N.Y. Town Law § 323: Damages from other personal property

§ 323. Damages from other personal property. When any person shall be

authorized to distrain inanimate goods or chattels doing damage, or

whenever any logs, timbers, boards or plank, in rafts or otherwise, or

other personal property shall have drifted upon his lands, he shall be

entitled to the same remedies and shall proceed therein in the same

manner and with the same powers as herein provided with respect to

beasts found doing damage, so far as such provisions are applicable. He

must deliver his notice of lien to the town clerk, describing the

property, within thirty days after it lodges upon his lands, and he

shall keep the same in some convenient place without removal to a pound

until the property is sold or reclaimed. The same officer shall conduct

proceedings therein as in proceedings where beasts are found doing

damage, and all proceeds of sale shall be, in like manner, paid over and

applied, subject to the same penalties and liabilities, and with the

same force and effect. The fee of the town clerk for filing and

recording such notices of lien shall be one dollar and the charges of

the land owner claiming such lien and delivering such notice to the town

clerk, pursuant to this section, shall be at the rate of five cents for

each such stray, but shall in no event exceed the sum of fifty dollars

upon any one lien. Any lien for logs, timber, boards or planks, in

rafts or otherwise, filed herein may be discharged in the manner

provided in sections nineteen and twenty of the lien law, with reference

to the discharge of mechanics' liens, so far as such provisions are

applicable.