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A processor generally may not remove farm products or processed forms subject to liens from the state or from the processor’s control, except limited excess inventory. Violations are civil violations with a forfeiture of $100 to $500.
A lien applies to all colts foaled in the state to secure payment of the stallion service fee.
A person who pastures, feeds, or shelters animals under contract with, or with the owner’s consent, has a lien for the amount owed and certain related expenses.
A person who cuts or harvests hay has a lien on the hay for payment owed for personal and team services, with priority over other claims except State-reserved liens.
A person who presses hay or straw has a lien on the pressed hay or straw for the amount owed for the pressing.
A licensed hospital operator is entitled to a lien for reasonable hospital charges for treating an injured person, subject to stated exceptions.
Hospital liens must be reduced for the patient's share of litigation or recovery costs and handled on a just and equitable basis; disputes are decided by the court or by a court action.
A lien may not be perfected unless a written notice containing the name and address of the injured person, as it appears on the records of the hospital, the date of the accident, the name and location of the hospital and the name of the
A release of a related claim or judgment is not effective against the hospital lien unless the lien holder joins or releases the lien, and payments made after notice without satisfying the lien can create one-year liability to the hospital.
A municipal clerk must keep a hospital lien docket, record specified lien details when a lien claim is filed, and index the record by the injured person’s name. The clerk is entitled to a $5 filing fee from the lien claimant, and the fee must be prepaid.
This chapter shall apply only to such charges for medical or other services furnished to persons who were injured by reason of such accidents occurring on or after October 7, 1967. [PL 1973, c. 625, §57 (AMD).]
If land is leased for a mill or other buildings with rent payable, the buildings and the lessee’s interest are subject to a lien and may be attached for unpaid rent.
When land rent is unpaid, buildings on the premises are subject to a lien and attachment for the rent due.
A person who provides labor, materials, or services for certain road, path, walk, or landscape-gardening work for an owner may have a lien on the affected land to secure payment and costs.
A tannery worker who labors on leather manufacture has a lien for wages on the leather produced.
Certain workers who handle logs or lumber get a lien on the logs or lumber for amounts owed for their services and equipment use.
An officer making an attachment may pay boomage within a stated rate limit; the paid amount must be added to damages, a lien or action is not defeated by taking a note unless it is in discharge of the debt and lien, and the owner of the logs or lumber must receive court-ordered notice and may defend.
A person who drives logs or lumber by contract has a lien for the contract amount, with priority over most other claims, subject to stated exceptions.
A person who labors at cutting, peeling or hauling hemlock bark, or cutting, yarding or hauling cordwood, or cutting, peeling, yarding or hauling pulpwood or any wood used in the manufacture of pulpwood, or at cooking for persons engaged
Certain workers and suppliers get a lien on specified blocks, railroad ties, and ship knees for amounts owed, and the lien may be enforced by attachment.
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