4 deadlines NoticeGuard models for Arizona: what each one counts from, the statute it was read from, and the statute text.
Information, not legal advice. This app reports what the statute says and cites the section it read. It is not legal advice, it does not file anything for you, and it does not tell you what to do.
Verify with the statute or an attorney. Statutes change, and courts reinterpret them. Every deadline in this app comes from a statute read on the date shown next to its citation - that snapshot can go out of date. Missing a mechanics lien deadline can extinguish your claim permanently, so confirm any deadline you are relying on with an attorney licensed in that state before you act on it.
Data verified: statute text retrieved 2026-09-20 (each citation below carries its own date). Rule data from the NoticeGuard app, source commit 22f9300.
Served on the owner, the original contractor, and the construction lender (if any), counted from the day you first furnished labor, professional services, materials, machinery, fixtures, or tools to the jobsite.
What it counts from. 20 days after first furnishing (commenced work).
Applies to. Original contractor, Subcontractor, Supplier, Preconstruction service.
Arizona Revised Statutes § 33-992.01 (C) Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-20
“The preliminary twenty day notice referred to in subsection B of this section shall be given not later than twenty days after the claimant has first furnished labor, professional services, materials, machinery, fixtures or tools to the jobsite and shall contain the following information...”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). § 33-992.01(B): every person who furnishes labor, professional services, materials, machinery, fixtures, or tools "shall, as a necessary prerequisite to the validity of any claim of lien, serve" this notice.
Also stated next to this deadline.
Exempt: "a person performing actual labor for wages" (§ 33-992.01(B)) - no role modeled in this app is a wage laborer, so this app applies the notice requirement to every role, including the original contractor, unlike Florida's privity-based exemption.
Subsection E: a person who elects to skip an early preliminary notice is not barred from giving a later one - but the lien is only good for work furnished within the 20 days before that later notice and afterward, not the whole job.
Subsection G: generally only one notice is needed per job, unless the estimated total price grows 30% or more beyond what an earlier notice stated, or new work is added under a separate subcontract.
Record notice and claim of lien (no notice of completion recorded)
Recorded with the county recorder, counted from completion of the building, structure, or improvement.
What it counts from. 120 days after final completion of the original contract.
Applies to. Original contractor, Subcontractor, Supplier, Preconstruction service (when no date is entered for notice of completion filed).
Arizona Revised Statutes § 33-993 (A) Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-20
“In order to impress and secure the lien provided for in this article, every person claiming the benefits of this article, within one hundred twenty days after completion of a building, structure or improvement, or any alteration or repair of such building, structure or improvement, or if a notice of completion has been recorded, within sixty days after recordation of such notice, shall make duplicate copies of a notice and claim of lien and record one copy with the county recorder of the county in which the property or some part of the property is located...”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). The statute states the notice and claim of lien must be recorded no later than this date "in order to impress and secure the lien."
Also stated next to this deadline.
"Completion" (§ 33-993(C)) means the earliest of: 30 days after final inspection and written final acceptance by the governmental body that issued the building permit, or cessation of labor for 60 consecutive days (excluding a strike, materials shortage, or act of God). If no permit was issued or the governmental body does not issue final inspections/acceptances, "completion" (§ 33-993(D)) means the last date any labor, materials, fixtures, or tools were furnished - this app treats the date you enter as whichever definition actually applies to your project.
If a notice of completion is later recorded under § 33-993(E), the shorter 60-day rule applies instead - see the sibling rule below.
Record notice and claim of lien (notice of completion recorded)
Recorded with the county recorder, counted from recordation of the notice of completion, replacing the 120-day default outright.
What it counts from. 60 days after notice of completion filed.
Applies to. Original contractor, Subcontractor, Supplier, Preconstruction service (when a date is entered for notice of completion filed).
Arizona Revised Statutes § 33-993 (A) Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-20
“...or if a notice of completion has been recorded, within sixty days after recordation of such notice, shall make duplicate copies of a notice and claim of lien and record one copy with the county recorder of the county in which the property or some part of the property is located...”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). The statute states the notice and claim of lien must be recorded no later than this date "in order to impress and secure the lien."
Also stated next to this deadline.
