If a person in the ordinary course of business furnishes services or materials with respect to goods subject to a lease contract, a lien upon those goods in the possession of that person given by statute or rule of law for those materials or services takes priority over any interest of the lessor or lessee under the lease contract or this chapter unless the lien is created by statute and the statute provides otherwise or unless the lien is created by rule of law and the rule of law provides otherwise.
41-02.1-37. (2A-307) Priority of liens arising by attachment or levy on, security interests in, and other claims to goods. 1. Except as otherwise provided in section 41-02.1-36, a creditor of a lessee takes subject to the lease contract. 2. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3 and in sections 41-02.1-36 and 41-02.1-38, a creditor of a lessor takes subject to the lease contract unless the creditor holds a lien that attached to the goods before the lease contract became enforceable. 3. Except as otherwise provided in sections 41-09-37, 41-09-41, and 41-09-43, a lessee takes a leasehold interest subject to a security interest held by a creditor of the lessor.