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Arizona Lien Waiver Forms

Arizona prints all four lien waiver forms in A.R.S. 33-1008. A waiver that does not substantially follow one of them is unenforceable.

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The four Arizona statutory lien waiver forms, conditional and unconditional, for progress and final payment
The four statutory forms in A.R.S. 33-1008
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Statutory text verified Sep 7, 2026 Source azleg.gov Free, no sign-up

A waiver and release releases the property for the owner, the construction lender, the contractor, and the payment bond surety only if it follows substantially one of the four forms in this section, is signed by the claimant or an authorized agent, and, for a conditional release, there is evidence of payment.

A.R.S. § 33-1008(A)

Arizona borrowed California's structure but not its warnings. There is no bold notice on the unconditional forms here. The only thing telling a sub that they are signing away rights they have not been paid for is the word Unconditional in the title.

The four forms below are the statute's text, printed the way the Legislature prints it, with the field labels in parentheses under each blank.

Filling them in is the tedious part, and it is the part APARBooks does for you. See how the blanks fill themselves from the payment you already recorded.

Arizona

Two questions get you to the right form

Has the money actually cleared? And is this a progress payment or the last one? That's the whole decision.

Conditional / not paid yet
Unconditional / paid
Progress
Conditional waiver and release on progress payment A.R.S. § 33-1008(D)(1) You're handed a check for a draw. Sign this. It takes effect only once the check clears. Unconditional waiver and release on progress payment A.R.S. § 33-1008(D)(2) Only after the draw has cleared. Arizona puts no warning box on this one, so read the title.
Final
Conditional waiver and release on final payment A.R.S. § 33-1008(D)(3) Closeout check in hand, not yet cleared. Has a line for disputed claims. Unconditional waiver and release on final payment A.R.S. § 33-1008(D)(4) Gives up every lien and bond right on the job. Sign only after final payment clears.

Conditional waiver and release on progress payment

A.R.S. § 33-1008(D)(1)
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Use it when: you're asked to sign in exchange for a progress payment and you have not been paid yet, or you were handed a single-payee or joint-payee check.
Conditional waiver and release on progress payment

Project: ______________________

Job No.: ______________________

On receipt by the undersigned of a check from _________________

(maker of check)

in the sum of $______________ payable to _______________________

(amount of check) (payee or payees of check)

and when the check has been properly endorsed and has been paid by the bank on which it is drawn, this document becomes effective to release any mechanic's lien, any state or federal statutory bond right, any private bond right, any claim for payment and any rights under any similar ordinance, rule or statute related to claim or payment rights for persons in the undersigned's position that the undersigned has on the job of ______________________________________________________________

(owner)

located at __________________________________ to the following

(job description)

extent. This release covers a progress payment for all labor, services, equipment or materials furnished to the jobsite or to ______________________________________________________________,

(person with whom undersigned contracted)

through _______________ only and does not cover any retention,

(date)

pending modifications and changes or items furnished after that date. Before any recipient of this document relies on it, that person should verify evidence of payment to the undersigned.

The undersigned warrants that he either has already paid or will use the monies he receives from this progress payment to promptly pay in full all of his laborers, subcontractors, materialmen and suppliers for all work, materials, equipment or services provided for or to the above referenced project up to the date of this waiver.

Date: ____________________ _________________________________

(Company name)

By: ____________________________

(Signature)

_________________________________

(Title)

Scroll inside the form to read it all, or download the PDF above.

Unconditional waiver and release on progress payment

A.R.S. § 33-1008(D)(2)
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Use it when: the progress payment is already in your account. Arizona does not print a bold notice on its unconditional forms the way California and Texas do, so nothing on the page warns you.
Unconditional waiver and release on progress payment

Project: _________________

Job No.: _________________

The undersigned has been paid and has received a progress payment in the sum of $_____________ for all labor, services, equipment or material furnished to the jobsite or to ______________________________________________________________

(person with whom undersigned contracted)

on the job of ________________________________________________

(owner)

located at ___________________________________________________

(job description)

and does hereby release any mechanic's lien, any state or federal statutory bond right, any private bond right, any claim for payment and any rights under any similar ordinance, rule or statute related to claim or payment rights for persons in the undersigned's position that the undersigned has on the above referenced project to the following extent. This release covers a progress payment for all labor, services, equipment or materials furnished to the jobsite or to _______________________________________________________________

(person with whom undersigned contracted)

through ________________ only and does not cover any retention,

(date)

pending modifications and changes or items furnished after that date.

The undersigned warrants that he either has already paid or will use the monies he receives from this progress payment to promptly pay in full all of his laborers, subcontractors, materialmen and suppliers for all work, materials, equipment or services provided for or to the above referenced project up to the date of this waiver.

