7. Launderers or dyers in possession of articles deposited in their custody to be washed, ironed, cleaned or dyed, subject to remuneration, may, if the articles are not claimed within the twelve months following their deposit, cause them to be sold by an auctioneer. No such sale may be made except on the date fixed in a notice published in a French newspaper and in an English newspaper of the locality, or, in case there be no French newspaper or no English newspaper published in such locality, in the French newspaper or the English newspaper, as the case may be, published in the nearest place thereto. An interval of two weeks must elapse between the date of the notice and that of the sale.
R. S. 1964, c. 316, s. 7.