• Connecticut is an UNPAID BALANCE lien state.
• Remote contractors have lien rights in CT.

Mechanic’s Lien Speed Bumps

• According to NACM's Manual of Credit and Commercial Laws, no lien is valid unless within 90 days after the subcontractor has ceased to furnish materials or render services they file a notarized intent to claim a lien with the Town Clerk of the town in which the building, lot or plot of land is situated. In general, entities other than the original, or general, contractor have to file a notice that they intend to claim a lien with the owner within the same 90-day timeframe, and file the same notice with the original, or general, contractor provided that the general contractor properly filed an Affidavit with the Town Clerk, again within the same 90-day period after ceasing to furnish materials or render services.
• Courts to award costs and attorney fees when a plaintiff prevails in any action upon a bond that has been substituted for a mechanic’s lien.

Foreclosure Lien Speed Bumps

• The action may be by way of complaint, cross-complaint or counterclaim. In addition to the complaint, a notice of lis pendens must be filed on the land records of the town in which the lien is recorded, again, within the 1 year period.

• No contract for the construction, alteration or repair of any public building or public work of the state or a municipality that requires a person to supply the state or municipality with a bond may include a provision that requires the person to obtain the bond from a specific surety, agent, broker or producer. No contracting officer may require that a bond be obtained from a specific surety, agent, broker or producer.  
• In the event that any political subdivision of the state enters into a contract and  fails to obtain delivery from the contractor of the bond, any person who has not been paid by the contractor for labor or materials supplied in the performance of work under the contract shall have the same legal right of action against the political subdivision of the state as such person would have had against a surety under the provisions of section 49-42.