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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>57546</law_id><section_number>43-32</section_number><catch_line>Lien of keeper of livery stable, marina, etc</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>18.2-188.1</reference><reference>18.2-189</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="43">Mechanics' and Certain Other Liens</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="4">Liens of Innkeepers, Livery Stable, Garage and Marina Keepers, Mechanics and Bailees</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Every keeper of a livery stable, hangar, tie-down, or marina, and every person pasturing or keeping any horses or other animals, boats, aircraft, or harness, shall have a <span class="dictionary">lien</span> upon such horses and other animals, boats, aircraft, and harness, for the amount that may be due him for the towing, storage, recovery, keeping, supporting, and care thereof, until such amount is paid. <a id="paragraph-210835" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/43-32/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> In the case of any boat or aircraft subject to a chattel mortgage, security agreement, deed of trust, or other instrument securing money, the keeper of the marina, hangar, or tie-down shall have a <span class="dictionary">lien</span> thereon for his reasonable charges for storage under this section not to exceed $500 and for alteration and repair under &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Lien of mechanic for repairs" href="/43-33/">43-33</a> not to exceed $1,000. However, in the case of a storage <span class="dictionary">lien</span>, to obtain the priority for an amount in excess of $300, the person asserting the <span class="dictionary">lien</span> shall make a reasonable attempt to notify any secured <span class="dictionary">party</span> of record at the Department of Wildlife Resources by telephonic means and shall give written notice by certified mail, return receipt requested, to any secured <span class="dictionary">party</span> of record at the Department of Wildlife Resources within seven business days of taking <span class="dictionary">possession</span> of the boat or aircraft. If the secured <span class="dictionary">party</span> does not, within seven business days of receipt of the notice, take or refuse redelivery to it or its designee, the lienor shall be entitled to priority for the full amount of storage charges, not to exceed $500. Notwithstanding a redelivery, the watercraft shall be subject to subsection D. <a id="paragraph-210836" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/43-32/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> In addition, any person furnishing services involving the towing and recovery of a boat or aircraft shall have a <span class="dictionary">lien</span> for all normal costs incident thereto, if the person asserting the <span class="dictionary">lien</span> gives written notice within seven days of receipt of the boat or aircraft by certified mail, return receipt requested, to all secured parties of record at the Department of Wildlife Resources. <a id="paragraph-210837" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/43-32/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="D"><p><span class="prefix-number">D.</span> In addition, any keeper shall be entitled to a <span class="dictionary">lien</span> against any proceeds remaining after the satisfaction of all prior security interests or <span class="dictionary">liens</span> and may retain <span class="dictionary">possession</span> of such property until such charges are paid. <a id="paragraph-210838" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/43-32/#D"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1919, &#xA7; 6445; 1968, c. 320; 1970, c. 56; 1976, c. 77; 1977, c. 382; 1981, c. 453; 1984, c. 396; 1988, c. 120; 1990, c. 665; 1992, c. 403; 1999, c. 533; 2004, c. 215; 2005, c. 98; 2006, cc. 874, 891; 2009, c. 664; 2016, c. 397; 2020, c. 958.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
