diff --git a/client/ayon_core/hosts/max/plugins/publish/validate_mesh_has_uv.py b/client/ayon_core/hosts/max/plugins/publish/validate_mesh_has_uv.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3e966acc87
--- /dev/null
+++ b/client/ayon_core/hosts/max/plugins/publish/validate_mesh_has_uv.py
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+
+import pyblish.api
+from ayon_core.hosts.max.api.action import SelectInvalidAction
+from ayon_core.pipeline.publish import (
+    ValidateMeshOrder,
+    OptionalPyblishPluginMixin,
+    PublishValidationError
+)
+from pymxs import runtime as rt
+
+
+class ValidateMeshHasUVs(pyblish.api.InstancePlugin,
+                         OptionalPyblishPluginMixin):
+
+    """Validate the current mesh has UVs.
+
+    It validates whether the current UV set has non-zero UVs and
+    at least more than the vertex count. It's not really bulletproof,
+    but a simple quick validation to check if there are likely
+    UVs for every face.
+    """
+
+    order = ValidateMeshOrder
+    hosts = ['max']
+    families = ['model']
+    label = 'Validate Mesh Has UVs'
+    actions = [SelectInvalidAction]
+    optional = True
+
+
+    @classmethod
+    def get_invalid(cls, instance):
+        invalid = [member for member in instance.data["members"]
+                   if not member.mesh.numTVerts > 0]
+        return invalid
+
+    def process(self, instance):
+        invalid = self.get_invalid(instance)
+        if invalid:
+            raise PublishValidationError(
+                title="Mesh has missing UVs",
+                message="Model meshes are required to have UVs.<br><br>"
+                        "Meshes detected with invalid or missing UVs:<br>"
+                        "{0}".format(invalid)
+            )
diff --git a/server_addon/max/server/settings/publishers.py b/server_addon/max/server/settings/publishers.py
index 5e28c1b467..6ea6a887d1 100644
--- a/server_addon/max/server/settings/publishers.py
+++ b/server_addon/max/server/settings/publishers.py
@@ -86,6 +86,10 @@ class PublishersModel(BaseSettingsModel):
         default_factory=ValidateLoadedPluginModel,
         title="Validate Loaded Plugin"
     )
+    ValidateMeshHasUVs: BasicValidateModel = SettingsField(
+        default_factory=BasicValidateModel,
+        title="Validate Mesh Has UVs"
+    )
     ExtractModelObj: BasicValidateModel = SettingsField(
         default_factory=BasicValidateModel,
         title="Extract OBJ",
@@ -134,6 +138,11 @@ DEFAULT_PUBLISH_SETTINGS = {
         "optional": True,
         "family_plugins_mapping": []
     },
+    "ValidateMeshHasUVs": {
+        "enabled": True,
+        "optional": True,
+        "active": False
+    },
     "ExtractModelObj": {
         "enabled": True,
         "optional": True,
diff --git a/server_addon/max/server/version.py b/server_addon/max/server/version.py
index 1276d0254f..0a8da88258 100644
--- a/server_addon/max/server/version.py
+++ b/server_addon/max/server/version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "0.1.5"
+__version__ = "0.1.6"