Article 2.
Statutory Liens on Real Property.
Part 1. Liens of Mechanics, Laborers and Materialmen Dealing with Owner.
§ 44A-7. Definitions.
Unless the context otherwise requires in this Article:
(1) "Improved" 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 83A, 89A or
89C of the General Statutes, and rental of equipment directly utilized on
the real property in making the improvement.
(2) "Improvement" means all or any part of any building, structure,
erection, alteration, demolition, excavation, clearing, grading, filling, or
landscaping, including trees and shrubbery, driveways, and private roadways,
on real property.
(3) An "owner" is a person who has an interest in the real property improved
and for whom an improvement is made and who ordered the improvement to be
made. "Owner" includes successors in interest of the owner and agents of the
owner acting within their authority.
(4) "Real property" means the real estate that is improved, including lands,
leaseholds, tenements and hereditaments, and improvements placed
thereon.(1969, c. 1112, s. 1; 1975, c. 715, s. 1; 1985, c. 689, s. 13; 1995
(Reg. Sess., 1996), c. 607, s. 1.) |