{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-85-7-423","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 85-7-423","heading":"Shortening the time prescribed in which to file payment action.","body":"(1) An owner or an owner’s agent or attorney, or the contractor or contractor’s agent or attorney, may elect to shorten the time prescribed in which to commence a payment action to enforce any claim of lien by recording in the chancery clerk’s office a notice in substantially the form set forth in Section 85-7-433(4), along with proof of delivery to the lien claimant.\n(2) The clerk of the chancery court shall cross-reference the notice of contest of lien to the lien. The owner or the owner’s agent or attorney, or the contractor or the contractor’s agent or attorney, shall send a copy of the notice of contest of lien by registered or certified mail or statutory overnight delivery to the lien claimant at the address noted on the face of the lien within seven (7) days of filing. Service shall be deemed complete upon mailing.\n(3) The lien shall be extinguished by law upon the earlier of ninety (90) days after the filing of the notice of contest of lien, or one hundred eighty (180) days from the date of lien filing if no payment action is filed in that time period. No release or voiding of the liens shall be required. This subsection shall not be construed to extend the time in which a payment action must begin.","path":["Title 85. Debtor-Creditor Relationship","Chapter 7. Liens","Article 21. Special Liens on Real Estate or Other Property."],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.85.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:54:37Z","sha256":"db3d3df8cf99ea9ffb66e980cd7ee807fc6eab80b12bc650af3400aafe6768dd","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-85-7-421","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-85-7-425","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ms","title":"Mississippi Release 78 supplement","text":"Mississippi electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain dedication. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ms.code.ann.2018"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}