Unlike Utah's equivalent shortened-period rule, § 33-993(A) states no separate outer cap for this 60-day count - it plainly replaces the 120-day default once a notice of completion is recorded, the same either/or shape as Florida's notice-of-contest mechanism, not a minimum-of-two-dates cap.
If the owner or agent fails to mail a copy of the recorded notice of completion and recording information within 15 days as § 33-993(I) requires, a person who had given a preliminary notice keeps the full 120 days from completion instead - a data-dependent extension this rule set does not track.
File action to foreclose the lien
Counted from the day the notice and claim of lien was recorded. If no action is filed (and a notice of pendency of action recorded) within this period, the lien stops continuing.
What it counts from. 180 days after notice of construction lien recorded.
Applies to. Original contractor, Subcontractor, Supplier, Preconstruction service.
Arizona Revised Statutes § 33-998 (A) Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-20
“A lien granted under the provisions of this article shall not continue for a longer period than six months after it is recorded, unless action is brought within that period to enforce the lien and a notice of pendency of action is recorded pursuant to section 12-1191 in the office of the county recorder in the county where the property is located.”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). The statute's own mechanism is that the lien "shall not continue for a longer period than six months after it is recorded" without a timely-filed action and a recorded notice of pendency - it does not use Utah's "automatically and immediately void" language or Florida's "extinguished automatically" language, so that stronger wording is not used here either.
Also stated next to this deadline.
Approximated as 180 calendar days (6 months × 30), the same approximation style used throughout this app. Six calendar months is 181 to 184 days, so this date always lands on or before the statutory one - never after it.
§ 33-998(A), second sentence: if a lien claimant is instead made a defendant in another lienor's own foreclosure suit, filing an answer or cross-claim asserting the lien within the same six months counts as commencing an action - a real alternate path this rule set does not separately model, since it depends on someone else's suit.
Like Utah's § 38-1a-701(3)(a)(i), recording a notice of pendency of action is a real, separate requirement alongside filing suit itself, not optional paperwork.
Weekend and holiday rollover
NoticeGuard does not model a weekend or holiday extension for Arizona. The dates above are the plain count from the date you enter. Check whether a Saturday, Sunday or holiday changes your date.
What this rule set does not cover
Weekend/holiday rollover is NOT modeled - deliberately, not by oversight. A.R.S. § 1-243 ("the time in which an act is required to be done... unless the last day is a holiday, and then it is also excluded") is a general Title 1 computation-of-time statute; whether it actually governs Title 33 lien deadlines specifically was not confirmed by reading Title 33 itself. Its own holiday list (§ 1-301) is also a real trap if assumed to work like Utah/Florida's: "Sunday of each week" is a listed holiday, but Saturday is not listed at all - a deadline landing on a Saturday would not be extended under this statute's own terms, unlike a deadline landing on a Sunday. Rather than guess at either the statute's applicability or implement an asymmetric Sunday-only rule without confirming it, every Arizona date is shown raw and un-extended, the same honest gap Idaho's rollover has.
The 6-month enforcement period in § 33-998(A) is approximated as 180 calendar days, not a literal calendar-month count - the same approximation already made for Idaho's 6-month period and Florida's 1-year period elsewhere in this app.
Payment-bonded projects have a separate notice-and-claim scheme referenced inside § 33-992.01 itself (subsections (J)/(K), re: bond information) and in § 33-1003 - not modeled here.
Multi-building residential projects each have their own completion date under § 33-993(B) ("each building is a separate work" for lien-period purposes) - this rule set assumes a single completion date for the whole project, not modeled per-building.
Only §§ 1-243, 1-301, 33-992.01, 33-993, and 33-998 have been read. The rest of Title 33, Chapter 7 - including the payment-bond article (33-1001 through 33-1008) and the separate residential-contractor recovery fund provisions - has not been incorporated.
This app generates documents for the preliminary twenty day notice and the notice and claim of lien - not for the action to foreclose the lien, which is a civil complaint governed by court rules and local practice, not a statutory form.
NoticeGuard is an app that turns a job's dates into a countdown for each statutory step, shows the statute text each date was read from, exports a calendar file (.ics) and sends reminders 14, 7 and 1 day before each deadline. It tracks and reminds; it does not file anything for you.