3 deadlines NoticeGuard models for Louisiana: 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 Every deadline in this app comes from a statute read on the date shown next to its citation - that snapshot can go out of date.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.
File statement of claim or privilege (no notice of termination filed)
Filed with the recorder of mortgages of the parish where the property is located, counted from the substantial completion or abandonment of the work - used when no notice of termination has been filed for this project.
What it counts from. 60 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).
Louisiana Revised Statutes § 9:4822 (A) Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-21
“Except as otherwise provided in Subsections B, C, and D of this Section, a person granted a privilege under R.S. 9:4801 or a claim and privilege under R.S. 9:4802 shall file a statement of his claim or privilege no later than sixty days after: (1) The filing of a notice of termination of the work. (2) The substantial completion or abandonment of the work, if a notice of termination is not filed.”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). R.S. 9:4823(A)(1): the claim or privilege "is extinguished" if not preserved as required by this section.
Also stated next to this deadline.
This is the default track only - assumes no notice of contract (§ 9:4811) was filed at the start of the project. See this state's "Honest limits" for the different day counts that apply if one was.
R.S. 9:4822(H): the statement must be in writing, signed, reasonably identify the immovable, set forth the amount and nature of the obligation with reasonable itemization, and identify the liable owner. Unpaid invoices need not be attached unless the statement itself says they are.
File statement of claim or privilege (notice of termination filed)
Filed with the recorder of mortgages of the parish where the property is located, counted from the filing of a notice of termination of the work - the same 60-day count as the other branch, just a different starting event.
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).
Louisiana Revised Statutes § 9:4822 (A) Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-21
“Except as otherwise provided in Subsections B, C, and D of this Section, a person granted a privilege under R.S. 9:4801 or a claim and privilege under R.S. 9:4802 shall file a statement of his claim or privilege no later than sixty days after: (1) The filing of a notice of termination of the work. (2) The substantial completion or abandonment of the work, if a notice of termination is not filed.”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). R.S. 9:4823(A)(1): the claim or privilege "is extinguished" if not preserved as required by this section.
Also stated next to this deadline.
A "notice of termination" (§ 9:4822(E)) is an owner-signed filing certifying substantial completion, abandonment, contractor default, or contract termination - modeled here as Louisiana's use of this app's `noticeOfCompletionFiled` anchor.
This is the default track only - assumes no notice of contract (§ 9:4811) was filed at the start of the project. See this state's "Honest limits" for the different day counts that apply if one was.
Institute action to enforce the claim or privilege
Counted from the day the statement of claim or privilege was filed.
What it counts from. 365 days after notice of construction lien recorded.
Applies to. Original contractor, Subcontractor, Supplier, Preconstruction service.
Louisiana Revised Statutes § 9:4823 (A)(2) Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-21
“A privilege provided by R.S. 9:4801, a claim against the owner and the privilege securing it provided by R.S. 9:4802, or a claim against the contractor provided by R.S. 9:4802 is extinguished if any of the following occurs: ... (2) The claimant or holder of the privilege does not institute an action against the owner for the enforcement of the claim or privilege within one year after filing the statement of claim or privilege to preserve it.”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). The statute's own mechanism: the claim or privilege "is extinguished."
Also stated next to this deadline.
Approximated as 365 calendar days (1 year × 365), the same approximation style used throughout this app. A calendar year is 365 or 366 days, so this date always lands on or before the statutory one - never after it.
§ 9:4823(B): a claim against the general contractor specifically (as opposed to the owner) is not extinguished merely for not filing a statement, if it was instead delivered to the contractor within the filing period - and suit against the contractor or its surety can follow a separate one-year clock from the expiration of the filing period. A real alternate path this app does not separately model.
§ 9:4833(E) separately requires filing a notice of pendency of action within the same one year or the recorded lien loses effect against third persons - not modeled as an independent deadline here (see this state's "Honest limits").
Weekend and holiday rollover
NoticeGuard does not model a weekend or holiday extension for Louisiana. 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 entire "notice of contract" track (§§ 9:4811, 9:4822(B)-(C)) is NOT modeled - a real, named gap, not an oversight. If a notice of contract was properly and timely filed for this project, subcontractors/suppliers/lessors/consultants instead get 30 days after a filed notice of termination (or 6 months after substantial completion/abandonment if none is filed), and the general contractor gets 60 days / 7 months respectively - all different from the default numbers below. A general contractor on a contract over $100,000 has NO privilege at all without a timely-filed notice of contract (§ 9:4811(D)). This app has no anchor for "notice of contract filed" (a genuinely different, earlier-filed document from the "notice of termination" this app already models as `noticeOfCompletionFiled`) - until one exists, this app assumes the default track applies and says so plainly rather than silently using the wrong day count.
Category-specific preliminary notices (§ 9:4804) are NOT modeled: a 30-day engagement notice for professional consultants, a 30-day/first-placement notice for lessors of movables (capping, not forfeiting, the claim if late), a 75-day notice of nonpayment for sellers of movables sold to a subcontractor (forfeiting fully if missed, but only when a notice of contract was filed), and a 30-day pre-suit notice for sub-subcontractors without a direct contract with the general contractor. None of these map onto the four roles or single-project-date model this app uses without either a new role/fact this app does not collect or conflating genuinely different statutory triggers - named here rather than force-fit.
The residential extension in § 9:4822(D) (a further 10 days, to 70 total, if a 10-day advance notice of nonpayment is given on "residential work") is not modeled - "residential work" is not defined inside the Private Works Act itself, and this app could not confirm it borrows the separate Residential Truth in Construction Act's definition (R.S. 9:4851) without an explicit cross-reference.
The Private Works Act's general time-computation reliance on La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 5059 is not confirmed for this non-judicial, recorder-of-mortgages filing scheme specifically - Article 5059 governs "a period of time allowed or prescribed by law" generally and reads broadly enough to reach these deadlines, but no case or Private Works Act cross-reference confirming that reading for THIS scheme was found. Weekend/holiday rollover is therefore NOT modeled - the same honest gap every other state in this app carries when its general computation statute is unconfirmed for the lien chapter specifically.
A separate, related one-year deadline is not modeled: § 9:4833(E) requires filing a notice of pendency of action (matching the enforcement suit) within one year of the statement of claim or privilege's own filing date, or the recorded lien loses its effect against third persons - distinct from, but numerically identical to, the § 9:4823(A)(2) enforcement deadline below.
Bonded projects (§§ 9:4812, 9:4835, a surety bond substituting for the lien) and public/government projects (excluded from this Act entirely by § 9:4808(D)(3)) are not modeled.
Only §§ 9:4801, 9:4802, 9:4804, 9:4811, 9:4822, 9:4823, 9:4831, and 9:4833 have been read. The rest of Chapter 5 has not been incorporated.
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.