Massachusetts Construction Lien Deadline Calculator, Two Races Thirty Days Apart
Massachusetts does not give you a deadline. It runs two races of three and stacks them thirty days apart. Your notice of contract is due not later than the earliest of sixty days after a notice of substantial completion is filed, ninety days after a notice of termination is filed, or ninety days after the last day anyone in the general contractor's chain worked. Your statement of account is then due not later than the earliest of ninety, one hundred and twenty and one hundred and twenty measured from those same three events. Read that twice and the problem comes into focus: two of the three starting guns are documents other people file. The notice of substantial completion is executed by the owner and the contractor together, the notice of termination by the owner alone, and neither of them waits for you. The day one of those lands at the registry your remaining time can drop by a month at both stages at once. Worse, you are entitled to be told only if you did something first. This is the inverse of Michigan, where a document that never appears means your clock never starts. Here a document that does appear cuts your clock short. Put your dates in and the page shows you which of the three limbs is actually setting your deadline today, what the other two would do if they fired tomorrow, and the one certified letter that stops you being the last person on the job to find out.
Worked example
These are the figures the calculator opens with and the answer it gives. Change anything above and every number below moves with it.
- What you are on this jobSubcontractor, supplier or equipment lessor
- Your contract for this workIn writing
- Design subcontractors only, the owner's written approvalMy engagement was approved in writing
- Notice of substantial completion, section 2ANone filed that I know of
- Days since that notice was filed or recorded20 days
- Notice of termination, section 2BNone filed that I know of
- Days since the termination notice was filed20 days
- Days since the last day of work that counts for you30 days
- Days since YOU started work on this job60 days
- Where you stand with the general contractorNeither, he has nothing from me
- Your notice of contractNot filed yet
- Your statement of account, section 8Not filed yet
- Days since you filed the statement of account10 days
- Laborers only, days of personal labor you performed40 days
- Days of slack you want before the deadline7 days
Days left to file the notice of contract60 days
Nobody has to tell you, and that is the single most important sentence on this page. The statutory form in section 2A has the owner state that he served written notice of the filing on 'every person who has filed or recorded prior to the date this notice is filed or recorded notice of contract under section four', and has the contractor state that he served it on every person with a written contract directly with him or who gave him a notice of identification. You are none of the three. So the notice of substantial completion that cuts your notice of contract window from 90 days to 60, and your statement window from 120 days to 90, can be recorded tomorrow morning without a word reaching you. Section 8 measures limb one from 'the filing or recording' and not from any service, and the only sentence in 2A about failure to serve protects third parties who relied in good faith rather than the claimant who was left out. Do not read that silence as time in hand. The two cheap moves that end this exposure are filing your notice of contract now, which section 2 and section 4 both permit at any time after the contract is executed, or sending a notice of identification.
Your thirty days to send a notice of identification went by 30 days ago and it cannot be recovered, so work with what that leaves. Two things follow. Your lien, if you perfect it, is held by section 4 to the amount due or to become due under the subcontract between the original contractor and the subcontractor above you as of the day you file your notice of contract, which means the figure is somebody else's contract balance rather than your invoice. And because you are not on the section 2A service list, filing your notice of contract is now the only way to get on it. File it. Section 4 lets you file at any time after the written contract was executed, whether or not the work has been performed, so there is nothing left to wait for.
One number on this page is probably not the number you would have entered on your own. Limb three is measured from the last day 'a person entitled to enforce a lien under section two or anyone claiming by, through or under him' performed or furnished, which is the general contractor's entire chain and not your own crew. If you demobilized in the spring and the job ran into the summer, your ninety days did not start when your truck left. If the job stopped the week after you did, they did. This is the opposite of almost every other state, where the date is your last day, so check it against a superintendent's log or the pay applications rather than against your own invoices.
There is a move available here that does not exist in most states, and the last sentence of section 8 is what allows it: 'Nothing in this section shall prohibit the filing or recording of a statement under this section prior to the filing or recording of the notices under section two A or two B.' File early and limbs one and two stop being able to reach you, because a statement already on file cannot be shortened by a notice recorded afterwards. Do not import the Michigan trade off here. There, recording early spends part of a foreclosure year that runs a full 365 days, so hurrying costs something real. Section 11 gives you ninety days from your own filing however early it is, so filing early costs you nothing on the deadline side and simply moves a short suit window forward. The only thing it asks is that you diary the suit date the same day.
