Georgia Code
Article 5 - Self-Service Storage Facilities
§ 10-4-211. Definitions

For purposes of this article, the term:
History. Ga. L. 1982, p. 2286, § 2; Code 1981, § 10-4-211 , enacted by Ga. L. 1982, p. 2286, § 7; Ga. L. 1983, p. 3, § 8; Ga. L. 2004, p. 976, § 1; Ga. L. 2013, p. 555, § 1/SB 61; Ga. L. 2019, p. 789, § 1/SB 97.
The 2019 amendment, effective July 1, 2019, substituted “Email” for “E-mail” at the beginning of paragraph (1); substituted “email” for “e-mail” in two places in paragraph (2); rewrote paragraph (4), which read: “ ‘Owner’ means the owner, operator, lessor, or sublessor of a self-service storage facility, his or her agent, or any other person authorized to manage the facility or to receive rent from an occupant under a rental agreement.”; and rewrote paragraph (7), which read: “ ‘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 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 within the meaning of Article 1 of this chapter, known as the ‘Georgia State Warehouse Act,’ and the provisions of law relative to bonded public warehousemen shall not apply to the owner of a self-service storage facility. A self-service storage facility is not a safe-deposit box or vault maintained by banks, trust companies, or other financial entities.