The Little Miller Act is a state statute which is based upon the federal act known as the Miller Act. These acts are vital for regulating the performance bond and surety industries in states, and making sure that contractors can fulfill their responsibilities to not just their clients, but to their ...
Category: Little Miller Acts
Virginia Little Miller Act
As you pursue your contracting business, you’re going to have to face the need for bonds of various types sooner or later. Every contractor needs to be bonded to bid on certain types of project. In fact, at the Federal level as well as in many states bonding is legally required for any public proj...
Mississippi’s Little Miller Act
Like other U.S. states, Mississippi has instituted a series of laws similar to the U.S. Little Miller Act. These laws protect public construction projects from builder’s liens by transferring liability to a surety agent. Surety bonds provided under the Little Miller Acts generally guarantee “ful...
Tennessee’s Little Miller Act
The state of Tennessee maintains its own set of laws mandating bonding for publicly funded projects, which are referred to collectively as Tennessee’s Little Miller Act. Unlike many other states, Tennessee’s set of Little Miller Act statutes offer much more flexibility when it comes to bonding. ...
South Carolina’s Little Miller Act
The South Carolina version of the U.S. Miller Act contains several requirements that make it different from its counterparts in other states. It is one of the few Little Miller Acts to require a bid bond, for instance. It also contains specific language intended to apportion the total available valu...
North Carolina’s Little Miller Act
North Carolina maintains a version of the federal Little Miller Act, which protects public construction projects from liens by mandating that all contractors maintain performance and payment bonds in the amount of the full value of the contract. The “Little Miller Act” version for North Carolina...
Florida’s Little Miller Act
Just like the Little Miller Acts for Georgia and Alabama, Florida’s Little Miller Act statutes aim to protect public agencies from liens and legal actions by requiring contractors to secure surety bonds. Under Florida Statutes, Title XVIII, Chapter 255, §255.05, all projects valued at more than $...
Alabama’s Little Miller Act
After covering the U.S. Miller Act and Georgia’s Little Miller Act in detail, we are moving on to Alabama’s own version of the Miller Act along with the unique provisions and requirements it lays out. Alabama’s Little Miller Act has less strict requirements than similar laws applying to federa...
Georgia’s Little Miller Act
A few weeks ago, we covered the United States Miller Act, a set of federal statutes that requires certain types of surety bonding for all construction projects of a certain value. The U.S. Miller Act is critical to the stability of publicly-funded construction projects while keeping costs and...
Understanding the Miller Act
In 1935, the Federal Government of the United States passed a statute known as the Miller Act. This act requires that all prime contractors bidding on government projects have bonding secured in the total dollar amount of the project as well as the costs of materials and labor. Under the Miller Act,...