Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 9 Sec. 3904

  • Fees: shall mean earnings due for official services, aside from salaries or per diem compensation. See
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Occupant: means a person, successor, assignee, agent, or representative entitled to use storage space under a rental agreement to the exclusion of others. See
  • Owner: means the owner, operator, lessor, or sublessor of a self- storage facility, an agent, or any other person authorized by the owner to manage the facility or to receive rent from an occupant under a rental agreement. See
  • Personal property: means movable property not affixed to land, and includes goods, merchandise, and household items. See
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Rental agreement: means a written agreement that establishes or modifies the terms, conditions, rules, or any other provision concerning the use and occupancy of storage space. See
  • Storage space: means the individual space at a self-storage facility that is rented to an occupant under a rental agreement. See

§ 3904. Lien

(a) An owner has a possessory lien upon all personal property located in a storage space for:

(1) rent;

(2) labor;

(3) late fees or other charges relating to the personal property; and

(4) expenses arising from the preservation or sale of the property pursuant to this chapter.

(b) The lien created in this section attaches as of the date an occupant stores personal property in a storage space pursuant to a rental agreement. (Added 2007, No. 183 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 2009; amended 2021, No. 168 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. July 1, 2022.)