TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES
DIVISION 5: BUSINESS REGULATION
§ 51545. Lien on Personal Property; Sale After 30 Days After Default. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), every hotel, inn, motel, or lodging house proprietor or proprietors, or person who lets rooms to lodgers for hire, shall have a lien upon all property belonging to his patron, guest, boarder or tenant brought within the hotel, inn, motel, lodging house or rooms for the amount that may be due from any such person for lodging, rent or for money paid or advanced to him, and for such other extras as are furnished at his request, and is authorized to retain possession of such property until the innkeeper’s lien and the cost of enforcing it are satisfied. (b) Tools or implements necessary to carry on the trade or employment of, and required work uniforms belonging to, such patron, guest, boarder or tenant are exempt from the provisions of this section. (c) At any time after 30 days after default made in the payment of a debt secured by a lien upon personal property as in this section provided, such lien may be foreclosed by sale of the property or some part thereof as provided in 4 CMC § 51547. Source: PL 15-117, § 2(51445), modified. Commission Comment: The Commission modified this section pursuant to 1 CMC § 3806(g) by changing "§ 51546" to "4 CMC § 51547" to correct a manifest error.