COMPILED CODE - Iowa Legislature - State of Iowa

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§| 6522-6525. HOTEL AND INN KEEPERS' LIEN. Tit. XXIV, Ch. 4.
TITLE XXIV.
CERTAIN SPECIAL LIENS.
CHAPTER 2.
MECHANIC'S LIEN.
SECTION 6522. Limitation on action.
1 Actions to enforce a mechanic's lien may be brought within two
2 years from the expiration of the sixty or ninety days, as the case may
3 be, for filing the claim as provided in the law relative to mechanics'
4 liens and not afterwards.
[C, '51, § 984 ; R., '60, § 1865 ; C, '73, § 2529 ; C, '97, § 3447 ;
S., '13, § 3447 ; 37 G. A., ch. 63, § 1 ; 39 G. A., ch. 27, § 1.]
CHAPTER 4.
HOTEL AND INN KEEPERS' LIEN.
SECTION 6525. Hotel and inn keepers—liability—lien—satisfaction
by sale—proceeds—deposit of surplus.
1 Keepers of hotels, inns, eating houses and steamboat owners, who
2 constantly have in their hotel, inn, eating house or steamboat, a metal
3 safe, or vault in good order and fit for the custody of money, jewelry,
4 articles of gold or silver manufacture, precious stones, personal orna-
5 ments, documents of all kinds, and other similar property, and who
6 keeps on the door of the sleeping rooms used by guests suitable locks
7 or bolts and proper fastenings on the transoms and windows of said
8 rooms, and keeps posted up in a conspicuous place in the office or other
9 public room in the guest's apartment therein, printed notices, stating
10 that such places for safe deposit are provided for the use and accom-
11 modation of the inmates thereof, shall not be liable for the loss or in-
12 jury suffered by any guest, in an amount to exceed one hundred dollars,
13 unless said guest has offered to deliver such valuables to said hotel, inn,
14 eating house, or steamboat keeper for custody in such metal safe or
15 vault, and said hotel, inn, eating house, or steamboat keeper has
16 omitted or refused to take and deposit same in such safe or vault and
17 give such guest a receipt therefor. Provided, however, that the keeper
18 of any hotel, inn, eating house, or steamboat shall not be required to
19 receive from any one guest for deposit in such safe or vault any prop-
20 erty exceeding the market value of five hundred dollars.
21 The liability of the keeper of any hotel, inn, eating house or steam-
22 boat, for loss of or injury to personal property placed by his guests
23 under his care, other than that described in the preceding paragraph,