60-1108. Action by landowner for adjudication, cancellation. If any lien or liens are filed under the provisions of this article and no action to foreclose any of such liens is commenced, the owner of the land may file such owner's petition in the district court of the county in which such land is situated, making such lien claimants defendants therein, and praying for an adjudication of such lien or liens so claimed. If any such lien claimant shall fail to establish such claimant's lien, the court may tax against such claimant the whole or such portion of the costs of such action as may be just. If no action to foreclose or adjudicate any lien filed under the provisions of this article shall be instituted within the time provided in subsection (a) of K.S.A. 60-1105, and amendments thereto, the lien shall be considered canceled by limitation of law.
History: L. 1963, ch. 303, 60-1108; L. 1992, ch. 47, § 5; July 1.
Source or prior law:
L. 1889, ch. 168, § 10; L. 1909, ch. 182, § 657; R.S. 1923, 60-1409.
Law Review and Bar Journal References:
Survey of debtor-creditor law, Robert B. Morton, 12 K.L.R. 211, 225 (1963).
CASE ANNOTATIONS
Prior law cases, see G.S. 1949, 60-1409 and the 1961 Supp. thereto.
1. Action hereunder to secure adjudication of mechanic's lien. Book v. Everitt Lumber Co., Inc., 218 Kan. 121, 542 P.2d 669.
2. Applied; liens expired before motion to implement judgment filed. Boyce v. Knudson, 219 Kan. 357, 362, 363, 548 P.2d 712.
3. K.S.A. 60-1105(a) as statute of duration not limitation requiring action within one year to perfect lien determined. In re Birdview Satellite Communications, Inc., 90 B.R. 465, 470 (1988).
4. A mechanic's lienholder must act to defend its lien in foreclosure action to toll subsection (a)'s one-year time limit. Columbia Savings Ass'n v. McPheeters, 21 Kan. App. 2d 919, 921, 911 P.2d 187 (1996).
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