3166-3168
CIVIL CODE
SECTION 3166-3168
3166. No assignment by the owner or contractor of construction loan funds, whether made before or after a stop notice or bonded stop notice is given to a construction lender, shall be held to take priority over the stop notice or bonded stop notice, and such assignment shall have no effect insofar as the rights of claimants who give the stop notice or bonded stop notice are concerned. 3167. (a) If the money withheld or required to be withheld pursuant to any bonded stop notice shall be insufficient to pay in full the valid claims of all persons by whom such notices were given, the same shall be distributed among such persons in the same ratio that their respective claims bear to the aggregate of all such valid claims. Such pro rata distribution shall be made among the persons entitled to share therein without regard to the order of time in which their respective notices may have been given or their respective actions, if any, commenced. (b) If the money withheld or required to be withheld pursuant to any stop notice shall be insufficient to pay in full the valid claims of all persons by whom such notices were given, the same shall be distributed among such persons in the same ratio that their respective claims bear to the aggregate of all such valid claims. Such pro rata distribution shall be made among the persons entitled to share therein without regard to the order of time in which their respective notices may have been given or their respective actions, if any, commenced. 3168. Any person who willfully gives a false stop notice or bonded stop notice or who willfully includes in his notice labor, services, equipment, or materials not furnished for the property described in such notice forfeits all right to participate in the pro rata distribution of such money and all right to any lien under Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 3109).