New York Laws
Article 9 - Enforcement of Liens on Personal Property
200 - Sale of Personal Property to Satisfy a Lien.

ยง 200. Sale of personal property to satisfy a lien. A lien against
personal property, other than the lien of a warehouse pursuant to
section 7--209 of the uniform commercial code, the lien of a carrier
pursuant to section 7--307 of the uniform commercial code, a security
interest in goods and the lien of a keeper of a hotel, apartment hotel,
inn, boarding-house or lodging-house, except an immigrant lodging-house,
if in the legal possession of the lienor, may be satisfied by the sale
of such property according to the provisions of this article.