1121.731 WAREHOUSING FACILITY.

   (a)   “Warehousing facility”, where that term is used in the Codified Ordinances of the City of Dover, shall be defined as:

      (1)   Any real property that is designed and used for the purpose of renting, leasing, or utilizing a facility for purposes of providing storage of personal property for which a document of title is or may be issued in connection with or relating to the storage of such personalty; or

      (2)   Any other real property that is designed and used for the primary purpose of renting or leasing a facility for the storage of personal property, except for those facilities specifically defined by the Dover Codified Ordinances as “self-service storage facilities”.

   (b)   “Document of title” includes a bill of lading, dock warrant, dock receipt, warehouse receipt, or order for the delivery of goods, and any other document that in the regular coarse of business or financing is treated as adequately evidencing that the person in possession of it is entitled to receive, hold, and dispose of the document and the goods it covers. To be a document of title, a document must purport to be issued by or addressed to a bailee and purport to cover goods in the bailee’s possession that are either identified or are fungible portions of an identified mass. (Ord. 13-01. Passed 4-16-01.)