402-O:1 Definitions. –
In this chapter:
I. "Commissioner" means the insurance commissioner.
II. "Location" means any physical location in the state of New Hampshire.
III. "Owner" means a business entity that is the owner, lessor, or sublessor of a self-service storage facility, the owner's agent, or any other person authorized by the owner to manage the facility, or to receive rent from a renter. The owner may be a resident or non-resident of this state.
IV. "Personal property" means movable property not affixed to land.
V. "Rental agreement" means any written agreement that establishes or modifies the terms, conditions, or rules concerning the use and occupancy of a rented space at a self-service storage facility.
VI. "Renter" means a person, or any agent or representative of the person, entitled to the use of rented space at a self-service storage facility under a rental agreement to the exclusion of others.
VII. "Self-service storage facility" means any real property designed and used for the purpose of renting or leasing individual storage space in which the renters themselves customarily store and remove their own personal property on a self-service basis. A self-service storage facility is not a warehouse as the term "warehouse" is used in RSA 382-A:7-102.
VIII. "Self-service storage insurance" means personal property insurance offered in connection with and incidental to the rental of a rented space at a self-service storage facility and which provides coverage to renters for the loss of or damage to personal property occurring at the facility or when the property is in transit to or from the facility during the period of the rental agreement.
IX. "Supervising entity" means a business entity that is a licensed admitted insurer or insurance producer licensed under RSA 402-J that is appointed or authorized by an insurer to supervise the administration of a self-service storage insurance program.
Source. 2021, 119:2, Pt. III, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.