Terms Used In Idaho Code 39-1806

  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Guest: means any person who is registered in a hotel, or who is in the hotel and intends to register, and each person in such hotel who is present in the hotel with the registrant at the registrant’s invitation. See Idaho Code 39-1801
  • Hotel: means every building or structure kept, used, maintained or advertised as an inn, hotel or public lodging house, or place where sleeping accommodations are furnished for hire to transient guests, whether with or without meals, in which more than ten (10) rooms are used for the accommodation of such guests. See Idaho Code 39-1801
  • Hotelkeeper: means the owner, operator, management company, proprietor, keeper, manager or lessee of a hotel. See Idaho Code 39-1801
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action, evidences of debt and general intangibles as defined in the uniform commercial code — secured transactions. See Idaho Code 73-114
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Property: includes both real and personal property. See Idaho Code 73-114
A hotelkeeper has a lien upon and may retain all baggage and other personal property in possession of a guest for the proper charges due to the hotel from the guest for his food, board, room rent, lodging and accommodations and for any other charges incurred by the guest and for all money and credit paid for or furnished to him and for the costs of enforcing such lien including court costs and reasonable attorney’s fees. The hotelkeeper shall have the right to retain and hold possession of such baggage and other personal property until the amount of such charges and money be fully paid, and to sell such baggage and other personal property for payment of such lien, charges and costs, including court costs and reasonable attorney’s fees in the manner provided in section 39-1807, Idaho Code. Such baggage and other personal property shall not be subject to attachment or execution until such lien and storage charge and costs of satisfying such lien are fully satisfied.