ENGROSSED
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
Senate Bill No. 289
(By Senators Sharpe, Ross and Helmick)
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[Originating in the Committee on the Judiciary;
reported February 23, 1994.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact section six-a, article two, chapter thirty-eight of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to mechanics' liens; granting a mechanic's lien to surveyors for materials furnished, work done or services provided; and providing for the perfection and preservation of certain mechanics' liens.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section six-a, article two, chapter thirty-eight of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

ARTICLE 2. MECHANICS' LIENS.

§38-2-6a. Lien of architect, surveyor, engineer or landscape architect.

An architect, surveyor, engineer or landscape architect shall have a lien for his or her compensation as provided for insections one through six, inclusive, of this article for all materials furnished and all work done, or all services provided by such architect, surveyor, engineer and landscape architect as a contractor, subcontractor, materialman, mechanic or laborer, as the case may be. The lien shall be perfected and preserved in accordance with, and shall otherwise be subject to, the provisions of this article governing liens for contractors, subcontractors, materialmen, mechanics or laborers, as the case may be.