Sec. 107a.
(1) A design professional who enters into a written contract with an owner, or with a person acting as an agent of the owner, to provide professional services relating to the proposed or actual erection, alteration, repair, or removal of a structure on or other improvement to real property may record a notice with the register of deeds for the county in which the property is located. The notice must be in substantially the following form:
| NOTICE OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONTRACT |
| Under a written contract dated ___________________ between ____________________, owner, and ______________________, design professional, the design professional is to furnish or has furnished professional services relating to the proposed or actual erection, alteration, repair, or removal of a structure on or other improvement to real property described as follows: |
| Insert description of services |
| The legal description of the real property is as follows: |
| Insert legal description |
(3) A notice under this section is valid for 1 year after the date it is recorded. The design professional may record a subsequent notice with respect to the written contract. All of the requirements of this section, including the time limitation of subsection (2), apply to a subsequent notice.
(4) If an actual physical improvement is made to the property after a notice is recorded under this section, the notice is only effective from the date of the first actual physical improvement.
(5) This section, or the recording of a notice under this section, does not affect the requirements of this act regarding the creation of a construction lien, including requirements of section 107, the steps necessary to claim a lien, or the manner of enforcing a lien.
History: Add. 2018, Act 367, Imd. Eff. Dec. 12, 2018