3 deadlines NoticeGuard models for Tennessee: 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 Every deadline in this app comes from a statute read on the date shown next to its citation - that snapshot can go out of date.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.
Counted from completion or abandonment of the improvement. The lien continues to exist through final decision of any suit properly brought within this period.
What it counts from. 365 days after final completion of the original contract.
Applies to. Original contractor.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 66-11-106 (sole sentence, "Duration of lien") Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-21
“A prime contractor's lien shall continue for one (1) year after the date the improvement is complete or is abandoned, and until the final decision of any suit properly brought within that time for its enforcement.”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). The statute states the lien "shall continue for one (1) year" and, if a suit is properly brought within that year, continues further "until the final decision" of that suit - a lien not enforced by suit within the year does not continue past it.
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.
This is the prime (original) contractor's own rule, confirmed as a complete, single-sentence section, not truncated by the sourcing limitation described in this state's doc comment.
"Abandoned" (per § 66-11-112, cross-referenced) means a 90-day cessation of work coupled with intent to stop permanently or indefinitely - a fact this app does not independently verify.
Notice of nonpayment (remote contractor)
Served on the owner and the prime contractor, counted from the last day of the month in which this claimant furnished labor, services, materials, or equipment and remains unpaid. Not owed on a one- to four-family residential improvement.
What it counts from. 90 days after last furnishing (last day on site).
Applies to. Subcontractor, Supplier, Preconstruction service (when you do not tick "This is a one-, two-, three-, or four-family residential improvement").
Tenn. Code Ann. § 66-11-145 (a) Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-21
“Every remote contractor with respect to an improvement, except one-family, two-family, three-family and four-family residential units, shall serve, within ninety (90) days of the last day of each month within which work or labor was provided or materials, services, equipment, or machinery furnished and for which the remote contractor intends to claim a lien under this chapter, a notice of nonpayment for the work, labor, materials, services, machinery, or equipment to the owner and prime contractor in contractual privity with the remote contractor if its account is, in fact, unpaid.”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). The statute requires this notice as a condition for a remote contractor "to claim a lien under this chapter" for the unpaid work - the exact penalty for a missed notice was not independently confirmed from the primary source past "a remote contractor who fails to provide the notice... shall have no..." (see `limitations`); do not assume any specific consequence beyond what the statute itself was confirmed to say.
Also stated next to this deadline.
This is a ROLLING, per-month obligation - the statute requires a separate notice within 90 days of the end of EVERY month in which the claimant worked and remains unpaid. This app shows only the deadline for the claimant's last such month; see `limitations`.
Explicitly does not apply to a one-, two-, three-, or four-family residential improvement - confirmed verbatim from the statute's own carve-out.
The prime contractor never owes this notice - confirmed by the statute's own "every remote contractor" framing, contrasted with § 66-11-102(a)'s lien right that both prime and remote contractors share automatically.
Record sworn statement / serve notice of lien
Recorded with the register of deeds (or, for a remote contractor, also served on the owner), counted from completion or abandonment of the improvement. For an original contractor this protects lien priority against later third-party purchasers only - it is NOT required as against the owner. For a subcontractor, supplier, or preconstruction service provider, the same act is a real precondition to having lien rights against the owner at all.
What it counts from. 90 days after final completion of the original contract.
Applies to. Original contractor, Subcontractor, Supplier, Preconstruction service.
Tenn. Code Ann. §§ 66-11-112 and 66-11-115 112(a); 115(a)(2) Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-21
“[§ 66-11-112(a)] In order to preserve the priority of the lien provided by this chapter as of the date of its attachment, as concerns subsequent purchasers or encumbrancers for a valuable consideration without notice of the lien, though not as concerns the owner, the lienor... is required to record in the office of the register of deeds of the county where the real property... lies, a sworn statement of the amount for, and a reasonably certain description of the real property on, which the lien [is claimed]... Recordation is required to be done no later than ninety (90) days after the date the improvement is complete or is abandoned... [§ 66-11-115(a)] Every remote contractor shall have the lien provided by this part... provided, that the remote contractor: (1) Satisfies all of the requirements set forth in § 66-11-145, if applicable; and (2) Within the time provided for recording sworn statements set out in § 66-11-112(a), serves a notice of lien, in writing, on the owner of the property on which the improvement is being made.”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). For an original contractor, the statute itself says recording within this period is "not... as concerns the owner" - it protects priority against later third-party purchasers/encumbrancers only. For a subcontractor, supplier, or preconstruction service provider, § 66-11-115(a)(2) makes serving this notice on the owner, within the identical window, one of two express conditions (alongside § 66-11-145's monthly notice, "if applicable") for having a lien "provided by this part" at all.
