§ 207. Sale of unclaimed articles and other property covered by his
lien. Any keeper of a hotel, motel, apartment hotel, inn,
boarding-house, rooming house or lodging-house, except an immigrant
lodging-house, who shall have a lien for fare, lodging, accommodation or
board upon any goods, baggage or other chattel property, or, who, for a
period of six months, shall have in custody any unclaimed trunk, box,
valise, package or parcel, or other chattel property, may, in the manner
provided by this section, sell the same at public auction to the highest
bidder for cash, and out of the proceeds of such sale may, in case of
lien, retain the amount of such lien and the expense of advertisement
and sale, and the expense of storage, advertisement and sale thereof.
Not less than fifteen days prior to the time of the sale, a notice of
the time and place of holding the sale, and containing a brief
description of the goods, baggage and articles to be sold, shall be
published in a newspaper published in the city or town in which such
hotel, motel, apartment hotel, inn, boarding-house, rooming-house or
lodging-house is situated; but if there be none, then in such newspaper
published nearest such city or town; if the name and address of said
guest, boarder, roomer or owner of such chattel articles and property,
appears upon the records of such keeper, such notice shall also be
mailed to said guest, boarder, roomer or owner, addressed to such
address; such notice shall be mailed in the manner aforesaid at least
fifteen days prior to the time of the sale.