Section 30-16-17 - Unlawful removal of effects.
30-16-17. Unlawful removal of effects.
Unlawful removal of effects consists of any person removing or causing to be removed any baggage or effects from any hotel, motel, trailer park, inn, rented dwelling or boardinghouse while there is a lien existing thereon for the proper charges due for fare or board furnished from such hotel, motel, trailer park, inn, rented dwelling or boardinghouse, and where the owner or person in possession of such baggage or effects is given actual notice of the fact of such lien, or where a notice of such lien has been conspicuously posted upon the premises adjacent to such baggage or effects, giving notice of the fact of such lien and the amount thereof.
Whoever commits unlawful removal of effects is guilty of a petty misdemeanor.