Also stated next to this deadline.
The same 90-day window serves two different legal purposes depending on role - read this rule's description carefully rather than assume it means the same thing for every role.
"Abandoned" means a 90-day cessation of work coupled with intent to stop permanently or indefinitely (§ 66-11-112(a), confirmed).
A prescribed notice-of-lien form is referenced at § 66-11-112(d) ("may be in substantially the form provided in") - its actual text was not independently confirmed this session; see `limitations`.
Weekend and holiday rollover
NoticeGuard does not model a weekend or holiday extension for Tennessee. 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
A remote contractor's (subcontractor/supplier) own deadline to commence suit to enforce the lien (§ 66-11-115(b)) is NOT modeled. The confirmed, verbatim primary-source text reads only "The lien shall continue for the period of ninety (90) days from..." before being cut off by a CAPTCHA wall on the source portal's full-document view - the actual anchor event is not stated in what could be independently verified. A secondary source (a law firm's practitioner summary) suggests the anchor is service of the notice of lien on the owner, but this app does not encode a deadline whose anchor was not independently confirmed from the primary source, consistent with this app's standing rule never to add a rule from anything but verified statute text.
The consequence of a remote contractor missing the monthly notice of nonpayment (§ 66-11-145(b)) is not fully confirmed - the primary source's snippet cuts off at "...shall have no..." - so this rule's `consequence` field states only what was actually confirmed (the notice requirement itself), not the specific penalty.
The recording deadline (§ 66-11-112(a)) explicitly does NOT bind the owner - recording within 90 days of completion/abandonment only preserves lien priority against subsequent third-party purchasers or encumbrancers without notice. For a remote contractor specifically, the SAME 90-day act also independently serves as the § 66-11-115(a)(2) notice-of-lien-on-owner requirement, which IS a real precondition to having lien rights against the owner at all - this rule's own description and notes explain which purpose applies to which role.
The monthly notice of nonpayment (§ 66-11-145(a)) is, by the statute's own text, a ROLLING obligation - one notice per calendar month in which the remote contractor worked and remains unpaid, not a single deadline. This app shows only the deadline for the claimant's LAST such month (using `lastFurnishing`), not each month's individual notice.
Well-drilling liens (§ 66-11-141, a separate lien type with its own 2-year continuance and a distinct grandfather-clause filing rule) are not modeled - no role or project type in this app distinguishes a well-drilling project.
Multiple lots or improvements under one contract each start their own independent clock under §§ 66-11-112/66-11-115 (§ 66-11-118) - this app models a single job with a single set of dates, not a multi-parcel project.
Weekend/holiday rollover is NOT modeled - deliberately, not by oversight. Tenn. Code Ann. § 1-3-102 is a general statute of construction applying to "any act provided by law," and nothing in Chapter 11 was found to carve it out, but no Tennessee case confirming its application to Chapter 11 lien deadlines specifically was found. The same honest gap as most other states in this app.
Only §§ 66-11-102, 66-11-106, 66-11-112(a), 66-11-115(a)-(b), 66-11-118, 66-11-145(a), and 1-3-102 have been read, and several of those only partially due to the CAPTCHA limitation described above. The rest of Chapter 11 is not incorporated.
This app generates the Notice of Lien from § 66-11-112(d) (a PERMISSIVE - "may be," not mandatory - safe-harbor form). That text was confirmed complete via a different primary source than this state's deadline citations: the 2007 Public Chapter 189 session law itself, hosted by the Tennessee Secretary of State (publications.tnsosfiles.com), which sidesteps the CAPTCHA-gated Lexis-hosted Tennessee Code Unannotated this app's other Tennessee citations had to work around. Cross-checked against Justia's current codified text for subsections (a)-(c) (word-for-word except trivial codifier modernizations); Justia does not carry the form text in (d) at all.
A real UI gap, not a statute gap: the app screen has no toggle to declare a project one- to four-family residential for this state. The engine only surfaces a flag toggle when it unlocks a DIFFERENT computed deadline (see `engine.ts`'s own `flagsForRole` doc comment) - Tennessee's residential flag only turns the monthly-notice-of-nonpayment rule OFF, with nothing to replace it, so by the engine's existing design no toggle appears. A subcontractor or supplier on a genuinely 1-4 family residential project will still see this app compute a notice-of-nonpayment deadline that does not really apply to them - a false positive (extra, unneeded caution), never a missed real deadline, but worth fixing in a future session (e.g. a general-purpose "not a residential project I'm exempt on" affordance) rather than leaving quietly.
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.