For purposes of this part:

(1) “Commissioner” means the commissioner of commerce and insurance or the commissioner’s designee;

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 56-6-1201

  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of commerce and insurance. See Tennessee Code 56-1-102
  • Department: means the department of commerce and insurance. See Tennessee Code 56-1-102
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Person: means any association, aggregate of individuals, business, company, corporation, individual, joint-stock company, Lloyds-type organization, organization, partnership, receiver, reciprocal or interinsurance exchange, trustee or society. See Tennessee Code 56-16-102
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • real property: include lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein, equitable as well as legal. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(2) “Covered personal property” means personal property covered under an occupant’s self-service storage insurance policy;
(3) “Department” means the department of commerce and insurance;
(4) “Enrolled occupant” means an occupant who elects coverage under a self-service storage insurance policy issued to an owner;
(5) “Leased space” means the storage space or spaces at the self-service storage facility that is leased or rented to an occupant pursuant to a rental agreement;
(6) “Location” means any physical location in this state or any web site, or similar location directed to residents of this state;
(7) “Occupant” means a person, or a sublessee, successor or assign of such person, entitled to the use of leased or rented storage space at a self-service storage facility under a rental agreement, to the exclusion of others;
(8) “Owner” means:

(A) The owner, operator, lessor or sublessor of a self-service storage facility, the agent of such person; or
(B) Any person authorized by such person to manage the facility or to receive rent from an occupant under a rental agreement;
(9) “Personal property” means movable property not affixed to land and includes, but is not limited to, goods, wares, merchandise, household items and vehicles;
(10) “Rental agreement” means any agreement or lease, written or oral, that establishes or modifies the terms, conditions, rules or any other provisions concerning the use and occupancy of leased or rented storage space at a self-service storage facility;
(11) “Self-service storage facility”:

(A) Means any real property designed and used for the purpose of renting or leasing storage space to occupants who are to have access to such space for the purpose of storing and removing personal property; and
(B) Does not include any part of the real property used for residential purposes;
(12) “Self-service storage insurance”:

(A) Means insurance which may provide coverage for the repair or replacement of covered personal property against any one (1) or more of the following causes:

(i) Loss;
(ii) Theft;
(iii) Damage; or
(iv) Other similar causes of loss; and
(B) Does not include a homeowner’s, renter’s, private passenger automobile, commercial multi-peril or similar policy;
(13) “Self-service storage transaction” means the lease of self-service storage space by an owner to an occupant pursuant to a rental agreement;
(14) “Supervising entity” means a business entity that is a licensed insurance producer or insurer; and
(15) “Vehicle” means a motor vehicle, a trailer or a semitrailer as defined in §§ 55-1-103 and 55-1-105 and a vessel as defined in § 69-9-204.
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