COMPILED CODE - Iowa Legislature - State of Iowa

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Tit. XXIV, Ch. 4. HOTEL AND INN KEEPERS' LIEN. § 6525.
24 shall be that of a depository for hire ; and in no event shall liability ex-
25 ceed two hundred fifty dollars for each trunk and its contents, one hun-
26 dred fifty dollars for each valise and its contents, fifty dollars for each
27 box, bundle or package and its contents and not exceeding one hundred
28 dollars for any and all other miscellaneous effects of each guest ; and
29 provided further, that, in case baggage or other personal property of a
30 guest has remained in any hotel, inn, eating house or steamboat forty-
31 eight hours after the guest has paid his bill and registered off and the
32 relation of keeper and guest has ceased the keeper may hold such bag-
33 gage or property at the risk of the owner, and in case baggage or other
34 property has been forwarded to any hotel, inn, eating house or steam-
35 boat and the owner of such baggage or property does not within f orty-
36 eight hours become a guest, the keeper of such hotel, inn, eating house
37 or steamboat after such time may hold such baggage or property at
38 the risk of the owner.
39 Hotel, inn, rooming house or eating house keepers shall have a
40 lien upon, and may take and retain possession of, all baggage and
41 other property belonging to or under the control of their guests or
42 patrons, which may be in such hotel, inn, rooming house or eating
43 house, for the value of their accommodations and keep, and for all
44 money paid for or advanced to, and for such extras and other things
45 as shall be furnished such guest or patron, and such property so
46 retained shall not be exempt from attachment or execution to the
47 amount of the reasonable charges of such hotel, inn, rooming house
48 or eating house keeper, against such guest or patron, and the costs of
49 enforcing the lien thereon. The innkeeper or hotel keeper shall retain
50 such baggage and other property upon which he has a lien for a period
51 of ninety days, at the expiration of which time, if such lien is not
52 satisfied, he may sell such baggage and other property at public auc-
53 tion after giving ten days' notice of the time and place of sale in a
54 newspaper of general circulation in the county where the inn or hotel
55 is situated, and also by mailing a copy of such notice addressed to said
56 guest or boarder at the place of residence registered by him in the
57 register of such inn or hotel. After satisfying the lien and any costs
58 that may accrue, any residue remaining shall, on demand within six
59 months, be paid to such guest or boarder, and if not so demanded
60 within six months from date of such sale, such residue shall be depos-
61 ited by such innkeeper or hotel keeper with the treasurer of the county
62 in which the inn or hotel is situated, together with a statement of the
63 innkeeper's claim and the costs of enforcing same, a copy of the pub-
64 lished notice, and the amounts received for the goods sold at said sale ;
65 said residue shall by said county treasurer be credited to the general
66 revenue fund of said county, subject to a right of said guest or board-
67 er, or his representative, to reclaim at any time within three years of
68 the date of deposit with the said treasurer.
• [C, '97, § 3138; S., '13, § 3138; 39 G. A., ch. 100, § 1.]