Illinois Compiled Statutes 770 ILCS 50 — Labor and Storage Lien (Small Amount) Act.

Short title

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

Every person expending labor, services, skill or material upon or furnishing storage for any chattel at the request of or with the consent of its owner, authorized agent of the owner, or lawful possessor thereof, in the amount of $2,000 or less, shall have a lien upon such chattel beginning upon the date of commencemen…

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…

Unless the chattel is redeemed within 90 days of the completion of the expenditure of such labor, services, skill, or material or furnishing of storage, or within 90 days of the date agreed upon for redemption, the lien may be enforced by a commercially reasonable public or private sale conducted so as to maximize the…

Such sale shall be held only after giving 30 days' notice of the time and place of such sale, by publication once in some newspaper of general circulation in the city, village, or incorporated town in which such lienor expended such labor, services, skill, or material or furnished such storage, or if there be none, or…

If the chattel or chattels are not redeemed within 30 days after the publication of the notice required by Section 3 of this Act, the lienor may sell such articles at a commercially reasonable public or private sale conducted so as to maximize the net proceeds of said sale on the day and at the place specified in such…

Conformity to the requirements of this Act shall be a perpetual bar to any action against such lienor by any person for the recovery of such chattels or of the value thereof, or of any damages growing out of the failure of such person to receive such chattels. (Source: Laws 1941, vol. 1, p. 849.)

The purpose and intent of this Act is to provide an inexpensive means of enforcing liens for small amounts, and to that end the provisions of this Act shall be construed to create a lien in addition to, and shall not exclude, any lien which may exist by virtue of either the common law or any other statute of the State…