3 deadlines NoticeGuard models for Arkansas: 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 Every deadline in this app comes from a statute read on the date shown next to its citation - that snapshot can go out of date.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 2026-09-21 (each citation below carries its own date). Rule data from the NoticeGuard app, source commit 22f9300.
Written notice to the owner (or the owner's authorized or registered agent) and the contractor, counted from this claimant's own furnishing of labor or materials - required of every claimant except the original contractor, on commercial real estate.
What it counts from. 75 days after last furnishing (last day on site).
Applies to. Subcontractor, Supplier, Preconstruction service.
Arkansas Code Annotated § 18-44-115 (b)(4)-(5) Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-21
“No subcontractor, service provider, material supplier, or laborer shall be entitled to a lien upon commercial real estate unless the subcontractor, service provider, material supplier, or laborer notifies the owner of the commercial real estate being constructed or improved, the owner's authorized agent, or the owner's registered agent in writing that the subcontractor, service provider, material supplier, or laborer is currently entitled to payment but has not been paid. The notice shall be sent to the owner, the owner's authorized agent, or the owner's registered agent and to the contractor before seventy-five (75) days have elapsed from the time that the labor was supplied or the materials furnished.”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). The statute's own mechanism: the claimant "shall [not] be entitled to a lien upon commercial real estate" without this notice.
Also stated next to this deadline.
Required content (§ 18-44-115(b)(6)): a general description of the labor/services/materials and the amount due and unpaid; the name and address of the person furnishing them; the name of the person who contracted for them; and a description of the job site.
A mandatory boldface, all-capital-letters "NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER" paragraph must also appear in the notice, quoted in full in this app's generated document for this rule.
"Commercial real estate" (§ 18-44-115(b)(2)(A)) means nonresidential real estate, or residential real estate with 5 or more units - this app always treats the project as commercial for this rule; it does not separately ask about unit count.
File lien statement
Filed with the clerk of the circuit court, counted from this claimant's own last day the labor/materials were furnished or the work performed.
What it counts from. 120 days after last furnishing (last day on site).
Applies to. Original contractor, Subcontractor, Supplier, Preconstruction service.
Arkansas Code Annotated § 18-44-117 (a)(1) Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-21
“A person who wishes to avail himself or herself of the provisions of this subchapter has a duty to file with the clerk of the circuit court of the county in which the building, erection, or other improvement to be charged with the lien is situated and within one hundred twenty (120) days after the things specified in this subchapter have been furnished or the work or labor done or performed: (A) A just and true account of the demand due or owing to him or her after allowing all credits; and (B) An affidavit of notice attached to the lien account.”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). § 18-44-118(f)(2)(A) & (f)(5): in a lien-contest action, if the lien was not filed "in the form required by § 18-44-117," the circuit court shall enter an order discharging the lien.
Also stated next to this deadline.
The clerk shall not file a lien account that lacks the affidavits and attachments this section requires (§ 18-44-117(b)(3)) - including an affidavit of notice attesting compliance with §§ 18-44-114 and 18-44-115, with copies of each notice given and its proof of service attached.
A street address alone is not a correct property description under this section (§ 18-44-117(a)(2)(B)) - a fuller legal description is required.
Commence action to enforce the lien
Counted from the day the lien was filed. If no action is instituted and a lis pendens filed within this period, the lien stops existing.
What it counts from. 450 days after notice of construction lien recorded.
Applies to. Original contractor, Subcontractor, Supplier, Preconstruction service.
Arkansas Code Annotated § 18-44-119 (a)-(b) Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-21
“All actions under this subchapter shall be commenced within fifteen (15) months after filing the lien and prosecuted without unnecessary delay to final judgment. No lien shall continue to exist by virtue of the provisions of this subchapter for more than fifteen (15) months after the lien is filed, unless within that time: (1) An action shall be instituted as described in this subchapter; and (2) A lis pendens is filed under § 16-59-101 et seq.”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). The statute's own mechanism: "No lien shall continue to exist... for more than fifteen (15) months after the lien is filed" absent a timely-instituted action and a filed lis pendens.
Also stated next to this deadline.
Approximated as 450 calendar days (15 months × 30), the same approximation style used throughout this app.
Filing a lis pendens is a real, separate requirement alongside instituting the action itself, not optional paperwork - the same pattern as several other states' enforcement deadlines in this app.
Weekend and holiday rollover
NoticeGuard does not model a weekend or holiday extension for Arkansas. 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
The universal 10-day pre-filing notice (§ 18-44-114) is NOT modeled - it runs backward from whenever the claimant chooses to file the lien statement ("ten (10) days' notice before the filing of the lien"), not forward from a fixed anchor. This app requires giving that notice at least 10 days before filing the document generated for the rule below; it does not compute a separate due date for it.
The residential (four-or-fewer-unit) branch of the preliminary notice, § 18-44-115(a) - a different trigger (before commencement of work, not day-counted from furnishing) with its own mandatory verbatim form and misdemeanor penalty - is not modeled. This app always applies the commercial 75-day rule below.
Whether § 18-44-115(b)'s 75-day notice period runs from each individual act of furnishing (a rolling deadline) or from this claimant's own last furnishing (a single project-level event) is unconfirmed by any case law found. This app applies it to `lastFurnishing`, the same treatment every other state's "within N days of furnishing" notice gets here - but flags that Arkansas's own text ("the time that the labor was supplied or the materials furnished," no "last" qualifier) reads more ambiguously than most.
Weekend/holiday rollover is NOT modeled. Arkansas's own Rule of Civil Procedure 6(a) is a court rule, not a statute, and no source found confirms it governs these non-judicial, clerk-filed deadlines specifically. A drafting signal cuts the other way: § 18-44-118(f)(3) explicitly writes its own 5-day objection period as excluding "Sundays and legal holidays" - the legislature knows how to write that exclusion when it wants one, and did not do so for §§ 18-44-114, 115, 117, or 119.
Sourced from FindLaw's current mirror, cross-checked against Lexis-hosted official search snippets where they overlapped - not independently re-verified word-for-word against the state's own CAPTCHA-gated repository beyond that overlap. Named plainly rather than presented as an unqualified primary-source read.
Bonded, government/public-project, and retainage variants are not modeled. Only §§ 18-44-114, 18-44-115, 18-44-117, 18-44-118, and 18-44-119 have been read.
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.