1018 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



this act shall be construed so as to affect litigation arising prior to the 

 first day of January, 1912. 



LIEN LAW FOR SERVICE FEE. 



H. F. 126. 



AN ACT providing that owners or keepers of stallions shall have a lien 



upon the progeny of any such animal for the service fee therefor. 

 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: 



Section 1. The owner or keeper of a stallion kept for public services 

 who has complied with sections twenty-three hundred and forty-one-a 

 (2341-a), twenty-three hundred and forty-one-b (2341-b), twenty-three 

 hundred and forty-one-c (2341-c), and twenty-three hundred and forty-one-d 

 (2341-d), of the supplement to the code, 1907 shall have a prior lien upon 

 the progeny of such stallion to secure the amount due such owner or 

 keeper for the service of such stallion, resulting in said progeny, provided, 

 that where such owner or keeper misrepresents such stallion by false 

 pedigree no lien shall be obtained. 



Sec. 2. The lien herein provided for shall remain in force for a period 

 of six months from the birth of said progeny and shall not be enforced 

 thereafter. 



Sec. 3. The owner or keeper of such stallion may enforce the lien 

 herein provided by placing in the hands of any constable an affidavit con- 

 taining a description of the stallion and a description of the dam and the 

 time and terms of service, and said constable shall thereupon take pos- 

 session of said progeny and sell the same for non-payment of service fee 

 by giving the owner of said progeny ten (10) days' written notice, which 

 notice shall contain a copy of the affidavit and a full description of the 

 progeny to be sold, the time and hour when, and the place at which the 

 sale will take place, and posting for the same length of time in three 

 public places in the township of such owner's residence a copy of such 

 notice. If payment of the service fees and costs are not made before the 

 date thus fixed, the constable may sell at public auction to the highest 

 bidder such progeny and the owner or keeper of the stallion may be a 

 bidder at such sale. The constable shall apply the proceeds, first, in the 

 payment of the costs, second, in the payment of the service fee. Any 

 surplus arising from sale shall be returned to the owner of the progeny. 



Sec. 4. The right of the owner or keeper to foreclose, as well as the 

 amount claimed to be due, may be contested by any one interested in so 

 doing, and the proceedings may be transferred to the district court, for 

 which purpose an injunction may issue, if necessary. 



Approved April 8, A. D. 1909. 