Three things this page deliberately does not do. It does not decide whether your job reached substantial completion, because section 2A defines that as work being sufficiently complete so that it can be occupied or utilized for its intended use, which is a judgment about a building. It does not price anything, and the section 4 cap in particular turns on a contract balance only the parties above you can produce. And it does not touch public work, which is a separate chapter with a bond rather than a lien. If any of those describes your question, the numbers above are the wrong tool.
| Your lien right, before any date | yes, written contractsection 2A defines a written contract as any written contract enforceable under the laws of the commonwealth, which is a lower bar than a formal subcontract but higher than an exchange that was never reduced to writing |
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| Which day the law counts from | the contractor's chainsection 4 runs limb three from the last day 'a person entitled to enforce a lien under section two or anyone claiming by, through or under him' worked, and section 2 runs it from 'such person or any person by, through or under him', which are the same set of people, so for a contractor and for his subcontractor alike the date is the last day anyone under that prime contract was on site |
| Notice of identification, day 30 | 30 days pastthis one caps your lien rather than killing it, so read the bottom row, but note that it also kept you off the section 2A service list and that is why the warnings above are worded the way they are |
| File the notice of contract | 60 days leftthe row below names which of the three triggers is setting this date, and section 2 says you may file at any time after the contract is executed, so there is no reason to be holding it |
| Which trigger is setting your date | the last day on siteno completion or termination notice has been filed, so the only limb running is the one measured from work, and it is the longest of the three, which is exactly why it can be cut without warning |
| File the statement of account | 90 days leftsection 8 wants a just and true account of the amount due with all just credits, a description of the property, and the owners named in the notice of contract, so it is not a form you fill in at the counter |
| Start the lawsuit, day 90 | not startedsection 11 measures ninety days from the filing of the statement required by section eight, and there is no such date yet, which means you still control when this clock begins |
| Laborer's thirty days of pay | not yours to claimthe thirty day allowance in section 1 is for personal labor, and section 4 expressly excepts those claimants from its cap |
| What being late costs you | the lien, and the captwo different losses are running here, the deadlines above which dissolve the lien outright, and the section 4 cap which holds a second tier claimant to whatever is owed on the subcontract above him as of the day he files |
What this calculator assumes
- Massachusetts does not give you one deadline. It gives you two races of three, and the two are thirty days apart at every limb. Section 4 says a notice of contract goes in not later than the earliest of 60 days after a notice of substantial completion, 90 days after a notice of termination, or 90 days after the last day of work. Section 8 then says the statement of account goes in not later than the earliest of 90, 120 and 120 measured from those same three events. So the same document landing at the registry moves both of your deadlines at once, and it moves them by different amounts.
- Two of the three triggers are documents other people file. The notice of substantial completion under section 2A is executed by the owner AND the contractor together, and the notice of termination under section 2B is executed by the owner alone. Neither of them needs your signature and neither of them waits for you. This page therefore treats an unfiled notice as a fact about today rather than as safety, because the day it is filed your remaining time can drop by a month without anybody telephoning you.
- You are entitled to be told only if you did one of three things first: filed your own notice of contract under section 4, contracted directly with the general contractor, or sent him a notice of identification. The statutory form in section 2A lists exactly those people. If none of them describes you, no one owes you a word, and section 8 still measures limb one from the filing rather than from any service. This page says so plainly rather than implying that being kept in the dark buys you time.
- Limb three is not measured from your own last day. Section 4 runs it from the last day 'a person entitled to enforce a lien under section two or anyone claiming by, through or under him' worked, which is the general contractor's whole chain. A subcontractor who finished in March does not lose his months because he finished early, and does not gain any because he finished late. Enter the last day anyone under that prime contract was on site, not the last day you were.
- This calculator counts days. It does not price a lien, it does not decide what substantial completion means on your job, and it does not read your contract. Section 2A defines substantial completion as work being sufficiently complete so that it can be occupied or utilized for its intended use, which is a judgment about a building rather than an arithmetic about a calendar.
Two races of three, and why the second one is not just the first plus thirty
Chapter 254 asks you to file two documents in order. First a notice of contract, which announces the lien. Then a statement of account, which states what you are owed. Each has its own deadline, and each deadline is the earliest of the same three events, measured with different numbers.
