NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1971 SESSION

CHAPTER 403
HOUSE BILL 382

AN ACT TO AMEND ARTICLE I OF CHAPTER 44A OF THE GENERAL STATUTES OF NORTH CAROLINA TO PROVIDE FOR A STORAGE LIEN ON PERSONAL PROPERTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Subsection (a) of G.S. 44A-2 is hereby amended by rewriting this subsection to read as follows:
"§ 44A-2.  Persons entitled to lien on personal property. — (a) Any person who tows, alters, repairs, stores, services, treats, or improves personal property in the ordinary course of his business pursuant to an express or implied contract with an owner or legal possessor of the personal property has a lien upon the property. The amount of the lien shall be the lesser of
(1)	The reasonable charges for the services and materials; or
(2)	The contract price; or
(3)	One hundred dollars ($100.00) if the lienor has dealt with a legal possessor who is not an owner.
This lien shall have priority over perfected and unperfected security interests."
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 19th day of May, 1971.