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18-48-504. Enforcement of lien in general.
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18-48-504. Enforcement of lien in general.
(a)(1) Any owner of any plant holding a lien under this section and §§ 18-48-501 — 18-48-503 may hold the farm product, and the by-products thereof, if any, for a period of thirty (30) days, unless his or her claim is sooner paid.
(2) After that time the lienholder may sell such portion of products or by-products, or both, as may be necessary to discharge the lien at the prevailing market price on the market, at private sale, and from the proceeds deduct the amount justly due him or her. This amount shall include reasonable costs for holding the sale and delivering over to the owner of the farm product the balance of the product, if any, remaining.
(3) If the farm product or by-products are gone from the lienholder's possession, he or she may enforce his or her lien before the court, in the manner provided for by law for enforcement of laborers' liens upon the product of their labor.
(b) A lien created by this section and §§ 18-48-501 — 18-48-503 shall be enforced within eight (8) months after the farm product or by-products are dried, cleaned, milled, or processed.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 18-48-504
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18-48-504. Enforcement of lien in general.
(a)(1) Any owner of any plant holding a lien under this section and §§ 18-48-501 — 18-48-503 may hold the farm product, and the by-products thereof, if any, for a period of thirty (30) days, unless his or her claim is sooner paid.
(2) After that time the lienholder may sell such portion of products or by-products, or both, as may be necessary to discharge the lien at the prevailing market price on the market, at private sale, and from the proceeds deduct the amount justly due him or her. This amount shall include reasonable costs for holding the sale and delivering over to the owner of the farm product the balance of the product, if any, remaining.
(3) If the farm product or by-products are gone from the lienholder's possession, he or she may enforce his or her lien before the court, in the manner provided for by law for enforcement of laborers' liens upon the product of their labor.
(b) A lien created by this section and §§ 18-48-501 — 18-48-503 shall be enforced within eight (8) months after the farm product or by-products are dried, cleaned, milled, or processed.
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18-48-501. Definitions.
As used in this section and §§ 18-48-502 — 18-48-504 “owner” and “operator” mean corporations, partnerships, or individuals engaged in the business of elevators, drying, cleaning, milling, or processing rice or other similar farm products.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 18-48-501
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
18-48-503. Right to lien generally.
The owner of any plant in this state engaged in the drying, cleaning, milling, or processing of rice or any other similar farm products for another shall have an absolute lien on the farm product to secure the payment for the drying, cleaning, milling, or processing of the farm product and for its storage or handling. This lien shall be superior to all other prior liens.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 18-48-503
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 18-48-503. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.