Storage of tenant's valuable property left on premises--Lien--Disposal as abandoned after waiting period.

The property of a lessee, of a total reasonable value exceeding five hundred dollars, left on leased residential premises by the lessee after the lessee has quit the premises, shall be stored by the lessor. The lessor shall have a lien on the property to the extent of the costs of handling and storing the property. After storing the property for thirty days or more the lessor may treat the property as abandoned and dispose of it. Source: SL 1976, ch 267, § 8; SL 2008, ch 227, § 2.