For the notice of contract the numbers are sixty, ninety and ninety. For the statement of account they are ninety, one hundred and twenty and one hundred and twenty. So every limb is thirty days later at the second stage than at the first. That regularity makes the scheme look simpler than it is, and it hides the thing that actually costs people their liens: the two races can be won by different limbs.
Suppose no notice of substantial completion exists yet. Your notice of contract is due ninety days after the last day anyone in the contractor's chain worked, and your statement one hundred and twenty days after the same day. You file your notice on day eighty. On day eighty-five the owner and the contractor record a notice of substantial completion. Limb one now applies to your statement, which is due ninety days after that recording rather than one hundred and twenty days after the last work, and on these facts that is the earlier date. Your second deadline just moved, after your first one was already satisfied, because of a document you did not sign.
That is the reason this page asks separately whether each notice has been filed and how long ago. A page that only asked for your last day of work would give you the answer to the third limb and call it the deadline, which is right until the moment it is badly wrong.
One relief exists and it is in the last sentence of section 8. Nothing in that section prohibits filing a statement before any notice of substantial completion or notice of termination is recorded. A statement already on file cannot be shortened by a document recorded afterwards. That single sentence is the strongest move on this page.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 254, section 4Such person may file or record the notice of contract at any time after execution of the written contract whether or not the date for performance stated in such written contract has passed and whether or not the work under such contract has been performed, but not later than the earliest of: (i) sixty days after filing or recording the notice of substantial completion under section two A; or (ii) ninety days after filing or recording of the notice of termination under section two B; or (iii) ninety days after the last day a person entitled to enforce a lien under section two or anyone claiming by, through or under him performed or furnished labor or materials or both labor and materials to the project or furnished rental equipment, appliances or tools, or performed professional services.
Read the first half as carefully as the second. You may file at any time after the written contract was executed, whether or not the work has been performed. There is nothing to wait for, and every day you wait is a day one of the other two limbs could fire.
Limb three is not measured from your last day
This is the single most commonly misread sentence in the chapter, and it goes the opposite way to almost every other state in this group of calculators.
Limb three in section 4 runs from the last day a person entitled to enforce a lien under section two, or anyone claiming by, through or under him, performed or furnished. A person entitled to enforce a lien under section two is the general contractor, and anyone claiming by, through or under him is every subcontractor and supplier on that prime contract. So the date is the last day anybody under that contract was on site, not the last day your own crew was.
Section 8 repeats the formula word for word for the statement of account, so the same shared date governs both races.
The practical effect cuts both ways and both are worth knowing. If you demobilized in March and the job ran to June, your ninety days did not start in March, and a generic lien deadline page that asked only for your own last day has already told you that you are late when you are not. If the job stopped the week after you did, your window really is as short as it looks, and finishing early bought you nothing.
Because the date belongs to someone else's schedule, get it from someone else's records. A superintendent's daily log, the general contractor's pay applications, or the owner's certificate of occupancy file will all fix it better than your own invoices will. Section 2 does the same thing for a general contractor, measuring from the last day such person or any person by, through or under him worked, which for a general contractor is the same set of people and therefore the same date.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 254, section 8Liens under sections two and four shall be dissolved unless the contractor, subcontractor, or some person claiming by, through or under them, shall, not later than the earliest of: (i) ninety days after the filing or recording of the notice of substantial completion under section two A; (ii) one hundred and twenty days after the filing or recording of the notice of termination under section two B; or (iii) one hundred and twenty days after the last day a person, entitled to enforce a lien under section two or anyone claiming by, through or under him, performed or furnished labor or material or both labor and materials or furnished rental equipment, appliances or tools, file or record in the registry of deeds in the county or district where the land lies a statement, giving a just and true account of the amount due or to become due him, with all just credits, a brief description of the property, and the names of the owners set forth in the notice of contract.
The word dissolved is the whole lien, not a reduced one. Note also what the statement has to contain: a just and true account with all just credits, a description of the property, and the owners as named in your notice of contract. It is not a form you fill in at the counter.
Nobody has to tell you, unless you made them
Two of the three limbs fire when somebody else records a document. The obvious question is whether anyone has to let you know, and the answer is that three specific groups of people get told and nobody else does.
