Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 33 > Chapter 15 - Self-Service Storage

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Default: means the failure to perform on time any obligation or duty set forth in the rental agreement. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• Department: means the Arizona game and fish department in the case of motorized watercraft and the department of transportation in the case of all other vehicles. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• 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 from which a confirmation of receipt is received. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Last known address: means that postal address or electronic address provided by the occupant in the rental agreement or the postal address or electronic address provided by the occupant in a subsequent written notice of a change of address. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• Late fee: means a reasonable fee or charge that is assessed by the operator for the failure of the occupant to pay rent when due pursuant to section 33-1703, subsection D. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• Leased space: means the storage space or spaces at the self-service storage facility that are rented to an occupant pursuant to a rental agreement. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Net proceeds: means the total proceeds received from the lien sale minus the total amount of the lien. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Occupant: means a person or the person's sublessee, successor or assign that is entitled to the use of the leased space at a self-service storage facility under a rental agreement, to the exclusion of others. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• 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. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Personal property: means movable property that is not affixed to land and includes goods, wares, merchandise, household items and furnishings and vehicles. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Protected property: means personal property for which the sale or disposal is regulated by state or federal law and that is one of the following:

  (a) Documents, files or electronic data that contains personal information relating to clients, customers, patients or others in connection with the occupant's business. See Arizona Laws 33-1701

• Registered owner: means an owner of a vehicle as stated in the official records of the department. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• Rental agreement: means any written agreement provided to the occupant that establishes or modifies the terms, conditions or rules concerning the use and occupancy of leased space at a self-service storage facility. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Self-service storage facility: means any real property used for renting or leasing storage spaces in which the occupants themselves customarily store and remove their own personal property on a self-service basis. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• Vehicle: means a motor vehicle, a trailer or a semitrailer as defined in section 28-101 and a motorized watercraft as defined in section 5-301. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• Verified mail: means any method of mailing that is offered by the United States postal service and that provides evidence of mailing. See Arizona Laws 33-1701