Rhode Island 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.
Rhode Island 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: Land evidence records of the city or town. The land evidence records of the town or city where the notice of intention was filed (§§ 34-28-4, 34-28-5). § 34-28-26 itself contains no recording directive.
None. Chapter 34-28 sets no deadline and provides no damages or fee-shifting. The mortgage-discharge penalty at § 34-26-5 is mortgage-specific by its terms; extending it here is unsettled.