The statutory form in section 2A has the owner state that he served written notice of the filing on every person who had already filed or recorded a notice of contract under section four. It then has the contractor state that he served it on every person who has a written contract directly with him, and on every person who gave him a written notice of identification. That is the whole list. A second tier subcontractor who has filed nothing, contracted with a sub rather than the general, and sent no identification letter is on none of it.
The statute is candid about what happens when service fails, and it is not what a claimant would hope. The sentence about failure to serve protects third parties who relied in good faith on the recorded notice. It does not say the claimant's deadline is extended, and section 8 measures limb one from the filing or recording rather than from any service. Being owed a letter you never received is an argument to make to a judge, not a deadline you can plan around.
So treat the absence of a notice as a fact about today rather than as time in hand. There are exactly two cheap ways off this list, and both of them are on this page. File your notice of contract, which section 4 lets you do at any time after the written contract was executed. Or send the notice of identification described in the next section, which costs a certified stamp.
A general contractor does not have this problem, because he signs the notice of substantial completion himself. Design professionals may have a version of it that is worse, because the section 2A service list names people who filed under section four and people with direct contracts with the contractor, and a design professional filing under 2C or 2D is neither. That is a question for a Massachusetts construction lawyer, and it is one more reason for a design professional to file early.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 254, section 2A, from inside the statutory formThe undersigned contractor hereby states that he has served written notice of the recording or filing of this notice of substantial completion upon every person who has entered into a written contract directly with the contractor or who has given written notice of identification to the contractor prior to the date this notice is filed or recorded as provided in said section four of said chapter two hundred and fifty-four of the General Laws.
Read it as a membership test rather than as a promise. Written contract directly with the contractor, or written notice of identification given to the contractor. If neither describes you, this sentence is about other people.
The notice of identification, thirty days from the day you started
Every other deadline in chapter 254 is measured from an ending. This one is measured from a beginning, which is why it is the one people discover a week too late.
Section 4 caps a claimant who has no direct contractual relationship with the original contractor. The lien cannot exceed the amount due or to become due under the subcontract between the original contractor and the subcontractor whose work includes yours, measured as of the day you file your notice of contract. That is somebody else's contract balance, not your invoice, and if the general has already paid the sub above you in full, the ceiling is zero.
The way out is one letter. Within thirty days of commencement of your performance, send the original contractor a written notice of identification by certified mail, return receipt requested, in substantially the form the section prints. The cap lifts.
The second thing it does is the reason to send it even if you are confident about the money. Giving that notice puts you on the contractor's service list in section 2A, so from that day he has to mail you a copy of any notice of substantial completion. One stamp buys both the ceiling and the eyes.
The statute is unusually forgiving about the contents. An inaccuracy in naming the contractor, or in other information in the notice, does not affect its validity provided there is actual notice, and the amount stated does not limit the amount of the lien. What it is not forgiving about is the thirty days, and laborers under section one are expressly carved out of the cap and therefore have no reason to send one.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 254, section 4If the person claiming a lien under this section has no direct contractual relationship with the original contractor, except for liens for labor by persons defined in section one of this chapter, the amount of such lien shall not exceed the amount due or to become due under the subcontract between the original contractor and the subcontractor whose work includes the work of the person claiming the lien as of the date such person files his notice of contract, unless the person claiming such lien has, within thirty days of commencement of his performance, given written notice of identification by certified mail return receipt requested to the original contractor in substantially the following form:
Note the measuring date for the cap: as of the date you file your notice of contract. Filing later does not raise the ceiling, it just gives the parties above you longer to pay each other down toward it.
Ninety days to sue, from a day you chose yourself
Section 11 gives you ninety days after the filing of the statement required by section eight to commence a civil action to enforce the lien, and dissolves the lien if you do not.
The date it counts from is one you selected, because you decided when to file the statement. Michigan does the same thing and gives a full year. Massachusetts gives ninety days, and that difference flips the advice completely.
In Michigan, recording early spends part of a long enforcement year, so hurrying has a real cost and the page has to weigh it. Here the enforcement window is ninety days whenever it starts, so filing early costs you nothing at all on the deadline side, and it buys immunity from limbs one and two, which are the only parts of the scheme you cannot see coming. File early. The only thing early filing asks of you is that you put the suit date in the diary the same morning, because ninety days is not long enough to find a lawyer, assemble the account and get a complaint on file if you start late.
