4 deadlines NoticeGuard models for Michigan: 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 Every deadline in this app comes from a statute read on the date shown next to its citation - that snapshot can go out of date.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.
Served on the designee (and the general contractor, if any) named in the notice of commencement, counted from the day this claimant first furnished labor or material.
What it counts from. 20 days after first furnishing (commenced work).
Applies to. Subcontractor, Supplier, Preconstruction service.
MCL § 570.1109 (1) Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-21
“Except as otherwise provided in sections 108 and 108a, a subcontractor or supplier that contracts to provide an improvement to real property shall provide a notice of furnishing to the designee and the general contractor, if any, as named in the notice of commencement at the address shown in the notice of commencement, either personally or by certified mail, within 20 days after furnishing the first labor or material... A contractor is not required to provide a notice of furnishing to preserve lien rights arising from his or her contract directly with an owner or lessee.”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). A late or missing notice does not automatically void the lien, but forfeits lien rights for work furnished before the (late) notice to the extent the owner already paid the contractor in reliance on a sworn statement or waiver (§ 109(6)) - see this rule's notes and `limitations` for why this makes the deadline more consequential than it first appears.
Also stated next to this deadline.
The general contractor with a direct contract with the owner or lessee never owes this notice - confirmed by the statute's own last sentence in § 109(1); modeled here by excluding that role entirely.
This deadline's real stakes run through § 110's sworn-statement shield: an owner who pays the contractor relying on a sworn statement is protected from a subcontractor's or supplier's lien claim UNLESS that claimant already served this notice - see `limitations`.
Can be extended by an owner/designee's own default on their notice-of-commencement duty - not modeled; see `limitations`.
Record the claim of lien
Recorded with the register of deeds, counted from this claimant's own last furnishing of labor or material under their own contract.
What it counts from. 90 days after last furnishing (last day on site).
Applies to. Original contractor, Subcontractor, Supplier, Preconstruction service.
MCL § 570.1111 (1) Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-21
“Notwithstanding section 109, the right of a contractor, subcontractor, laborer, or supplier to a construction lien created by this act shall cease to exist unless, within 90 days after the lien claimant's last furnishing of labor or material for the improvement, pursuant to the lien claimant's contract, a claim of lien is recorded in the office of the register of deeds for each county where the real property to which the improvement was made is located.”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). The statute states plainly: the right to a construction lien "shall cease to exist" if the claim of lien is not recorded within this period - a right-extinguishing deadline, not merely a procedural bar.
Also stated next to this deadline.
Applies uniformly to contractor, subcontractor, and supplier - no role-based difference in this specific deadline, confirmed from the statute's own text (it names all claimant types together with one number).
A subcontractor or supplier must attach proof of service of the § 109 notice of furnishing to the claim of lien (§ 111(4)) - a document-completeness requirement this app does not verify.
The claim of lien has a prescribed "substantially the following form" template (§ 111(2)) - not yet generated by this app; see `limitations`.
Serve a copy of the recorded claim of lien
Served on the designee (personally or by certified mail), counted from the date the claim of lien was recorded.
What it counts from. 15 days after notice of construction lien recorded.
Applies to. Original contractor, Subcontractor, Supplier, Preconstruction service.
MCL § 570.1111 (5) Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-21
“Each contractor, subcontractor, supplier, laborer, or agent of a group of laborers authorized under subsection (6) recording a claim of lien, within 15 days after the date of the recording, shall serve on the designee personally or by certified mail, return receipt requested, at the address shown on the notice of commencement, a copy of the claim of lien and a copy of any proof of service recorded in connection with the claim of lien.”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). The statute uses "shall serve" as a mandatory instruction - a real, separate statutory step following recording, distinct from the 90-day recording deadline itself.
Also stated next to this deadline.
Applies to every claimant type identically.
Commence an action to enforce the construction lien
Counted from the date the claim of lien was recorded. A notice of lis pendens must be recorded at the same time suit is commenced.
What it counts from. 365 days after notice of construction lien recorded.
Applies to. Original contractor, Subcontractor, Supplier, Preconstruction service.
MCL § 570.1117 (1) Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-21
“Proceedings for the enforcement of a construction lien and the foreclosure of any interests subject to the construction lien shall not be brought later than 1 year after the date the claim of lien was recorded.”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). The statute states proceedings "shall not be brought later than" this date - a hard outer bound on enforcement.
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.
A notice of lis pendens must be recorded at the same time the enforcement action is commenced (§ 117(2)) - a paired filing requirement, not a separate deadline.
A contractor or subcontractor who owed a sworn statement but never provided one cannot file suit to enforce the lien until they do (§ 110(9)-(10)) - a blocking precondition on this deadline, not modeled; see `limitations`.
Applies uniformly across claimant roles.
Weekend and holiday rollover
NoticeGuard does not model a weekend or holiday extension for Michigan. 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 notice-of-furnishing deadline can be EXTENDED by an owner/designee's own default: if a notice of commencement was never recorded (non-residential, § 108) or never furnished on request (residential, § 108a), the § 109 clock does not start until 20 days after that notice is eventually recorded or furnished. Not modeled - this app always computes 20 days from first furnishing, which could understate how much time is actually available if the owner defaulted on their own notice-of-commencement duty.
The sworn-statement mechanism (§ 110) - under which an owner who pays the contractor in reliance on a sworn statement is shielded from a subcontractor's or supplier's later lien claim UNLESS that claimant already served a § 109 notice of furnishing - is not modeled as its own deadline, but it is the real reason the notice-of-furnishing deadline matters beyond a formality: missing it can cost a subcontractor or supplier their lien on already-paid amounts even if the 90-day recording deadline is still met. Stated here because it changes how seriously to take the notice-of-furnishing rule below, not because this app computes the sworn-statement deadline itself (which is event-triggered - due on payment/demand - not a fixed day count).
A contractor or subcontractor who has not provided a sworn statement when one was owed cannot file suit to enforce the lien until they do (§ 110(9)-(10)) - a blocking precondition on the 1-year enforcement deadline, not an extension of it. Not modeled; this app does not track sworn-statement status.
Laborer-specific rules (§ 109(2), (3), (7), (8) - a stricter regime where a missed notice of furnishing defeats the laborer's lien outright, no payment-reliance qualifier) are not modeled - no role in this app is a pure wage laborer.
§ 113's mutual 10-day written-demand-response deadlines (owner/lessee to lien claimant, and lien claimant to owner/lessee/designee/contractor) are not modeled - each is triggered by another party's demand, an action this app has no job-fact field for, and carries a damages consequence rather than affecting lien validity.
Weekend/holiday rollover is NOT modeled - deliberately, not by oversight. MCL 8.6 applies generally to "the statutes and administrative rules," and nothing in the Construction Lien Act sections read contradicts it, but no Michigan case confirming its application to this Act specifically was found. The same honest gap as most other states in this app.
Only §§ 108, 108a, 109, 110, 111, 113, and 117 have been read (108, 108a, and 113 only for the cross-references described above). The rest of the Act - including bond-substitution and priority-dispute mechanics - is not incorporated.
This app generates the claim of lien from MCL § 570.1111(2)'s own form ("substantially the following form" - a safe harbor, not mandatory exact wording). The statute's own published text spells the field caption "comencement" (missing an "m") - reproduced as-is with a [sic] note, rather than silently corrected, since this app cannot confirm from the legislature's website alone whether that is the official codified spelling or a rendering artifact.
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.