1121.621 SELF-SERVICE STORAGE FACILITY.

   (a)   “Self-service storage facility” shall be defined as any real property that is designed and used only for the purpose of renting or leasing individual storage space in the facility under the following conditions:

      (1)   The occupants have access to the storage space only for the purpose of storing and removing personal property;

      (2)   The owner does not issue a warehouse receipt, bill of lading, or other document of title as defined in division (O) of Section 1301.01 of the Ohio Revised Code, for the personal property stored in the storage space; and

      (3)   The property has ten (10) or more individual storage spaces.

         (Ord. 14-05. Passed 3-21-05.)

   (b)   “Self-service storage facility” does not include any garage used principally for parking motor vehicles, an establishment licensed pursuant to Sections 915.14 to 915.24 of the Ohio Revised Code, or any property of a bank or building and loan association that contains vaults, safe deposit boxes, or other receptacles for the uses, purposes, and benefits of the bank’s or building and loan association’s customers.

   (c)   “Owner”, as used herein, shall be defined as a person or entity who is either the owner of a self-service storage facility, or the lessor of an entire self-service storage facility and who receives rent from an occupant pursuant to a rental agreement that he enters into with the occupant.

   (d)   “Occupant”, as used herein, shall be defined as a person or entity who rents storage space at a self-service storage facility pursuant to a rental agreement that he enters into with the owner.

   (e)   “Rental agreement”, as used herein, shall be defined as any formal agreement that is entered into by the owner and the occupant and that establishes the terms and conditions of the occupant’s use of storage space at a self-service storage facility.

   (f)   “Personal property”, as used herein, shall be defined as money and every animate or inanimate tangible thing that is the subject of ownership, except anything forming part of a parcel of real estate, as defined in Section 5701.01 of the Ohio Revised Code and except anything that is an agricultural commodity, as defined in division (A) of Section 926.01 of the Ohio Revised Code.
(Ord. 13-01. Passed 4-16-01.)