4 deadlines NoticeGuard models for Ohio: 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 Every deadline in this app comes from a statute read on the date shown next to its citation - that snapshot can go out of date.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.
Original contractor, Subcontractor, Supplier, Preconstruction service only when you tick "This property is a one- or two-family dwelling, or a residential condominium unit"
Original contractor, Subcontractor, Supplier, Preconstruction service only when you do not tick "This property is a one- or two-family dwelling, or a residential condominium unit"
Served on the owner (and, if not in direct privity, the original contractor), counted from the day this claimant first performed labor or furnished material.
What it counts from. 21 days after first furnishing (commenced work).
Applies to. Subcontractor, Supplier, Preconstruction service.
Ohio Revised Code § 1311.05 (A) Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-21
“a subcontractor or material supplier who performs labor or work upon or furnishes material in furtherance of an improvement to real property and who wishes to preserve the subcontractor's or material supplier's lien rights shall serve a notice of furnishing ... within twenty-one days after performing the first labor or work or furnishing the first materials. No original contractor has to serve a notice of furnishing to preserve lien rights arising from a contract with an owner, part owner, or lessee.”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). A subcontractor or material supplier who wishes to preserve lien rights "shall" serve this notice within the period - timely service preserves lien rights back to first furnishing; late service protects only work from the 21 days before service forward.
Also stated next to this deadline.
The original contractor never owes this notice (§ 1311.05(A)) - modeled here by excluding that role entirely.
Exempt from serving it on a specific party you are already in direct privity with: a material supplier in direct privity with the owner need not notify the owner; a subcontractor or supplier in direct privity with the original contractor need not notify the original contractor. Not modeled - this app shows the deadline for every non-exempt role regardless of who they contracted with directly.
File the affidavit for mechanics' lien (one-/two-family dwelling or condominium unit)
Filed with the county recorder, counted from this claimant's own last labor, work, or material furnished - the shorter period that applies to a one- or two-family dwelling or a residential condominium unit.
What it counts from. 60 days after last furnishing (last day on site).
Applies to. Original contractor, Subcontractor, Supplier, Preconstruction service (when you tick "This property is a one- or two-family dwelling, or a residential condominium unit").
Ohio Revised Code § 1311.06 (B)(1) Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-21
“If the lien arises in connection with a one- or two-family dwelling or in connection with a residential unit of condominium ... within sixty days from the date on which the last labor or work was performed or material was furnished by the person claiming the lien.”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). Any person who "wishes to avail [themselves]" of the Chapter 1311 lien remedy "shall make and file for record" the affidavit within this period (§ 1311.06(A)) - filing outside it does not perfect the lien.
Also stated next to this deadline.
Applies identically to every role in this app - the property-type fork, not contractor tier, controls this deadline.
The affidavit has both required content (§ 1311.06(A)) and an actual prescribed statutory form (§ 1311.06(C), "AFFIDAVIT FOR MECHANICS' LIEN") - see this state's limitations for why the form is not yet templated.
File the affidavit for mechanics' lien (other property)
Filed with the county recorder, counted from this claimant's own last labor, work, or material furnished - the general period for property that is not a one-/two-family dwelling or condominium unit.
What it counts from. 75 days after last furnishing (last day on site).
Applies to. Original contractor, Subcontractor, Supplier, Preconstruction service (when you do not tick "This property is a one- or two-family dwelling, or a residential condominium unit").
Ohio Revised Code § 1311.06 (B)(3) Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-21
“If the lien is one not described in division (B)(1) or (2) of this section, within seventy-five days from the date on which the last of the labor or work was performed or material was furnished by the person claiming the lien.”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). Any person who "wishes to avail [themselves]" of the Chapter 1311 lien remedy "shall make and file for record" the affidavit within this period (§ 1311.06(A)) - filing outside it does not perfect the lien.
Also stated next to this deadline.
Applies identically to every role in this app - the property-type fork, not contractor tier, controls this deadline.
A third fork - oil and gas wells under § 1311.021 - gets 120 days instead (§ 1311.06(B)(2)); not modeled, see `limitations`.
Outer limit to commence an action to enforce the lien
The passive outer bound on the lien's force, counted from the date the affidavit was filed - an owner can force a much earlier deadline by voluntarily serving a notice to commence suit, a real but unmodeled acceleration; see this rule's notes.
What it counts from. 2190 days after notice of construction lien recorded.
Applies to. Original contractor, Subcontractor, Supplier, Preconstruction service.
Ohio Revised Code § 1311.13 (C) Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-21
“Liens under sections 1311.01 to 1311.22 of the Revised Code continue in force for six years after an affidavit is filed in the office of the county recorder under section 1311.06 of the Revised Code. If an action is brought to enforce the lien within that time, the lien continues in force until final adjudication thereof.”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). The statute states the lien "continue[s] in force for six years" from filing - past this date, without a timely-commenced action, the lien no longer has force.
Also stated next to this deadline.
Approximated as 2,190 calendar days (6 years × 365), the same approximation style used throughout this app.
The real deadline can be far shorter: § 1311.11 lets the owner (or another interested party) voluntarily serve a "notice to commence suit," which - once completed - gives the lienholder only 60 days to sue or the lien becomes void. This app does not model that accelerated path since it depends on an action someone else may or may not take; see `limitations`.
Weekend and holiday rollover
NoticeGuard does not model a weekend or holiday extension for Ohio. 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 (§ 1311.05) is conditioned on a notice of commencement having been recorded for the project (§ 1311.04) - if none was recorded, this app still shows the 21-day deadline, which may not actually apply. Home construction contracts (as defined in § 1311.011) are fully exempt from this section - not detected or modeled; a user on such a contract should disregard this deadline.
A third property-type branch - oil and gas wells under § 1311.021 - gets 120 days to file the affidavit (§ 1311.06(B)(2)) instead of the 60/75-day fork modeled here. Not modeled; no role or flag in this app distinguishes an oil/gas well project.
The accelerated 60-day enforcement deadline (§ 1311.11, "notice to commence suit") is NOT modeled - it only exists once the owner or another interested party voluntarily serves that notice on the lienholder, an action this app has no job-fact field for (the same category of gap as Georgia's and Colorado's own skipped, action-triggered deadlines). This app shows only the passive 6-year outer limit (§ 1311.13(C)), which applies regardless of whether that notice is ever served - the real deadline can be much shorter if it is.
Weekend/holiday rollover is NOT modeled - deliberately, not by oversight. R.C. § 1.14 is Ohio's general time-computation statute and its own text plainly covers "the time within which an act is required by law to be done," but no case or AG opinion confirming its application to Chapter 1311 deadlines specifically was found. The same honest gap as every other state in this app whose general computation statute is unconfirmed for its own lien chapter.
The 6-year enforcement outer limit is approximated as 2,190 calendar days (6 × 365), the same style of approximation this app already makes for other states' year-denominated periods.
Only §§ 1311.05, 1311.06, 1311.11, 1311.13, and 1.14 have been read. The rest of Chapter 1311 - including § 1311.04's notice of commencement mechanics and priority rules elsewhere in the chapter - is not incorporated.
This app generates the affidavit for mechanics' lien from § 1311.06(A) (required content) and § 1311.06(C) (a PERMISSIVE - "may be," not "shall be" - safe-harbor form template). The published form's three trailing blank lines near the end (after "Sworn to before me...") have no field labels in the codified text as scraped - this app fills them with the plainest reading (affiant signature, notary signature, notary title) but that grouping was not confirmed against the recorder's authenticated PDF; verify locally before relying on the label wording.
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.