Section 11 forgives honest paperwork slips and is explicit about the one it does not forgive. An inaccuracy in the description of the property does not affect validity if the description is sufficient to identify the property, and an inaccuracy in the amount does not either, unless it is shown that the person filing the statement has wilfully and knowingly claimed more than is due him. Sloppy is survivable. Inflated is not. The statute keeps that older spelling of the word and this page follows it rather than correcting the section it is quoting.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 254, section 11The lien shall be dissolved unless a civil action to enforce it is commenced within ninety days after the filing of the statement required by section eight. The validity of the lien shall not be affected by an inaccuracy in the description of the property to which it attaches, if the description is sufficient to identify the property, or by an inaccuracy in stating the amount due for labor or material or professional services unless it is shown that the person filing the statement has wilfully and knowingly claimed more than is due him.
Commenced, not prepared. The clerk's office has to accept a complaint inside the ninety days, so the court's calendar is part of this number in a way it is not part of any other deadline on the page.
The three other shapes on one page: design professionals, laborers, and the writing gate
Design professionals run a shorter and quieter version of the scheme. Sections 2C and 2D say the earlier of and name two limbs, sixty days after a notice of substantial completion and ninety days after the last professional services. There is no notice of termination limb for them at all. Then section 8 does something it does nowhere else: instead of a deadline measured from an event, it gives them thirty days after the last day a notice of contract could have been filed. Their statement date is computed from another deadline, so an error about limb two is an error twice over, and the second one is invisible because it inherits the first.
Section 2D adds a gate nothing else in the chapter has. A person furnishing professional services under a written subcontract with a 2C design professional has a lien only if the engagement was approved in writing by or on behalf of the owner. Both halves are required, and no later deadline repairs a missing approval. It plays the same structural role in Massachusetts that section 570.1114 plays in Michigan, except that Michigan's gate binds contractors and this one binds design subconsultants.
Laborers under section one are the third shape, and it is not a deadline at all. A laborer files no notice of contract, expressly, because section one gives the lien under the provisions of this chapter other than section four. He files only the statement, and the lien covers not more than thirty days work actually performed for the ninety days next prior to that filing. There is no cliff. The window slides forward every day, and every day of delay drops another day of pay off the back of it. This page counts that for a laborer instead of pretending there is a single fatal date.
Finally, the gate that catches everyone else. Section 2 gives the lien to a person entering into a written contract with the owner. Section 4 gives it to a person furnishing under a written contract with a contractor or with a subcontractor of such contractor. Section 2A defines a written contract as any written contract enforceable under the laws of the commonwealth, which is a lower bar than a formal subcontract but higher than a job that was never reduced to writing. Massachusetts binds the whole chain, which is wider than Michigan, where the writing requirement reaches contractors only, and wider than Illinois, where it reaches subcontractors only. Only the section one laborer escapes it, because his lien arises by virtue of an agreement with, or by consent of, the owner.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 254, section 1A person to whom a debt is due for personal labor performed in the erection, alteration, repair or removal of a building or structure upon land or improvement or alteration to real property, by virtue of an agreement with, or by consent of, the owner of such building or structure, or of a person having authority from or rightfully acting for such owner in procuring or furnishing such labor, shall, under the provisions of this chapter, other than section four, have a lien upon such building or structure and upon such interest in such real property, land, building, structure, or improvement owned by the party authorizing or consenting to said work, for not more than thirty days' work actually performed for the ninety days next prior to his filing a statement as provided in section eight.
Three separate things in one sentence. No writing is required. Section four does not apply, so there is no notice of contract to file. And the entitlement is a rolling thirty days inside a ninety day lookback measured backward from the day you file, which is why nothing about it can be expressed as a countdown.
Questions people ask
Nobody told me a notice of substantial completion had been filed. Does that give me more time?
Almost certainly not, and this is the hardest thing on the page. Section 8 measures limb one from the filing or recording of the notice, not from the day anyone served it on you. The only sentence in section 2A about a failure to serve says that failure shall not prejudice the rights of third parties, which protects people who relied on the recorded document in good faith rather than the claimant who was left out. You may well have an argument, and it is worth putting to a Massachusetts construction lawyer, but it is an argument to make rather than a deadline to rely on. The practical answer is to make sure it cannot happen again on the next job by sending a notice of identification within thirty days of starting, which puts you on the contractor's service list under section 2A.
