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SECTION 608
Unlawful detention of goods
General Business (GBS) CHAPTER 20, ARTICLE 29-I
§ 608. Unlawful detention of goods. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions
of section 7-209 of the uniform commercial code, no warehouseman shall
have a lien on any household goods stored by him in a particular case
where the charges demanded for storage are in excess of the charges
permitted by this article.

2. It shall constitute an unlawful detention of goods for a
warehouseman to refuse to surrender household goods stored by him for a
consumer bailor upon payment by the consumer bailor of the storage
charges permitted by this article.