Dated: ____________________ ________________________________

(Company name)

By: ____________________________

(Signature)

________________________________

(Title)

(Each unconditional waiver shall contain the following language, in type at least as large as the largest type otherwise on the document:)

Notice: This document waives rights unconditionally and states that you have been paid for giving up those rights. This document is enforceable against you if you sign it, even if you have not been paid. If you have not been paid, use a conditional release form.

Scroll inside the form to read it all, or download the PDF above.

Conditional waiver and release on final payment

A.R.S. § 33-1008(D)(3)
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Use it when: you have the final check but it hasn't cleared. Note the disputed-claims line: it is the only place on the four forms where you can carve out an amount you are still fighting over.
Conditional waiver and release on final payment

Project: _______________

Job No.: _______________

On receipt by the undersigned of a check from ________________

(maker of check)

in the sum of $_________________ payable to ____________________

(amount of check) (payee or payees of check)

and when the check has been properly endorsed and has been paid by the bank on which it is drawn, this document becomes effective to release any mechanic's lien, any state or federal statutory bond right, any private bond right, any claim for payment and any rights under any similar ordinance, rule or statute related to claim or payment rights for persons in the undersigned's position, the undersigned has on the job of ___________________ located at ______________________________.

(owner) (job description)

This release covers the final payment to the undersigned for all labor, services, equipment or materials furnished to the jobsite or to _________________________________________________________,

(person with whom undersigned contracted)

except for disputed claims in the amount of $__________. Before any recipient of this document relies on it, the person should verify evidence of payment to the undersigned.

The undersigned warrants that he either has already paid or will use the monies he receives from this final payment to promptly pay in full all his laborers, subcontractors, materialmen and suppliers for all work, materials, equipment or services provided for or to the above referenced project up to the date of this waiver.

Dated: ____________________ _________________________________

(Company name)

By: _____________________________

(Signature)

_________________________________

(Title)

Scroll inside the form to read it all, or download the PDF above.

Unconditional waiver and release on final payment

A.R.S. § 33-1008(D)(4)
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Use it when: final payment has cleared. This is the strongest of the four.
Unconditional waiver and release on final payment

Project: _______________

Job No.: _______________

The undersigned has been paid in full for all labor, services, equipment or material furnished to the jobsite or to _______________________________________________________________,

(person with whom undersigned contracted)

on the job of _____________ located at _______________________

(owner) (job description)

and does hereby waive and release any right to mechanic's lien, any state or federal statutory bond right, any private bond right, any claim for payment and any rights under any similar ordinance, rule or statute related to claim or payment rights for persons in the undersigned's position, except for disputed claims for extra work in the amount of $ ___________.

The undersigned warrants that he either has already paid or will use the monies he receives from this final payment to promptly pay in full all of his laborers, subcontractors, materialmen and suppliers for all work, materials, equipment or services provided for or to the above referenced project.

Dated: ____________________ _________________________________

(Company name)

By: ____________________________

(Signature)

_________________________________

(Title)

(Each unconditional waiver shall contain the following language in type at least as large as the largest type otherwise on the document:)

Notice:

This document waives rights unconditionally and states that you have been paid for giving up those rights. This document is enforceable against you if you sign it, even if you have not been paid. If you have not been paid, use a conditional release form.

Scroll inside the form to read it all, or download the PDF above.
Arizona

You already typed all of this once

Every blank on these four forms is data you entered when you set up the project, signed the subcontract, or cut the check. APARBooks fills them from those records instead of asking you again.

1

Record the payment

Pay a subcontractor bill, submit a pay application, or write the check. Nothing extra to enter.

2

APARBooks picks the form

Conditional while the check is still outstanding, unconditional once it clears. Progress or final off where you are in the billing cycle.

3

The blanks fill themselves

Owner, job description, check maker and amount all come off the project, the subcontract, and the payment you just recorded.

4

Sign and file

E-signature in the portal, no print and scan. The signed waiver is stored on the project with the rest of the pay application package.

On the Arizona form, that means:

Blank on the form
Filled from
Project  /  Job No.
The project the bill is coded to
Maker of check
The account the check is drawn on
Amount of check  /  payee of check
The payment you just recorded
Job of  (owner)
The owner on the project record
Located at  (job description)
The job address and scope on the project
Person with whom undersigned contracted
The subcontract the bill sits under
Through  (date)
The end of the billing period you are paying
Company name  /  By  /  Title
The vendor record, signed with the built-in e-signature

See how the automation works

Four rules that decide whether an Arizona waiver holds

The form is the easy part. These are the subsections that void one.

§ 33-1008(A)

An owner or contractor cannot waive someone else's claim

An owner or contractor may not waive or impair the claims or liens of other persons by any term of their contract or otherwise, except by those persons' own written consent. Any contract term that purports to do so is void. Even written consent is unenforceable until that claimant signs and delivers a waiver and release of their own.