Which date do I enter for the last day of work?
The last day anybody in the general contractor's chain was on the project, not the last day your own crew was. Section 4 measures limb three from the last day a person entitled to enforce a lien under section two, or anyone claiming by, through or under him, performed or furnished, and a person entitled to enforce a lien under section two is the general contractor. Section 8 uses the identical formula. If you finished months before the job did, that is good news and most generic lien pages will get it wrong in your disfavor. Get the date from a superintendent's log or from the general contractor's pay applications rather than from your own invoices, because it is not your date to know.
Should I file my statement of account early or wait?
Early, and Massachusetts is unusual in that there is almost no argument on the other side. The last sentence of section 8 expressly permits filing a statement before any notice under section 2A or 2B is recorded, and a statement already on file cannot be shortened by a document recorded afterwards. Filing early therefore takes limbs one and two off the table, which are the only two you cannot see coming. It costs you nothing on the deadline side either, because section 11 gives you ninety days from your own filing date whenever that is. Do not import the advice from a Michigan page here. There, recording early spends part of a year long enforcement window and the trade is real. Here there is no trade, only a diary entry you must not forget to make.
I am a second tier subcontractor and I missed the thirty days to send a notice of identification. Is my lien dead?
No, but it has a ceiling on it. Section 4 caps a claimant with no direct contractual relationship with the original contractor at the amount due or to become due under the subcontract between the original contractor and the subcontractor above you, measured as of the date you file your notice of contract. Your lien survives, it just cannot exceed that figure, which is a number only the parties above you can produce. Two things follow. File your notice of contract now rather than later, because the cap is measured on the day you file and the balance above you generally falls over time. And note that missing the letter also kept you off the section 2A service list, which is why this page warns you the way it does about notices you will not hear about.
The owner filed a notice of termination and a notice of substantial completion. Which one counts?
Ordinarily they cannot both be on file, and that is worth checking before you rely on either. Section 2B applies where the contract was terminated before a notice of substantial completion was filed and its copies delivered, so the two are alternatives rather than a pair. This page applies the earliest of rule to whatever you enter, which gives you the shorter deadline and errs in the safe direction, but which document is genuinely recorded decides whether your notice of contract window is sixty days or ninety. Get the recorded dates off the registry of deeds index for the county where the land lies rather than from memory or from something the general contractor said on the phone.
My contract was verbal. Do I have a lien in Massachusetts?
Not under sections 2, 4, 2C or 2D. Section 2 begins with a person entering into a written contract with the owner, and section 4 requires labor, material, rental equipment or professional services furnished under a written contract with a contractor or with a subcontractor of such contractor. Section 2A defines a written contract as any written contract enforceable under the laws of the commonwealth, which is a lower bar than a formal subcontract, so a signed proposal or an accepted written quote may be enough where a series of phone calls is not. Massachusetts binds the whole chain this way, which is wider than Michigan, where the writing requirement catches contractors only. The exception is a section one laborer, whose lien arises by virtue of an agreement with, or by consent of, the owner and needs nothing in writing. If you are outside the chapter, your claim on the contract against whoever hired you is still live, and it is a different remedy on a different timetable.
I am an architect. Why are my numbers different from the ones the contractor on the same job is using?
Because sections 2C and 2D are a different scheme sharing a chapter. They say the earlier of and name two limbs, sixty days after a notice of substantial completion and ninety days after your last professional services, with no notice of termination limb at all. Then section 8 gives you thirty days after the last day a notice of contract could have been filed for the statement of account, rather than a period measured from an event. That makes your second deadline a function of your first, so if you are wrong about when your last professional services were performed you are wrong twice and the second error is invisible. If you are a subconsultant rather than the prime design professional, check section 2D's other requirement before anything else: your engagement must have been approved in writing by or on behalf of the owner, and without that there is no lien for any deadline to preserve.
Does this calculator cover public projects or the bond?
No. This page is about chapter 254, which attaches a lien to private land. Public construction in Massachusetts runs on a payment bond under a different chapter with its own notice periods and its own list of people to serve, and none of the dates here apply to it. Nor does this page price anything: the section 4 cap in particular turns on a contract balance between two other parties, and section 2A leaves substantial completion as a judgment about whether the work is sufficiently complete so that it can be occupied or utilized for its intended use, which is a question about a building rather than a calculation about a calendar.
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