Ala. Code § 35-11-60

Current through the 2024 Regular Session.
Section 35-11-60 - Lien declared

A lien is hereby declared on any ship, steamboat, or other watercraft, whether registered, enrolled, or licensed or not, that may be built, repaired, fitted, furnished, supplied, or victualed within this state, for work done, or material supplied by any person within this state, in or about the building, repairing, fitting, furnishing, supplying, or victualing such ship, steamboat, or other watercraft, and for the wages of the masters, laborers, stevedores, and shipkeepers of such ship, steamboat, or other watercraft, in preference to other liens thereon for debts contracted by, or owing from, the owners thereof; and for wharfage and dockage; and such lien may be asserted in any court of competent jurisdiction.

Ala. Code § 35-11-60 (1975)

Code 1876, §3465; Code 1886, §3054; Code 1896, §2758; Code 1907, §4790; Code 1923, §8870; Code 1940, T. 33, §12.