A.R.S. §33-992.01 · §33-992.02 — Arizona preliminary notice service
Your Arizona Preliminary
Twenty Day Notice.
$39 flat, every recipient included.
Arizona gives you 20 days from first furnishing to serve the preliminary notice — it is a necessary prerequisite to any lien claim (A.R.S. §33-992.01(B)). A 3-minute wizard becomes a statute-correct notice, submitted for certified mailing in minutes to the owner, the original contractor, the lender, and the party you contracted with, with the proof archived permanently.
Statutory text pinned from azleg.gov — cited on every document.
IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARIZONA REVISED STATUTES SECTION 33-992.01, THIS IS NOT A LIEN. THIS IS NOT A REFLECTION ON THE INTEGRITY OF ANY CONTRACTOR OR SUBCONTRACTOR…
How do I send an Arizona preliminary 20-day notice?
Serve it on the owner, the original contractor, the construction lender if any, and the person you contracted with (A.R.S. §33-992.01(B)), not later than 20 days after you first furnish to the jobsite (§33-992.01(C)). Section 33-992.01(F) allows mailing it by first class mail with a certificate of mailing, or by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, to each recipient's residence or business address; service is complete when the notice is deposited in the mail. Keep the proof §33-992.02 describes: the signed acknowledgment of receipt, or an affidavit of mailing with the certified mail receipt attached.
Can someone send it for me?
Yes. NoticeSent prepares the notice from your answers, with the statutory language and the §33-992.02 acknowledgment block, and submits it for USPS certified mailing within minutes of payment to every required recipient, each with its own tracking number, plus a permanent archive of the mailing record. One flat $39, postage included; you verify every name and address before paying. NoticeSent is a document preparation and mailing service, not a law firm.
The deadline, exactly
The notice must be given not later than 20 days after you first furnished labor, professional services, materials, machinery, fixtures or tools to the jobsite (§33-992.01(C)).
Mailed notice — certified mail is an enumerated method — is complete at the time of deposit in the mail (§33-992.01(F)). The mailing evidence is exactly what your archive holds.
A late notice still protects work furnished within 20 days before service, and everything after (§33-992.01(E)) — so a missed window is a reason to mail sooner, not to give up.
Not sure where you stand? Run the free deadline calculator — it applies these rules to your first-furnishing date and cites each one.
Proof of mailing, built in
Arizona ties lien rights to notice plus proof of service(§33-981(D)). The statute accepts a signed acknowledgment of receipt — which is printed on the notice we generate — or, when the recipient never returns it, an affidavit of mailing with the certified mail receipt attached (§33-992.02).
The §33-992.02 acknowledgment block is part of the served document, ready for the recipient to sign and return.
Every recipient is certified-mailed with its own USPS tracking number, captured at submission.
Time, place, and manner of mailing, timestamped — the facts the §33-992.02 affidavit path calls for, kept on a permanent page.
How it works
Answer a short wizard
Parties, jobsite, estimate, first-furnishing date — about 3 minutes. The document carries the exact statutory language and citations.
We certified-mail every required recipient
Owner, original contractor, lender when one exists, and the party you contracted with (§33-992.01(B)) — submitted for certified mailing in minutes of payment. You verify every name and address before paying.
Your evidence archive
The PDF, certified tracking number for each recipient, and a timestamped record — organized the way §33-992.02 expects your mailing evidence to be kept.
Questions, answered straight
Who needs to send this notice?
In general, everyone furnishing labor, professional services, materials, machinery, fixtures or tools to an Arizona private job — except a person performing actual labor for wages — must serve the preliminary twenty day notice as a prerequisite to lien rights (§33-992.01(B)). Arizona also conditions lien rights on contractor licensure where a license is required (§33-981(C)). Whether any of this applies to your situation is a legal question we cannot answer; when in doubt, ask an attorney. The statute is cited on every document so it can be verified.
What about the estimate?
The notice includes an estimate of the total price. One notice covers the whole job unless the actual total exceeds that estimate by 30% or more, in which case an additional notice is required (§33-992.01(G), (H)) — estimate on the high side.
Is this legal advice?
No. NoticeSent is a document preparation and mailing service, not a law firm. We prepare and mail documents from the information you provide and give no advice or guarantees about outcomes.
What exactly do I get?
The generated notice PDF with the statutory acknowledgment block, USPS certified mailing with tracking to each required recipient, and a permanent archive page with a timestamped record of every step — for one flat $39.
A Notice of Intent to Lien, generated and certified-mailed to the owner — and the contractor, if you choose — for $49 flat, any state.
Send a Notice of Intent to Lien — $49Run the 20-day calculator once per job and we'll email you 10, 5, and 2 days before the statutory deadline. No account; stop anytime.
Track a deadline freeThe clock is statutory. The proof should be too.
20 days from first furnishing. One flat $39.
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