The Senate Committee on Economic Development and Technology passed SB 257 which establishes a state construction registry supervised by the office of technology to permit the electronic filing of a mechanic’s lien and ancillary documents.
The bill requires the office to contract with a third party to develop, operate, and maintain the database. That strikes me as a little odd. I wonder if it’s a practical determination that the Office of Technology can’t do the job, or an ideological determination that government functions should be outsourced.
In any case, given the available technology, I can’t disagree with the idea of a statewide mechanic’s lien database.
I don’t have a lot of elaboration to offer at the moment, but I thought I’d mention my understanding that real estate law is pretty much the oldest branch of the civil common law. Tort law, by comparison, is in its infancy.
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