N.Y. General Business Law § 207: Sale of unclaimed articles and other property covered by his lien

§ 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.