Okla. Stat. tit. 42 § 192

Current through Laws 2024, c. 453.

Section 192 - Definitions

As used in the Self-Service Storage Facility Lien Act, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. "Default" means the failure by the occupant to perform in a timely manner any obligation or duty set forth in this act or the rental agreement;

2. "Last-known address" means that address or electronic mail address provided by the occupant in the latest rental agreement or the address or electronic mail address provided by the occupant in a subsequent written notice of a change of address;

3. "Occupant" means a person, or his sublessee, successor, or assign, entitled to the use of the storage space at a self-service storage facility under a rental agreement, to the exclusion of others;

4. "Owner" means the owner, operator, lessor, or sublessor of a self-service storage facility, his agent, or any other person authorized by him to manage the facility or to receive rent from an occupant under a rental agreement;

5. "Personal property" means movable property not affixed to land and includes, but is not limited to, goods, merchandise, and household items;

6. "Rental agreement" means any written agreement or lease which establishes or modifies the terms, conditions, rules, or any other provisions concerning the use and occupancy at a self-service storage facility and which contains a notice stating that all articles stored under the terms of such agreement will be sold or otherwise disposed of if no payment has been received for a continuous thirty-day period;

7. "Self-service storage facility" means any real property designed and used for the purpose of renting or leasing individual storage space to occupants who are to have access to such facility for the purpose of storing and removing personal property;

8. "Electronic mail" means an electronic message or an executable program or computer file that contains an image of a message that is transmitted between two or more computers or electronic terminals and includes electronic messages that are transmitted within or between computer networks;

9. "Sale" means a sale made after public notice and includes but is not limited to a sale at the self-service storage facility or a sale conducted online at a publicly accessible website; and

10. "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.

Okla. Stat. tit. 42, § 192

Amended by Laws 2018, c. 160,s. 1, eff. 11/1/2018.

Added by Laws 1998, HB 2983, c. 306, §2, eff. 11/1/1998.