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Timestamp: 2018-04-25 00:48:47
Document Index: 365073291

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 1', '§ 2', '§ 3', '§ 4', '§ 5', '§ 6', '§ 3137', '§ 10345', '§ 579', '§1']

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Iowa Lien Law.pdf
This Act shall be known as the “Iowa Self-Service Storage Facility Lien Act”.
84 Acts, ch 1130, § 1
1. “Last known address” means that address provided by the occupant in the latest rental agreement, or the address provided by the occupant by certified mail in a subsequent written notice of a change of address.
2. “Occupant” means a person, in privity with the owner, entitled to the use to the exclusion of others of the storage space at a self-service storage facility pursuant to privity with the owner.
3. “Owner” means the owner, operator, lessor, or sublessor of a self-service storage facility, the agent, or any other person authorized by the owner to manage the facility, or to receive rent from an occupant under a rental agreement.
4. “Personal property” means movable property not affixed to land, and includes, but is not limited to goods, merchandise, and household items.
5. “Possessory lien” means a lien on a personal property that is valid only while the property is in the possession of the person asserting the lien or an agent of the person.
6. “Rental agreement” means an agreement or lease, written or oral, between the owner and occupant, that establishes or modifies the terms, conditions, rules, or any other provisions concerning the use and occupancy of a self-service storage facility.
7. “Self-service storage facility” means real property designed and used for the purpose of renting or leasing individual storage space to occupants who are to have access to the space for the purpose of storing personal property. If an owner issues a warehouse receipt, bill of lading, or other document of title for the personal property stored, the owner and the occupant are subject to chapter 554, article 7 and this chapter does not apply.
84 Acts, ch 1130, § 2
84 Acts, ch 1130, § 3
An owner’s lien for a claim which has become due may be satisfied as follows:
a. An itemized statement of the owner’s claim showing the amount due at the time of the notice and the date when the amount became due.
c. A statement that the occupant is denied access to the personal property, if a denial is permitted under the rental agreement. The statement shall provide the name, street address, and telephone number of the owner, or the owner’s designated agent, whom the occupant may contact to respond to this notice.
a. A brief and general description of the personal property reasonably adequate to permit its identification as provided for in subsection 1, paragraph “b”.
7. A purchaser in good faith of the personal property sold to satisfy the lien takes the property free of any rights of persons against whom the lien was valid, despite noncompliance by the owner with the requirements of this section. The purchaser shall apply for a new title to a vehicle by the procedures outlined in section 321.47. For all other property which has a written title, the purchaser shall follow the applicable procedures for the property for the transfer of title by operation of law.
84 Acts, ch 1130, § 4
84 Acts, ch 1130, § 5
An occupant shall not use a self-service storage facility for residential purposes. A self-service storage facility is not a warehouse as defined in chapter 554.
84 Acts, ch 1130, § 6
579.1 Nature of liens.
1. Livery and feed stable keepers, herders, feeders, or keepers of stock shall have a lien on all property coming into their hands, as such, for their charges and the expense of keeping, but such lien shall be subject to chapter 579A and all prior liens of record.
2. Places for the storage of motor vehicles, boats, and boat engines and boat motors shall have a lien on all property coming into their hands, as such, for their charges and the expense of keeping, but such lien shall be subject to all prior liens of record.
[C97, § 3137; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 10345; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 579.1]
95 Acts, ch 59, §1
Bond to release, chapter 584