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 boarding house 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 boarding house, 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.
History: 1953 Comp., § 40A-16-17, enacted by Laws 1963, ch. 303, § 16-17.
Cross references. — For landlord's lien, see 48-3-5 NMSA 1978.
For enforcement of liens, see 48-3-13, 48-3-14 NMSA 1978.
For lien in favor of owners or operators of hotels, rooming houses, apartment houses, rental dwellings, auto courts, trailer courts or campgrounds, priority and enforcement of same and penalty for removal of property affected thereby, see 48-3-16 to 48-3-18 NMSA 1978.
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