34-2,107. Priority of owner's interest in stored grain defined.

34-2,107

Chapter 34.--GRAIN AND FORAGE
Article 2.--INSPECTING, SAMPLING, STORING, WEIGHING AND GRADING GRAIN; TERMINAL AND LOCAL WAREHOUSES

      34-2,107.   Priority of owner's interest in stored grain defined.The owner of grain held in storage by a public warehouseman, as definedin K.S.A. 34-223, in this state, whether such grain is held under open storageor pursuant to the issuance of a warehouse receipt, shall have a prior rightto such grain against any other person, subject only to the payment of accruedwarehouse charges and the satisfaction of any lien or liens upon such grainand valid against the owner thereof, until the grain is either removed fromstorage by the owner or sold by the owner.

      As used in this section, the term "open storage" means the storage of grainpursuant to the issuance of a scale ticket regardless of whether the grainis retained in the warehouse or elsewhere; and the term "owner" means theholder of any warehouse receipt or receipts or of any scale ticket or ticketsfor grain held in storage by a public warehouseman.

      History:   L. 1981, ch. 180, § 1; July 1.