North Dakota Code 35-33-01 – Definitions
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
Terms Used In North Dakota Code 35-33-01
- 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.
- Individual: means a human being. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- 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.
- Person: means an individual, organization, government, political subdivision, or government agency or instrumentality. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Personal property: All property that is not real property.
- Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Property: includes property, real and personal. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
- United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- written: include "typewriting" and "typewritten" and "printing" and "printed" except in the case of signatures and when the words are used by way of contrast to typewriting and printing. See North Dakota Code 1-01-37
1. “Default” means failure of the occupant to perform any obligation or duty at the time and in the manner set forth in the rental agreement or under this chapter.
2. “Last-known address” means the postal or electronic mail address provided by the occupant in the latest rental agreement or the postal or electronic mail address provided by the occupant in a subsequent written notice of a change of address.
3. “Occupant” means the person who rents storage space at a self-service storage facility under a rental agreement, or a sublessee, successor, or assignee.
4. “Owner” means any person who owns, leases, subleases, manages, or operates a self-service storage facility, or the owner’s designee, who receives rent from an occupant under a rental agreement.
5. “Personal property” means movable property not affixed to land, including merchandise and household goods.
6. “Rental agreement” means a written agreement between the owner and the occupant which establishes or modifies the terms and conditions of the occupant’s use of storage space at a self-service storage facility.
7. “Self-service storage facility” means any real property used for renting or leasing individual storage spaces in which occupants customarily store and remove their personal property. The term does not include a garage used principally for parking motor vehicles; any property of a financial institution which contains vaults, safe deposit boxes, or other receptacles for the purposes and benefits of the financial institution’s customers; or a warehouse or a public warehouse where warehouse receipts, bills of lading, or other documents of title are issued for the personal property stored.
8. “Storage space” means an individual space at a self-service storage facility which is rented or leased by an occupant under a rental agreement.
9. “Verified mail” means any method of mailing offered by the United States postal service or a private delivery service which includes evidence of mailing.