§ 38-20-203 — Agistor's lien

(1) An agistor shall have a lien upon the livestock
entrusted to its care for any amount that may be due for feeding, herding,
pasturing, keeping, ranching, or boarding such livestock, for medical care provided
to such livestock, and for all costs incurred in enforcing such lien, including
attorney fees. The provisions of this section shall not apply to stolen livestock.

(2) An agistor's lien shall be effective for the entire period during which the
livestock are held by the agistor, and if the livestock referenced in subsection (1) of
this section are sold, exchanged, or otherwise disposed of from the premises of the
lienor by anyone other than the lienor acting on his or her own behalf or the lienor's
agent, the lien created by this section shall continue and shall attach to the
proceeds received or receivable from such disposition. To the extent an agistor's
lien remains effective, such lien shall be superior to all other liens.

Legislative History

Source: L. 96: Entire part added, p. 1388, � 11, effective July 1.