§ 59475 Lien Priority Over Assessments

• •If you have a lien on a property, it comes before any other special liens added later.
• •The order of liens matters—the first one recorded gets paid first.
• •This rule only applies to special assessment liens, not all types of liens.

You fix someone’s house and put a lien on it because they didn’t pay you. Later, the city adds a lien for unpaid sidewalk repairs.

Your lien gets paid first because it was recorded before the city’s lien.