3 deadlines NoticeGuard models for North Dakota: 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 Every deadline in this app comes from a statute read on the date shown next to its citation - that snapshot can go out of date.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.
Recorded with the recorder of the county where the property is located, counted from this claimant's own last contribution - missing this date does not defeat the lien outright, but does cost priority against good-faith purchasers/encumbrancers and amounts already paid to the contractor.
What it counts from. 90 days after last furnishing (last day on site).
Applies to. Original contractor, Subcontractor, Supplier, Preconstruction service.
N.D.C.C. § 35-27-13 (sole operative sentence) Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-21
“Every person desiring to perfect the person's lien shall record with the recorder of the county in which the property to be charged with the lien is situated, within ninety days after all the person's contribution is done, and having complied with the provisions of this chapter, a lien describing the property and stating the amount due, the dates of the first and last contribution, and the person with which the claimant contracted.”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). § 35-27-14: "A failure to file within ninety days does not defeat the lien except as against purchasers or encumbrancers in good faith and for value whose rights accrue before the lien is filed, and as against the owner to the extent of the amount paid to a contractor before the recording of the lien."
Also stated next to this deadline.
Recording after this date is still possible and the lien is not automatically lost - but see the separate absolute 3-year outer cap below, which genuinely does bar filing entirely.
Absolute outer deadline to record a lien
The true hard cutoff: no lien may be recorded at all after this date, counted from this claimant's own first item of material furnished.
What it counts from. 1095 days after first furnishing (commenced work).
Applies to. Original contractor, Subcontractor, Supplier, Preconstruction service.
N.D.C.C. § 35-27-14 (sole operative sentence, second sentence) Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-21
“A lien may not be filed more than three years after the date of the first item of material is furnished.”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). The statute's own operative language: a lien "may not be filed" at all after this date - unlike the 90-day mark above, there is no partial-priority fallback past this point.
Also stated next to this deadline.
Approximated as 1,095 calendar days (3 years × 365), the same approximation style used throughout this app.
This absolute cap is measured from FIRST furnishing, not last - a genuinely different anchor from the 90-day recording deadline above.
Commence action and record lis pendens
Both the enforcement action and a lis pendens must be recorded, counted from the date the lien was recorded, or the lien is never valid, effective, or enforceable.
What it counts from. 1095 days after notice of construction lien recorded.
Applies to. Original contractor, Subcontractor, Supplier, Preconstruction service.
N.D.C.C. § 35-27-25 (sole operative sentence, fourth sentence) Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-21
“A lien is not valid, effective, nor enforceable, unless the lienor commences an action and records with the county recorder a lis pendens within three years after the date of recording of the lien. If a lis pendens is not recorded within the limitations provided by this section, the lien is deemed satisfied.”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). The statute's own mechanism: the lien "is not valid, effective, nor enforceable" without both acts within the three years - and "is deemed satisfied" if a lis pendens is not timely recorded.
Also stated next to this deadline.
Approximated as 1,095 calendar days (3 years × 365), the same approximation style used throughout this app.
Before enforcing, the lienholder must also give the owner written notice of intent to enforce - 10 days ahead by personal service, or 20 days ahead by registered mail (§ 35-27-24) - a real, separate lead-time requirement this app does not compute as its own deadline.
An owner's written demand, filed with the county recorder, can force suit and a lis pendens within 30 days instead, or the lien is forfeited (§ 35-27-25) - not modeled here (see this state's "Honest limits").
Weekend and holiday rollover
NoticeGuard does not model a weekend or holiday extension for North Dakota. 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
No preliminary notice exists - confirmed repealed, not merely unresearched. § 35-27-05 ("Notice of intention to claim lien") was repealed by S.L. 2009, ch. 293, § 16. Several secondary sources describe a 10-day pre-recording notice requirement that no longer exists in current law.
The 90-day recording deadline (§ 35-27-13) is shown as a priority-affecting deadline, not a forfeiture one - missing it does not defeat the lien outright (§ 35-27-14), it only costs priority against good-faith purchasers/encumbrancers whose rights accrue first, and against amounts the owner already paid the contractor before recording.
The 30-day forced-suit demand mechanism (§ 35-27-25: an owner's written demand, filed with the county recorder, forces suit and a lis pendens within 30 days or the lien is forfeited) is not modeled - a data-dependent alternate this app does not otherwise collect a demand-received date for. This app always shows the default 3-year enforcement deadline.
The owner's optional itemized-account demand (§ 35-27-09: within 15 days of contract completion, the owner may demand a verified account, after which no enforcement action may be commenced for 10 days) is not modeled - owner-initiated and data-dependent.
Weekend/holiday rollover is NOT modeled - no general North Dakota computation-of-time statute was researched this pass.
The whole chapter (§§ 35-27-01 through 35-27-28) was read for this pass; priority-among-lienholders mechanics (§ 35-27-22) and the wind-turbine/railway variants (§§ 35-27-13, 35-27-18) were reviewed but not modeled as separate rules.
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.