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Timestamp: 2017-10-20 16:07:34
Document Index: 111991204

Matched Legal Cases: ['§38', '§38', '§38', '§38', '§38', '§38', '§38', '§38', '§38']

Chapter 38. Liens. Article 14. Self-Service Storage Lien Act.
Â§38-14-1. Short title. This article may be known as the "Self-Service Storage Lien Act".
Â§38-14-2. Definitions. As used in this article, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:
Â§38-14-3. Self-service storage lien.
Â§38-14-4. Late fees. The owner may charge a late fee not to exceed ten dollars or ten percent of the monthly rental fee, whichever is greater, for each month the occupant defaults for a period of fifteen days or more.
Â§38-14-5. Enforcement of self-service storage lien.
(1) If an occupant is in default under a rental agreement and the owner wishes to enforce the lien, the owner shall notify the occupant of the default in a form as prescribed by subsection (c) of this section. If the default is not cured within sixty days after the service of the notice, the owner may:
(A)Proceed to enforce the self-service storage lien by selling the contents of the occupant's unit at public auction, for cash, and apply the proceeds to satisfaction of the self-service storage lien, with the surplus, if any, to be disbursed as provided in this article; or
(B)Destroy the personal property if he or she can demonstrate by photographs or other images and affidavit of a knowledgeable and credible person that the personal property lacks a value sufficient to cover the reasonable expense of a public auction plus the amount of the self-service storage lien;
(2) In the case of personal property having a fair market value in excess of one thousand dollars and against which a secured party has filed a financing statement in the name of the occupant with the secretary of state or in the office of the clerk of the county commission in the county where the self-service storage facility is located or in the county in West Virginia shown as the last known address of the occupant or if the personal property is a motor vehicle or watercraft required by the laws of this state to be registered and the division of motor vehicles shows a lien on the certificate of title, the owner shall notify the lienholder of record, by certified mail, at the address on the financing statement or certificate of title, of the time and place of the proposed public auction, at least thirty days prior to the auction. At any time prior to the public sale or destruction, a secured party may pay the reasonable fees and costs due to the person possessing the self-service storage lien and take possession of the personal property which is subject to the lien;
(d) At any time prior to the public auction or destruction of the personal property pursuant to this section the occupant may pay the full amount necessary to satisfy the self-service storage lien. A lienholder of record may pay an amount not to exceed one hundred seventy-five dollars for incurred rental fees, late fees and safekeeping of the property in addition to an amount not to exceed seventy-five dollars for notice and redeem only the personal property subject to the lien.
(1) Any owner who conducts a public auction pursuant to this section may satisfy the self-service storage lien from the proceeds of the public auction and hold the balance, if any, for delivery on demand to the occupant. If an owner complies with the provisions of this article, his or her liability to the occupant is limited to the net proceeds less the amount of the self-service storage lien and costs received at the public auction;
(2) If an owner conducts a public auction pursuant to this section, the ownerÃ¯Â¿Â½s liability to a lienholder is limited to the proceeds received at the public auction, less the amount of the self-service storage lien and costs. If an owner complies with the provisions of this article, the owner is not liable to a lienholder who fails to claim an interest in the net proceeds within thirty days after the public auction.
Â§38-14-6. Other legal remedies may be used. The provisions of this article do not preempt or limit the owner's use of any additional remedy otherwise allowed by law.
Â§38-14-7. Duties; care, custody and control of property.
Â§38-14-8. Savings clause. All rental agreements entered into prior to the first day of July, two thousand one, which have not been extended or renewed after that date remain valid and may be enforced or terminated in accordance with their terms or as permitted by any other statute or law of this state.
Â§38-14-9. Effective date and application of article. The provisions of this article apply to all rental agreements entered into or extended or renewed after the first day of July, two thousand one.