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§ 43-24. Liens of employees, suppliers, etc.

All conductors, brakemen, engine drivers, firemen, captains, stewards,pilots, clerks, depot or office agents, storekeepers, mechanics, travelingrepresentatives or laborers, and all persons furnishing railroad iron,engines, cars, fuel and all other supplies necessary to the operation of anyrailway, canal or other transportation company, and all clerks, mechanics,traveling representatives, foremen, and laborers, and superintendents to theextent of not more than $100 per week, who furnish their services or labor toany one or more individuals trading under a real or fictitious name, ornames, or to any partnership or other unincorporated body of persons, engagedin mining or manufacturing, or to any mining or manufacturing company,whether such railway, canal or other transportation or mining ormanufacturing company be chartered under or by the laws of this Commonwealth,or be chartered elsewhere and be doing business within the limits of thisCommonwealth, shall have a prior lien on the franchises, gross earnings andon all the real and personal property of such individual, partnership,unincorporated association or company which is used in operating the same, tothe extent of the moneys due them by the individual, partnership,unincorporated association or company for such wages or supplies, which lienshall be superior to, and have priority over, any amount due by suchindividual, partnership, unincorporated association or company for rents, orroyalties.

No mortgage, deed of trust, sale, hypothecation or conveyance executed sincethe first day of May, 1888, shall defeat or take precedence over such lien.The lien secured by this section to parties furnishing supplies, shall besubordinate to that allowed to clerks, mechanics, foremen, superintendents,and laborers for services furnished as aforesaid.

If any person entitled to a lien as well under § 43-3 as under this section,shall perfect his lien given by either section, he shall not be entitled tothe benefit of the other.

No right to or remedy upon a lien which has already accrued to any personshall be extended, abridged or otherwise affected hereby.

(Code 1919, § 6438; 1922, p. 13; 1932, p. 596; 1938, p. 17; 2010, c. 343.)

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Statutes > Virginia > Title-43 > Chapter-2 > 43-24

§ 43-24. Liens of employees, suppliers, etc.

All conductors, brakemen, engine drivers, firemen, captains, stewards,pilots, clerks, depot or office agents, storekeepers, mechanics, travelingrepresentatives or laborers, and all persons furnishing railroad iron,engines, cars, fuel and all other supplies necessary to the operation of anyrailway, canal or other transportation company, and all clerks, mechanics,traveling representatives, foremen, and laborers, and superintendents to theextent of not more than $100 per week, who furnish their services or labor toany one or more individuals trading under a real or fictitious name, ornames, or to any partnership or other unincorporated body of persons, engagedin mining or manufacturing, or to any mining or manufacturing company,whether such railway, canal or other transportation or mining ormanufacturing company be chartered under or by the laws of this Commonwealth,or be chartered elsewhere and be doing business within the limits of thisCommonwealth, shall have a prior lien on the franchises, gross earnings andon all the real and personal property of such individual, partnership,unincorporated association or company which is used in operating the same, tothe extent of the moneys due them by the individual, partnership,unincorporated association or company for such wages or supplies, which lienshall be superior to, and have priority over, any amount due by suchindividual, partnership, unincorporated association or company for rents, orroyalties.

No mortgage, deed of trust, sale, hypothecation or conveyance executed sincethe first day of May, 1888, shall defeat or take precedence over such lien.The lien secured by this section to parties furnishing supplies, shall besubordinate to that allowed to clerks, mechanics, foremen, superintendents,and laborers for services furnished as aforesaid.

If any person entitled to a lien as well under § 43-3 as under this section,shall perfect his lien given by either section, he shall not be entitled tothe benefit of the other.

No right to or remedy upon a lien which has already accrued to any personshall be extended, abridged or otherwise affected hereby.

(Code 1919, § 6438; 1922, p. 13; 1932, p. 596; 1938, p. 17; 2010, c. 343.)


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Statutes > Virginia > Title-43 > Chapter-2 > 43-24

§ 43-24. Liens of employees, suppliers, etc.

All conductors, brakemen, engine drivers, firemen, captains, stewards,pilots, clerks, depot or office agents, storekeepers, mechanics, travelingrepresentatives or laborers, and all persons furnishing railroad iron,engines, cars, fuel and all other supplies necessary to the operation of anyrailway, canal or other transportation company, and all clerks, mechanics,traveling representatives, foremen, and laborers, and superintendents to theextent of not more than $100 per week, who furnish their services or labor toany one or more individuals trading under a real or fictitious name, ornames, or to any partnership or other unincorporated body of persons, engagedin mining or manufacturing, or to any mining or manufacturing company,whether such railway, canal or other transportation or mining ormanufacturing company be chartered under or by the laws of this Commonwealth,or be chartered elsewhere and be doing business within the limits of thisCommonwealth, shall have a prior lien on the franchises, gross earnings andon all the real and personal property of such individual, partnership,unincorporated association or company which is used in operating the same, tothe extent of the moneys due them by the individual, partnership,unincorporated association or company for such wages or supplies, which lienshall be superior to, and have priority over, any amount due by suchindividual, partnership, unincorporated association or company for rents, orroyalties.

No mortgage, deed of trust, sale, hypothecation or conveyance executed sincethe first day of May, 1888, shall defeat or take precedence over such lien.The lien secured by this section to parties furnishing supplies, shall besubordinate to that allowed to clerks, mechanics, foremen, superintendents,and laborers for services furnished as aforesaid.

If any person entitled to a lien as well under § 43-3 as under this section,shall perfect his lien given by either section, he shall not be entitled tothe benefit of the other.

No right to or remedy upon a lien which has already accrued to any personshall be extended, abridged or otherwise affected hereby.

(Code 1919, § 6438; 1922, p. 13; 1932, p. 596; 1938, p. 17; 2010, c. 343.)