2 deadlines NoticeGuard models for Vermont: 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 Every deadline in this app comes from a statute read on the date shown next to its citation - that snapshot can go out of date.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.
Filed with the clerk of the town where the real estate is situated, counted from the date payment became due for the last labor performed or materials furnished.
What it counts from. 180 days after payment due date (for the last labor or materials furnished).
Applies to. Original contractor, Subcontractor, Supplier, Preconstruction service.
9 V.S.A. § 1921 (c) Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-21
“A lien herein provided for shall not continue in force for more than 180 days from the time when payment became due for the last of such labor performed or materials furnished unless a notice of such lien is filed in the office of the town clerk as hereinafter provided.”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). The statute's own mechanism: the lien "shall not continue in force for more than 180 days" from this date unless the memorandum is timely filed.
Also stated next to this deadline.
This is a payment-due date, not a furnishing date - for a claimant paid immediately on completion the two may coincide, but they are not the same fact where payment terms (e.g., net 30) delay when payment is actually due.
Commence action to enforce the lien
Counted from the date the memorandum of lien was filed - used when payment was already due at the time of filing.
What it counts from. 180 days after notice of construction lien recorded.
Applies to. Original contractor, Subcontractor, Supplier, Preconstruction service.
9 V.S.A. § 1924 (sole operative sentence) Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-21
“Within 180 days from the time of filing such memorandum, if such payment is due at the time of such filing and within 180 days from the time such payment becomes due, if not due at the time of such filing, such person may commence his or her action for the same and cause such real estate or other property to be attached thereon.”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). The statute frames commencing the action within this period as what preserves the right to attach the property - the practical enforcement mechanism for the lien.
Also stated next to this deadline.
This app models only the branch where payment was already due at the time of filing (see this state's "Honest limits" for the unmodeled alternate branch).
If judgment is obtained, a certified copy must be recorded within 5 months to hold the property as security (§ 1925) - a real, separate post-judgment deadline not modeled here.
Weekend and holiday rollover
NoticeGuard does not model a weekend or holiday extension for Vermont. 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 document is generated for Vermont - confirmed absent, not merely unresearched. § 1923 requires only "a written memorandum... asserting his or her claim" with no itemized content list anywhere in the subchapter, unlike every state whose central document this app does generate.
The enforcement deadline (§ 1924) genuinely forks on whether payment was already due at the time the memorandum was filed: if so, the 180 days runs from filing (`noticeOfLienRecorded`); if payment was not yet due at filing, the 180 days instead runs from whenever it becomes due afterward. This app models only the first branch (payment already due at filing) - the overwhelmingly common case for a claimant filing specifically because of nonpayment - and does not model the second, since it would require comparing two dates this app's condition system cannot express (only presence/absence of an anchor, not which of two anchors comes first).
A subcontractor/supplier without a direct contract with the owner must first give the owner written notice claiming a lien, including the date payment is due if known (§ 1921(b)) - this has no independent day-count deadline of its own (the lien "shall extend to the portions of the contract price remaining unpaid at the time such notice is received," with no cutoff stated for giving it), so it is not modeled as a due date here.
Foreclosure mechanics after judgment (§ 1925: recording a certified copy of the judgment within 5 months to make the property held as security) are not modeled - a post-judgment step, not the enforcement deadline itself.
Weekend/holiday rollover is NOT modeled - no general Vermont computation-of-time statute was researched this pass.
Only §§ 1921 through 1924 have been read closely. The rest of Subchapter 1 - including the homestead and married-woman's-property provisions (§§ 1927, 1928) - was reviewed but not otherwise 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.