{"data":{"id":"us-ne/neb.-rev.-stat.-57-801","jurisdiction":"us-ne","citation":"Neb. Rev. Stat. § 57-801","heading":"Neb. Rev. Stat. § 57-801","body":"As used in sections 57-801 to 57-820 , unless the context otherwise requires:\n\n(1) Person shall mean an individual, corporation, firm, partnership, limited liability company, or association;\n\n(2) Owner shall mean a person or persons holding any interest, legal or equitable, in a leasehold interest held for oil or gas purposes or any pipeline, or his or her agent, and shall include purchasers under executory contract, receivers, trustees, guardians, executors, and administrators;\n\n(3) Contract shall mean a contract, written or oral, express or implied, or partly express and partly implied, or executory or executed, or partly executory and partly executed;\n\n(4) Material shall mean material, water, machinery, equipment, appliances, buildings, structures, tools, bits, or supplies but does not include rigs or hoists or their integral component parts except wire lines;\n\n(5) Labor shall mean work performed in return for wages;\n\n(6) Services shall mean work performed exclusive of labor, including the hauling of material, whether or not involving the furnishing of materials;\n\n(7) Furnish shall mean sell or rent;\n\n(8) Drilling shall mean drilling, digging, torpedoing, acidizing, cementing, completing, or repairing;\n\n(9) Operating shall mean all operations in connection with or necessary to the production of oil or gas;\n\n(10) Construction or constructing shall mean construction, maintenance, fabrication, or repair;\n\n(11) Pipeline shall mean any pipeline laid and designed as a means of transporting natural gas, oil, or gasoline, or their components or derivatives, and the right-of-way therefor; and\n\n(12) Original contractor shall mean any person for whose benefit a lien is prescribed by section 57-802 .","path":["NE Code","Chapter 57"],"source_url":"https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=57-801","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:21Z","sha256":"d8fcd522795ea71c03c7039e4d41a4c5e770d8a2038a0699c4dac7ad57223f85","source_id":"us-ne","stale":false,"prev":"us-ne/neb.-rev.-stat.-57-719","next":"us-ne/neb.-rev.-stat.-57-802"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}