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2025 Utah Code
Title 38 - Liens
Chapter 2 - Miscellaneous Liens
Section 2 - Liens of hotels and boardinghouse keepers.
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UT Code § 38-2-2 (2025)
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Effective 5/1/2024
38-2-2. Liens of hotels and boardinghouse keepers.
Every innkeeper, hotel keeper, boardinghouse keeper, or lodginghouse keeper shall have a lien on the baggage and other property in and about such inn belonging to or under control of guests or boarders for the proper charges due for their accommodation, board and lodging, for money paid for or advanced to them, and for such other extras as are furnished at their request. The innkeeper, hotel keeper, boardinghouse keeper, or lodginghouse keeper may detain such baggage and other property until the amount of such charge is paid, and the baggage and other property shall not be exempt from attachment or execution until the hotel or boardinghouse keeper's lien and the costs of enforcing it are satisfied.
Amended by Chapter 365, 2024 General Session
38-2-2. Liens of hotels and boardinghouse keepers.
Every innkeeper, hotel keeper, boardinghouse keeper, or lodginghouse keeper shall have a lien on the baggage and other property in and about such inn belonging to or under control of guests or boarders for the proper charges due for their accommodation, board and lodging, for money paid for or advanced to them, and for such other extras as are furnished at their request. The innkeeper, hotel keeper, boardinghouse keeper, or lodginghouse keeper may detain such baggage and other property until the amount of such charge is paid, and the baggage and other property shall not be exempt from attachment or execution until the hotel or boardinghouse keeper's lien and the costs of enforcing it are satisfied.
Amended by Chapter 365, 2024 General Session
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