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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="18-501" title_number="18" title_name="Bills of Lading and Warehouse Receipts -- Criminal Provisions" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Maryland Self-Service Storage Act">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Default” means the failure to perform on time any obligation or duty set forth in the rental agreement.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Last known address” means that address or electronic mail address provided by the occupant in the rental agreement or the address or electronic mail address provided by the occupant in a subsequent written notice of a change of address.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Leased space” means the individual storage space at the self–service facility which is rented to an occupant pursuant to a rental agreement.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Occupant” means a person, a sublessee, successor, or assign, entitled to the use of a leased space at a self–service storage facility under a rental agreement.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Operator” means the owner, operator, lessor, or sublessor of a self–service storage facility, an agent, or any other person authorized to manage the facility.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Operator” does not include a warehouseman, unless the operator issues a warehouse receipt, bill of lading, or other document of title for the personal property stored.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Personal property” means movable property, not affixed to land.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Personal property” includes goods, wares, merchandise, motor vehicles, watercraft, and household items and furnishings.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Rental agreement” means any written or electronic agreement that establishes or modifies the terms, conditions, or rules concerning the use and occupancy of a self–service storage facility.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>“Self–service storage facility” means any real property used for renting or leasing individual storage spaces in which the occupants themselves customarily store and remove their own personal property on a “self–service” basis.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>“Verified mail” means any method of mailing that is offered by the United States Postal Service or private delivery service that provides evidence of mailing.</text>
  </level>
</section>
