Ohio Code 5322.06 – Maximum value of stored property
(A) Except as otherwise provided in this section, if the rental agreement entered into between the owner and the occupant contains a provision placing a limit on the value of personal property that may be stored in the occupant’s storage space, that limit is the maximum value of the stored property, provided that the provision is printed in bold type or underlined in the rental agreement.
Terms Used In Ohio Code 5322.06
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Occupant: means a person that rents storage space at a self-service storage facility pursuant to a rental agreement that the person enters into with the owner. See Ohio Code 5322.01
- Owner: means a person that is the owner or operator of a self-service storage facility, the lessor or sublessor of an entire self-service storage facility, the agent of any of the foregoing, or any other person authorized by any of the foregoing to manage the facility or to receive rent from an occupant pursuant to a rental agreement. See Ohio Code 5322.01
- Personal property: All property that is not real property.
- Personal property: means money and every animate or inanimate tangible thing that is the subject of ownership, except anything forming part of a parcel of real estate, as defined in section 5701. See Ohio Code 5322.01
- Property: means real and personal property. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Rental agreement: means any written agreement that is entered into by the owner and the occupant and that establishes the terms and conditions of the occupant's use of storage space at a self-service storage facility. See Ohio Code 5322.01
(B) A limit on the value of personal property under division (A) of this section shall not be less than one thousand dollars.
(C) The rental agreement may provide that the occupant may increase the limit on the value of property with the written permission of the owner.
(D) Nothing in a rental agreement shall limit an occupant’s claim for damages based on the loss or destruction of personal property stored in the occupant’s storage space, when those damages are the result of negligence by, or on behalf of the owner.
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