Illinois Compiled Statutes 770 ILCS 45 — Labor and Storage Lien Act.

Short title

Short title. This Act may be cited as the Labor and Storage Lien Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

Every person, firm or corporation who has expended labor, skill or materials upon any chattel, or has furnished storage for said chattel, at the request of its owner, reputed owner, or authorized agent of the owner, or lawful possessor thereof, shall have a lien upon such chattel beginning on the date of the commenceme…

Storage fees; notice to lienholder of record

Storage fees; notice to lienholder of record. (a) Any person, firm, or private corporation seeking to impose fees in connection with the furnishing of storage for a vehicle in the person's, firm's, or corporation's possession must provide written notice, by certified mail, return receipt requested, to the lienholder of…

Such lien shall cease at the expiration of 60 days from the date of the delivery of such chattel to the owner thereof, or his duly authorized agent, unless the lien claimant shall within 60 days, file in the office of the recorder of the county in which the labor, skill and materials were expended on such chattel, or s…

Upon presentation of such notice to the recorder of any county, it shall be the duty of the recorder to file the same in his office and to index the same in a book to be kept by him for that purpose and called "index of liens upon chattels". The recorder shall be entitled to charge and receive from the person filing su…

The lien created by this Act shall be subject to the lien of any bona fide security interest as defined in the Uniform Commercial Code upon the same chattel recorded prior to the commencement of any lien herein created, but the lien herein created shall be in addition to, and shall not exclude, any lien now existing at…

Any lien provided for in this Act may be released and discharged by the lien claimant, or his agent, filing with the recorder of deeds a satisfaction piece, which shall be acknowledged in the same manner as provided by law for the acknowledgment of deeds, which shall also be indexed in the "index of liens upon chattels…

Liens provided for in this Act may be foreclosed by an action in the circuit court of any county in the State of Illinois, or they may be foreclosed by advertisement and sale of the chattel, subject to the lien, in the following manner: That the person, or claimant, desiring to foreclose such lien by advertisement and…

In all cases where suit is brought in the Circuit Court of any county in the State of Illinois for the purpose of foreclosing the lien herein provided, the court shall, upon entering judgment for the plaintiff, allow as a part of the costs in the suit all moneys paid, if any, for the foreclosure by advertisement and sa…

The invalidity of any section or sections of this Act shall not affect the validity of the remainder of this Act

The invalidity of any section or sections of this Act shall not affect the validity of the remainder of this Act. If for any reason section 6 of this Act shall be held to be invalid, the liens provided for in this Act may be foreclosed in the Circuit Court of any county in the State of Illinois having jurisdiction of t…