2 deadlines NoticeGuard models for Maine: 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 Every deadline in this app comes from a statute read on the date shown next to its citation - that snapshot can go out of date.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.
Record statement of claim (no contract with owner)
Filed with the register of deeds, with a copy mailed to the owner, counted from this claimant's own last day of labor, furnishing materials, or performing services - required only of a claimant without a direct contract with the owner.
What it counts from. 90 days after last furnishing (last day on site).
Applies to. Subcontractor, Supplier, Preconstruction service.
10 M.R.S. § 3253 (1) Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-21
“The lien under section 3252 is dissolved unless the claimant, within 90 days after ceasing to labor, furnish materials or perform services: A. Files in the office of the register of deeds in the county or registry district in which the building, wharf or pier is situated a true statement of the amount due the claimant, with all just credits given, together with a description of the property intended to be covered by the lien sufficiently accurate to identify it and the names of the owners, if known. The statement must be subscribed and sworn to by the person claiming the lien, or by someone in the claimant's behalf, and recorded in a book kept for that purpose by the register of deeds for the county or registry district, who is entitled to the same fees as for recording mortgages; and B. Provides a copy of the statement under paragraph A to the owner or owners by ordinary mail.”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). The statute's own mechanism: the lien "is dissolved unless" both the recording and the mailed copy happen within the ninety days.
Also stated next to this deadline.
This section does not apply at all when the claimant furnished labor, materials, or services under a contract with the owner (§ 3253(2)) - the original contractor has no recording deadline; only the enforcement-action deadline below applies to that role.
A post office certificate of mailing the statement to the owner is conclusive proof of the owner's receipt.
File action to preserve and enforce the lien
Filed with the Superior Court or District Court, counted from this claimant's own last day of labor, furnishing materials, or performing services - required of every claimant, including the original contractor.
What it counts from. 120 days after last furnishing (last day on site).
Applies to. Original contractor, Subcontractor, Supplier, Preconstruction service.
10 M.R.S. § 3255 (1) Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-21
“The liens mentioned in sections 3251 to 3254 may be preserved and enforced by action against the debtor and owner of the property affected and all other parties interested therein, filed with the Superior Court or District Court clerk in the county or division where the house, building or appurtenances, wharf, pier or building thereon on which a lien is claimed is situated within 120 days after the last of the labor or services are performed or labor, materials or services are so furnished, except as provided in section 3256.”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). The statute states this action is what "preserve[s] and enforce[s]" the lien - filing after this period no longer accomplishes either.
Also stated next to this deadline.
If the claimant did not contract directly with the owner, the summons and complaint cannot be served on the owner until 30 days after filing the complaint - a real service-timing rule that follows the filing deadline shown here, not a separate due date this app computes.
This deadline applies to every claimant regardless of privity - an original contractor with no § 3253 recording obligation still has this same 120-day filing deadline.
Weekend and holiday rollover
NoticeGuard does not model a weekend or holiday extension for Maine. 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 bona fide purchaser notice mechanism (§ 3255(2): an optional recorded notice, effective for only 120 days at a time, needed to bind a later good-faith buyer even before an enforcement action is filed) is not modeled - a data-dependent, claimant-elected filing this app does not otherwise track.
The owner's payment-cap defense for non-privity claimants (§ 3255(3): the lien reaches only the balance still owed to the party the owner directly contracted with, unless a specific warning-worded notice was given first) is not modeled - it limits the amount recoverable, not the deadline itself.
The 30-day service delay for a non-privity claimant's enforcement action (§ 3255(1), second sentence: the complaint may be filed within the 120 days, but the summons and complaint cannot be served on the owner until 30 days after filing) is not modeled as a separate deadline - it is a service-timing rule layered on top of the filing deadline already shown.
Weekend/holiday rollover is NOT modeled - no general Maine computation-of-time statute was researched this pass.
Only §§ 3251, 3253, and 3255 have been read. The rest of this subchapter - including § 3256's cross-reference exception and § 3261's notice-of-action requirement - 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.