Contract term is void
§ 33-1008(B)

A side letter or an email waives nothing

No oral or written statement purporting to waive, release, or adversely affect a claim is enforceable, and none creates an estoppel, unless it is a waiver and release under this section or the claimant has actually been paid in full for the claim.

§ 33-1008(A)

Evidence of payment is defined the same way California defines it

A conditional release only works if there is evidence of payment, and the statute names two kinds: the claimant's endorsement on a single or joint payee check that the bank has paid, or written acknowledgment of payment by the claimant. A photocopy of an uncashed check is neither.

§ 33-1008(C)

Settlements sit outside the form rules, if they say so

This section does not reach an accord and satisfaction of a bona fide dispute, or a settlement of an action pending in court, provided the accord or the settlement makes specific reference to the mechanic's lien or bond claims. That proviso matters: a general release that never mentions the lien does not clear it.

Must reference the lien

Arizona lien waiver FAQ

Still stuck? Email us at support@aparbooks.com.

Only if you are going to exchange a waiver at all. :State does not make you swap waivers for payment. What it does is decide what a waiver has to look like once you do. Most GCs, owners, and construction lenders ask for them anyway, and the moment someone asks, this is the form that has to be used. Something typed up from scratch usually is not worth anything.

Before, using the conditional version. It only takes effect once the check clears, so nobody gives anything up early and you are still covered if the check bounces. The unconditional version is for after the money has actually landed in their account. If someone hands you an unconditional form along with the check, they have it backwards.

They can still put a lien on the job, and the waiver you got from your sub does not stop them. You can only sign away your own rights, not somebody else's. If your sub buys material on account from a supply house, that supply house has its own claim until it gets paid. That is why GCs collect waivers down the chain, not just from the people they write checks to.

Do not ask for one in that situation, and do not lean on it if you get one. An unconditional waiver says the money already arrived. If it has not, the sub has signed away rights for a payment they never received, and that is a fight you do not want on your job. Ask for the conditional version with the check, and the unconditional one after it clears.

Nothing was released. That is the whole point of the conditional version: it only takes effect when the bank actually pays the check. If the check bounces, the lien rights are still there. It is also why a photocopy of an uncashed check is not proof of payment. What counts is the cleared check or written confirmation from the claimant that the money arrived.

Generate them from the payment instead of typing them. Everything the form asks for, who is being paid, the job, the owner, the check and the amount, is already in your books the moment you cut the check. APARBooks builds the right waiver for each sub off that payment, sends it out for signature, and shows you which ones came back. An afternoon of copy and paste turns into part of running the draw.

Yes. The forms call for a signature, not for ink, and electronic signatures are accepted on them. Printing, signing, scanning, and emailing thirty of these is habit, not a requirement. APARBooks has e-signature built in, so a sub can sign from a phone and the signed copy files itself against the project. If an owner or lender insists on a wet signature, that is their own condition, not something the law asks for.

Fill in the blanks, that is fine. Do not rewrite the paragraphs. :State only accepts these forms, and one that somebody edited can end up worth nothing to whoever was counting on it. If you need to carve something out, use the exceptions the form already gives you rather than adding language of your own.

:State does not require it. A signature from the claimant, or from someone authorized to sign for them, is enough. Wyoming and Mississippi are the two states that make you notarize a lien waiver. Plenty of owners and lenders ask for notarization anyway, but that is a condition in their contract, not something the law is asking for.

On a progress payment, no. The progress forms cover work through a date you write on the form and expressly leave out retention, pending changes, and anything furnished after that date. The final payment forms do let you write in a disputed amount to carve out, which is a line the progress forms do not give you. If a draw is in dispute, the answer is not to sign.

Arizona never put one there. California and Texas both print a bold warning at the top of an unconditional waiver telling the signer it binds them even if they were never paid. Arizona copied the structure of those forms but not the warning. The only thing on the page telling a sub what they are about to do is the word Unconditional in the title, so read the title.

Yes. The wording is :State law itself, and laws are not copyrighted, so anyone can print these, fill them in, and use them. No sign-up and no email address. If you would rather not fill them in by hand at all, APARBooks generates them from the payment you already recorded.

Official sources
A.R.S. § 33-1008 — Waiver of lien (Arizona State Legislature) A.R.S. Title 33, Chapter 7 — Mechanics and materialmen liens

The form text on this page is A.R.S. § 33-1008(D), copied from the Arizona State Legislature and verified on September 7, 2026, and it is laid out the way the Legislature prints it, with the field labels in parentheses under each blank. The Registrar of Contractors does not publish its own version of these forms. APARBooks is construction accounting software, not a law firm, and nothing here is legal advice. Confirm against the current statute before you rely on a form, and talk to an Arizona construction attorney about anything contested.

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