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<section article="gin" article_name="Insurance" number="10-801" title_number="10" title_name="Regulation of Insurance Professions" subtitle_number="8" subtitle_name="Self-Service Storage Producers">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Authorized representative” means an independent contractor of an owner of a self–service storage facility.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Business entity” has the meaning stated in § 5–511 of this article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Designated responsible producer” means an individual who:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>holds a limited lines license under this subtitle; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>is designated by the owner as responsible for the owner’s compliance with insurance laws, rules, and regulations of the State.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Occupant” means a person or the person’s sublessee, successor, or assignee who is entitled to the use of a leased space at a self–service storage facility.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Owner” means the owner of a self–service storage facility.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Personal property” means movable property that is not affixed to land.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Personal property” includes:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>goods, wares, merchandise, household items, and furnishings;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a vehicle, as defined in § 11–176 of the Transportation Article; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>watercraft and motorized watercraft.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Self–service storage facility” means any real property that is used for renting or leasing storage space in which the occupants themselves customarily store and remove personal property on a self–service basis.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>“Self–service storage producer” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>an owner of a self–storage facility who holds a limited lines license under this subtitle; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>a designated responsible producer.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
