33-17-103. Hotel keepers' lien.

Any keeper of a hotel or boarding house or lodging house or restaurant shall have a lien upon the baggage or other personal property of any person who shall have obtained board or lodging or both, from such keeper, for the amount due for such board or lodging, and such keeper is hereby authorized to retain the possession of such baggage, or personal property until said amount is paid. If the amount due for such board or lodging is not paid within sixty (60) days from the time the same shall have become due and payable, any such keeper may proceed to have such baggage or other personal property sold for the satisfaction of his lien in the following manner: He shall give ten (10) days prior notice of the sale of said articles by him held under his lien, a copy of which he shall immediately transmit, by registered letter, to the owner of the articles at his usual place of abode if known, and he shall post said notices of sale in three (3) conspicuous and public places in the city, town, village or place where said keeper resides, giving a description of the articles to be sold and the time and place of sale, one (1) of which notices shall be posted in the office of the hotel, lodging house, boarding house or restaurant, if still maintained. At the time mentioned in said notices, the said keeper may proceed to sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, all of such personal property held under the lien, or so much thereof as shall be necessary to pay his claim, and the residue of the unsold property, together with the surplus proceeds of such property sold, if any, he shall surrender to the owner, his heirs or legal representatives, on application therefor.