2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 376 - STATUTORY LIENS 376.430 Lien on radios, phonographs and other electrical or electronic devices, for repair.
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376.430 Lien on radios, phonographs and other electrical or electronic
devices, for repair.
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All persons, firms and corporations engaged in the business of repairing
radios, phonographs, combinations thereof, automatic music instruments,
refrigerators, televisions, electrical or electronic recording devices, and any and
all portable electrical or electronic instruments or appliances shall have a lien
upon such articles and appliances for the agreed or reasonable charge for
parts, supplies, accessories and labor performed in their repair, said lien to
attach upon completion of such repairs. The lien may be enforced by legal
action or as hereafter provided.
After completion of repairs, the owner shall be notified thereof by certified mail,
return receipt requested or by registered mail, and if the repaired article be not
removed and all charges paid within thirty (30) days after giving the notice, the
person, firm or corporation making such repairs may hold such repaired articles
and sell same at public or bona fide private sale to pay all agreed or
reasonable charges, including charges for storage after notice of completion of
repairs, and expenses incidental to advertisement and sale, accounting to the
owner for any excess of charges and expenses.
Before any sale of the repaired article, the person, firm or corporation making
the repairs shall notify the owner of the article of the time and place of the sale.
The notice may be served by certified mail, return receipt requested, or by
registered mail directed to the owner's last known address, or, if the owner or
his address is unknown, notice of the sale shall be published pursuant to KRS
Chapter 424.
Effective:July 15, 1988
History: Amended 1988 Ky. Acts ch. 326, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1988. -Amended 1966 Ky. Acts ch. 239, sec. 216. -- Created 1948 Ky. Acts ch. 30,
sec. 1.
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