LIENS
(770 ILCS 40/) Innkeepers Lien Act.
(770 ILCS 40/0.01) (from Ch. 82, par. 56.9)
Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Innkeepers Lien Act.
(Source: P.A. 86‑1324.)
(770 ILCS 40/48) (from Ch. 82, par. 57)
Sec. 48. Hotel, inn and boarding house keepers shall
have a lien upon the baggage and other valuables of their guests or
boarders brought into such hotel, inn or boarding house by such guests
or boarders, for the proper charges due from such guests or boarders
for their accommodations, board and lodgings and such extras as are
furnished at their request.
(Source: R.S. 1874, p. 665.)
(770 ILCS 40/49) (from Ch. 82, par. 58)
Sec. 49. Stable keepers and any persons shall have a
lien upon the horses, carriages and harness kept by them for the proper
charges due for the keeping thereof and expenses bestowed thereon at
the request of the owner, or the person having the possession thereof.
(Source: R.S. 1874, p. 665.)
(770 ILCS 40/50) (from Ch. 82, par. 59)
Sec. 50. Agisters and persons keeping, yarding,
feeding or pasturing domestic animals, shall have a lien upon the
animals agistered, kept, yarded or fed, for the proper charges due for
the agisting, keeping, yarding or feeding thereof.
(Source: R.S. 1874, p. 665.)
(770 ILCS 40/50a) (from Ch. 82, par. 59a)
Sec. 50a. Every person who, as owner or lessee of
any threshing machine, clover huller, corn sheller or hay baler,
threshes grain or seed, hulls clover, shells corn or presses hay or
straw at the request of the owner, reputed owner, authorized agent of
the owner or lawful possessor of such crops shall have a lien upon such
crops, beginning at the date of the commencement of such threshing,
hulling, shelling or baling, for the agreed contract price of the job,
or, in the absence of a contract price, for the reasonable value of the
services or labor furnished. Such lien shall run for a period of (8)
eight months after the completion of such services or labor
notwithstanding the fact that the possession of the crops has been
surrendered to its owner or lawful possessor, provided that such lien
shall not be valid and enforceable against a purchaser of said crops
from the owner or lawful possessor thereof unless the lien holder
shall, previous to or at the time of making final settlement for such
crops by such purchaser, serve upon such purchaser a notice in writing
of the existence of such lien.
(Source: Laws 1931, p. 667.)