11-20-203.

11-20-203.

29-7-206. Sale at auction; offspring to be sold first; disposition of proceeds; remedies not exclusive.

If a female animal and her offspring are taken under a lien, the offspring shall be sold first. If the proceeds are sufficient to pay the expense incurred in taking possession under the lien, the filing fee and the costs of notices, then the female animal shall not be sold. After deducting the expense from the proceeds of any sale, the remainder of the proceeds, if any, shall be returned to the person entitled to them. The lien herein given shall not exclude any holder of a lien from abandoning it and recovering the amount due him by an action at law.

29-7-207. Selling or removing encumbered property without lienholder's consent; penalty.

Any owner of a female animal or offspring on which a lien exists under W.S. 29-7-201 through 29-7-207 who disposes of any female animal or offspring before the lien expires or is satisfied or who removes the female animal or offspring with intent to deprive a lien claimant of his lien or with intent to damage an innocent purchaser, and does so without first having obtained the consent of the lienholder to the disposition is guilty of a misdemeanor. On conviction he may be fined not more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00).

ARTICLE 3 - HOUSE TRAILERS

29-7-301. Persons entitled to lien; notice and priority thereof; removal of trailer by lienor; exception; enforcement and foreclosure of lien; "house trailer".

(a) Any person leasing or renting space for a house trailer site shall have a lien on any house trailer thereon situated for unpaid lease or rental payments and for other unpaid charges due the lessor under the terms or conditions of any lease or rental agreement. The lien shall be effective after the lessee has defaulted in payments as provided in the written rental or lease agreement. Notice of the lien shall be given by the lessor by causing notice in writing to be posted conspicuously on the mobile home. The lien provided by this section shall have priority over all other liens except a previously perfected security interest in the mobile home.

(b) At any time after thirty (30) days after notice is given the lessor may remove the house trailer from the leased or rented site and retain the lien as provided by this section. On removal, reasonable charges for the removal and storage may be assessed against the house trailer.

(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, a house trailer shall not be removed pursuant to this section if it is occupied by the lessee. In this case the lessor has a remedy at law.

(d) The lien provided by this section may be enforced and foreclosed as security agreements are enforced under W.S. 34.1-1-101 through 34.1-10-104.

(e) As used in this section "house trailer" shall be defined as in W.S. 31-5-102(a)(xv).

CHAPTER 8 - AGRICULTURAL PRODUCER'S LIENS

29-8-101. Definitions.

(a) As used in this article:  (i) "Commodity dealer" means a person who engages in a business involving or, as part of the business, participates in buying, exchanging, negotiating or soliciting the sale, resale, exchange, production or transfer of any farm product in the state of Wyoming. The term does not include:

(A) A person engaged solely in storing, shipping or handling farm products for hire;

(B) A person who buys farm products from a licensed commodity dealer;

(C) A person who does not purchase more than thirty thousand dollars ($30,000.00) worth of farm products from producers during a licensing year;

(D) A person who is the producer of farm products that the person actually plants, nurtures and harvests;

(E) A person whose trading in farm products is limited to trading in commodity futures on a recognized futures exchange; or

(F) A person who buys farm products used exclusively for the feeding of livestock and not for resale.

(ii) "Contractor" means a person who owns a farm product that is produced by a producer according to a contract;

(iii) "Farm products" means all crops, crop products, plants or portions thereof, whether or not they are cleaned, processed, treated, reconditioned, rolled, mixed or combined in any fashion. Farm products shall not mean livestock;

(iv) "Person" means an individual, trust, partnership, business trust, corporation or unincorporated association or any other legal or commercial entity;

(v) "Processor" means any person engaged in the business of processing or manufacturing any farm product and who takes possession or control of any farm product for the purpose of processing, cleaning, selling or storing it;

(vi) "Producer" means the owner, tenant or operator of land located in the state of Wyoming who has an interest in or receives all or part of the proceeds from the assignment, sale, transfer, exchange or production of farm products grown or produced on that land;

(vii) "Public warehouse" or "warehouse" means an elevator, mill, warehouse, subterminal grain warehouse, public warehouse or other structure or facility in which, for compensation, farm products are received for storage, handling, processing or shipment. The term includes facilities that commingle different lots of farm products;

(viii) "This act" means W.S. 29-8-101 through