purposes, or with the owner of any gas, oil, or gasoline pipeline, or with a purchaser under executory contract, or with the trustee or agent […]
The word “person” as used in this act [70-4-1 to 70-4-15 NMSA 1978] shall include one or more individuals and corporations and copartnerships. The word “subcontractor” as used in this act shall include every person entitled to the benefits thereof other than an original contractor. History: Laws 1931, ch. 11, § 10; 1941 Comp., § […]
Upon all questions arising between different persons having liens under the Oil and Gas Lien Act, no preference shall be given to him who first performed labor or furnished, or hauled, materials, tools, machinery, equipment or supplies, except that the claim of any person for labor by him personally performed is a preferred lien. History: […]
Whenever materials, tools, machinery, equipment or oil and gas supplies shall have been furnished for use or employment in the digging, drilling, torpedoing, completing, operating or repairing of any oil or gas well, or in the construction, operation or repairing of any gas pipeline, oil pipeline or gasoline pipeline, such materials, machinery, equipment or oil […]
Nothing in the Oil and Gas Lien Act shall be construed to impair or affect the right of any person, to whom any debt may be due for work done or materials, tools, machinery, equipment or supplies furnished or hauled, to maintain a personal action to recover the debt against the person liable therefor. History: […]
This act [70-4-1 to 70-4-15 NMSA 1978] shall be known as the Oil and Gas Lien Act. History: Laws 1931, ch. 11, § 15; 1941 Comp., § 69-414; 1953 Comp., § 65-5-14.
This act [70-4-1 to 70-4-15 NMSA 1978] shall not in any way affect, modify or repeal Chapter 82 of the “1929 New Mexico Statutes Annotated.” All other laws in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. History: Laws 1931, ch. 11, § 16; 1941 Comp., § 69-415; 1953 Comp., § 65-5-15. ANNOTATIONS […]
Any labor performed, or materials, machinery, tools, equipment or supplies so furnished or hauled by any person entitled to a lien under the provisions of the Oil and Gas Lien Act for the land, oil and gas permit, leasehold, lease for oil and gas purposes, or oil pipeline, gas pipeline or gasoline pipeline, shall be […]
Any person who furnishes or hauls the material, tools, equipment, machinery or supplies as, or to, a subcontractor, or any person who performs the labor for, or under, a subcontract with a contractor or subcontractor shall have a lien upon the whole of the land, oil and gas permit, leasehold, lease for oil and gas […]
Every original contractor, within two hundred ten days after the performance of the last labor or the furnishing or hauling of the last item of material, tools, machinery, equipment or supplies, and every person, except the original contractor, claiming the benefits of the Oil and Gas Lien Act within one hundred eighty days after the […]
The county clerk shall record the claim in a book kept by him for that purpose, and shall index such record as deeds and other conveyances are required by law to be indexed, and for which he may receive the same fees as are allowed by law for recording deeds and other conveyances. History: Laws […]
Nothing in the Oil and Gas Lien Act shall be deemed to fix a greater liability upon an owner than the amount contracted by the owner to be paid the original contractor; provided that the risk of all payments made to the original contractor shall be upon the owner until the expiration of the one […]
No lien provided for in this act shall bind any property subject thereto for a longer period than one year after the date on which the same is filed, unless proceedings be commenced in the district court within that time to enforce the same, or, if a credit be given, then one year after the […]
The liens herein created may be enforced by proper action in the district court in the county in which the property is situate to which the lien attaches, provided that if the property to which the lien attaches is situate in more than one county the action may be brought in any county where a […]
Any number of persons claiming liens may join in the same action, and when separate actions are commenced the court may consolidate them. The court may also allow as a part of the costs the moneys paid for filing and recording the lien, and reasonable attorney’s fees in the trial and appellate courts. History: Laws […]
