Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 55-213

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • oil-field equipment: means oil-field supplies, oil-field machinery, materials, heavy machinery, buildings, tubing, tanks, boilers, engines, casing, wire lines, sucker rods, oil pipelines, gas pipelines and all other material used in digging, drilling, torpedoing, operating, completing, maintaining or repairing any such oil or gas wells or oil pipelines or gas pipelines, or in the construction or dismantling of refineries, casing-head gasoline plant and carbon black plants. See Kansas Statutes 55-212
  • person: includes one or more individuals, partnerships, associations, corporations, legal representatives, trustees and receivers in bankruptcy and reorganization of any group whether or not it is incorporated. See Kansas Statutes 55-212
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.

Any person who transports or hauls oil-field equipment under express contract with the owner or operator of any gas or oil lease-hold interest in real property, or the owner or operator of any gas pipeline or oil pipeline or the owner of any oil-field equipment and material, or with the trustee, agent, or receiver of any such owner, shall have a lien upon interest of such owner in the oil-field equipment so transported and hauled. Said lien shall include, in addition to the charge for hauling or transporting, labor performed, or materials used and expended in the transporting, erecting, dismantling, loading and unloading of any oil-field machinery, equipment or supplies hauled or transported and shall be of equal standing with the contractor’s lien provided by Kan. Stat. Ann. § 55-207.