Oregon Lien Release
The Lien You Are Releasing
Pull your stamped copy of the lien — everything on this page is on it. If the details here do not match the instrument on record, the release does not release it, and no one at the counter will catch that for you.
This instrument says the debt is paid.
Oregon has no statute prescribing this instrument, so what it says is what binds you. Signing it while money is still owed puts a false statement on the public record and gives away the security you filed to protect. If you have been paid part of it, this is not the document you want — talk to a construction attorney about what is.
Where this gets filed: County recording officer. The recording officer of the county — OR COUNTIES — in which the improvement or some part of it is situated (ORS 87.035(2)). An improvement straddling a county line was filed in each and has to be released in each.
None for a lien released because it was paid. ORS 87.025(5) requires a supplier of materials to execute a waiver on payment and demand but sets no days and no damages. The ten-day/$500 remedy in ORS 87.076(4) is not a paid-lien penalty: it needs BOTH that the lien went unreleased for ten days after a written demand served under ORS 87.018 (in person or by registered or certified mail) AND that no foreclosure suit was brought within ORS 87.055 — a claimant who sues on time is immune however the demand was handled. Note the same subsection cuts the claimant's way twice: § 87.076(4)(b) awards fees to a defendant who tendered at least the damages later awarded, and § 87.076(4)(c) gives a claimant who WINS the foreclosure suit its actual costs of addressing the demand or $500, whichever is greater. And ORS 87.346 (10 days, $100), which search results surface first, governs CHATTEL liens; it has nothing to do with a construction lien.