§ 33-17-103 — Hotel keepers' lien

Any keeper of a hotel or boarding house or lodging house or
restaurant shall have a lien upon the baggage or other personal
property of any person who shall have obtained board or lodging
or both, from such keeper, for the amount due for such board or
lodging, and such keeper is hereby authorized to retain the
possession of such baggage, or personal property until said
amount is paid. If the amount due for such board or lodging is
not paid within sixty (60) days from the time the same shall
have become due and payable, any such keeper may proceed to have
such baggage or other personal property sold for the
satisfaction of his lien in the following manner: He shall give
ten (10) days prior notice of the sale of said articles by him
held under his lien, a copy of which he shall immediately
transmit, by registered letter, to the owner of the articles at
his usual place of abode if known, and he shall post said
notices of sale in three (3) conspicuous and public places in
the city, town, village or place where said keeper resides,
giving a description of the articles to be sold and the time and
place of sale, one (1) of which notices shall be posted in the
office of the hotel, lodging house, boarding house or
restaurant, if still maintained. At the time mentioned in said
notices, the said keeper may proceed to sell to the highest and
best bidder for cash, all of such personal property held under
the lien, or so much thereof as shall be necessary to pay his
claim, and the residue of the unsold property, together with the
surplus proceeds of such property sold, if any, he shall
surrender to the owner, his heirs or legal representatives, on
application therefor.