2 deadlines NoticeGuard models for Georgia: 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 Every deadline in this app comes from a statute read on the date shown next to its citation - that snapshot can go out of date.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.
Filed with the clerk of superior court in the county where the property is located, counted from completion of the work or the claimant's own last furnishing of materials.
What it counts from. 90 days after last furnishing (last day on site).
Applies to. Original contractor, Subcontractor, Supplier, Preconstruction service.
O.C.G.A. § 44-14-361.1 (a)(2) Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-21
“The filing for record of his or her claim of lien within 90 days after the completion of the work, the furnishing of the architectural services, or the furnishing or performing of such surveying, engineering services, or interior design services or within 90 days after the material or machinery is furnished in the office of the clerk of the superior court of the county where the property is located. The lien shall include a statement regarding its expiration pursuant to Code Section 44-14-367 and a notice to the owner of the property on which a claim of lien is filed that such owner has the right to contest the lien; the absence of such statement or notice shall invalidate the lien.”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). The claim of lien must be filed within this period "to make good" the lien under § 44-14-361.1(a) - Georgia courts (United States Filter Distrib. Group v. Barnett, affirmed by the Georgia Supreme Court) treat this as a strict, non-extendable cutoff, confirmed not extended by the state's general weekend/holiday rollover statute.
Also stated next to this deadline.
Applies identically to every role in this app - no role-based difference in this specific deadline.
The claim of lien must also include a statutorily required expiration statement (§ 44-14-367) and a notice of the owner's right to contest - omitting either invalidates the lien even if timely filed. Not itself a separate deadline, but a real trap this app does not generate text for yet.
Within 2 business days of filing, a copy must be sent to the owner (or, if unfindable, to the contractor as the owner's statutory agent), and - if a notice of commencement was filed - to the contractor as well. Not separately modeled as its own deadline.
Commence a lien action to recover the claim
A lawsuit to recover the amount claimed, counted from the date the claim of lien was filed for record. A separate notice of that lien action must then be filed within 30 days of commencing it - not itself computed here; see this state's limitations.
What it counts from. 365 days after notice of construction lien recorded.
Applies to. Original contractor, Subcontractor, Supplier, Preconstruction service.
O.C.G.A. § 44-14-361.1 (a)(3) Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-21
“The commencement of a lien action for the recovery of the amount of the party's claim within 365 days from the date of filing for record of his or her claim of lien.”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). Georgia case law (Action Concrete v. Portrait Homes; Metromont Materials Corp. v. Cargill) treats this deadline as strict - a lienor who misses it cannot revive the lien claim by filing again.
Also stated next to this deadline.
This is the FIRST of two distinct deadlines in § 44-14-361.1(a)(3) - the statute separately requires filing a "notice" of the lien action with the clerk within 30 days AFTER commencing this action. That second clock is not computed by this app because its anchor is the lienor's own choice of filing date, not a job fact this app collects. Do not treat commencing the action alone as sufficient - read § 44-14-361.1(a)(3) for the second step.
Applies identically to every role in this app - no role-based difference in this deadline.
Weekend and holiday rollover
NoticeGuard does not model a weekend or holiday extension for Georgia. 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
Sourcing gap, stated plainly: the day-count text in `statuteText` below was read from Justia's Georgia Code mirror, not directly from the official advance.lexis.com portal, because that portal's full-document view is CAPTCHA-gated. Every section's OPENING CLAUSE was independently cross-checked word-for-word against the official portal's own search-result snippets and matched exactly - see the doc comment above for exactly what was and was not independently confirmed.
The Notice to Contractor (§ 44-14-361.5) - owed by a claimant without privity of contract with the contractor (typically subs and suppliers), due 30 days after the LATER of the notice of commencement being filed or the claimant's own first delivery of labor/materials, and only if a notice of commencement was ever filed at all - is NOT modeled. This app's `Computation.capBy` can only pull a due date EARLIER (the minimum of two forward counts, as Utah's notice-of-completion cap does); Georgia's "30 days after the LATER of two dates" needs the opposite operation, which the current engine cannot express without a new `Computation` shape. A genuine extension point, not an oversight.
The notice of lien action (§ 44-14-361.1(a)(3), second sentence) - due 30 days after the lienor commences the lien-enforcement suit - is NOT modeled. Its anchor is the lienor's own choice of when to file suit, a fact this app has no job-date field for (the same category of gap as Colorado's backward-counted notice of intent, if Colorado is ever added). Both this and the enforcement-action deadline below are jurisdictional under Georgia case law (missing either "extinguishes" the lien) - a user relying on this app for the 365-day suit deadline still needs to separately track the 30-day notice-of-lien-action deadline once they actually file, by hand.
Weekend/holiday rollover is confirmed NOT to apply to the 90-day claim-of-lien deadline - not merely unconfirmed the way several other states' rollover questions are. United States Filter Distrib. Group, Inc. v. Barnett, 241 Ga. App. 759 (1999), aff'd 273 Ga. 254 (2000) (Georgia Supreme Court), held O.C.G.A. § 1-3-1(d)(3)'s general weekend/holiday extension does NOT extend § 44-14-361.1(a)(2)'s 90-day filing deadline. Whether it applies to the 365-day suit-commencement deadline was not found confirmed either way by a court; this app applies no rollover to either deadline, which is the same result either way for the 90-day rule (confirmed no rollover) and the conservative default for the 365-day rule (unconfirmed, so none applied).
The preliminary notice of lien (§ 44-14-361.3) is optional for every role under Georgia law - filing one is never a prerequisite to enforcing a lien (confirmed by § 44-14-361.3(d)) - so it is not modeled as a deadline at all, the same treatment this app gives to any statutory step the statute itself does not require.
Only §§ 44-14-361, 44-14-361.1, 44-14-361.2, 44-14-361.3, 44-14-361.5, 44-14-362, and 1-3-1(d)(3) have been read (the first six only at the level described in the sourcing note above). The rest of Part 3 - including § 44-14-361.1(a)(4)'s relief for an absconding/bankrupt contractor and § 44-14-367's lien-expiration statement requirement referenced inside the claim of lien itself - is not incorporated.
This app generates no document for Georgia yet. The claim of lien has a prescribed "in substance" wording (§ 44-14-361.1(a)(2)) that a future session could template the same way Florida's and Arizona's prescribed forms are - not built this pass.
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.