Mariners Bay Co. v. Department of Motor Vehicles

*810Opinion

ORTEGA, J.

We conclude plaintiffs may not enforce possessory vessel liens outside the exclusive provisions of the “Boaters Lien Law” (Harb. & Nav. Code, §§ 500-509).1 We affirm the judgment (order of dismissal).

Facts

Plaintiffs Mariners Bay Company and Marina International Properties, Ltd., are the lessors of several thousand boat slips in Marina del Rey. When plaintiffs obtain unlawful detainer judgments (“a rented boat slip in a marina is ‘real property’ for purposes of unlawful detainer” (Smith v. Municipal Court (1988) 202 Cal.App.3d 685, 686 [245 Cal.Rptr. 300])), plaintiffs often…