2016 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 38 - Property - Real and Personal
Liens
Article 21.5 - Self-Service Storage Facility Liens
§ 38-21.5-101. Definitions

As used in this article, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) "Default" means the failure to perform in a timely manner any obligation or duty set forth in this article or the rental agreement.

(1.5) "Electronic mail" or "e-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. The term includes electronic messages that are transmitted within or between computer networks.

(2) "Last-known address" means that postal address or e-mail address provided by the occupant in the latest rental agreement or 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 that establishes or modifies the terms, conditions, rules, or any other provisions concerning the use and occupancy at a self-service storage facility and that 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. The agreement must contain a provision directing the occupant to disclose any lienholders with an interest in property that is or will be stored in the self-service storage facility.

(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. No occupant shall use a self-service storage facility for residential purposes. A self-service storage facility is not a warehouse as used in sections 4-7-209 and 4-7-210, C.R.S. If an owner issues any warehouse receipt, bill of lading, or other document of title for the personal property stored, the owner and the occupant are subject to the provisions of the "Uniform Commercial Code", and the provisions of this article do not apply.

(8) "Vehicle" means any item of personal property required to be registered with the department of revenue pursuant to section 42-3-103, C.R.S.

(9) "Verified mail" means any method of mailing that is offered by the United States postal service and that provides evidence of mailing.

(10) "Watercraft" means any vessel, including a personal watercraft, as defined in section 33-13-102, C.R.S.