Rhode Island Self-Service Storage Facility Act

The act governs the relationship between operators of self-service storage facilities and the occupants who rent space in them, principally by giving the facility a lien on property stored on the premises to secure unpaid rent and other charges owed under the rental agreement. It establishes when that lien attaches and what it reaches, the notice that must be given before the lien is enforced, and the advertising and procedural steps required before stored property may be sold. It further directs how the proceeds of a sale are applied and what becomes of any remainder, while leaving the underlying debt recoverable by ordinary action if the sale does not satisfy it. --- Separately, flagging a likely data defect rather than working around it silently: most of those section titles do not belong to a self-service storage act. Aircraft sales, labor-and-materials liens against public works, contractor payment bonds and sureties, superior court distribution among subcontractors and laborers, and removal of a cemetery monument are mechanics'-lien and public-works-bond material. Only a minority of the titles (definitions, short title, right of lien, notice of lien and its contents/filing/service, enforcement by action and sale, notice of sale and advertisement, sale of unclaimed property, proceeds and their disposition, action to recover debt not barred) are plausibly the storage act — and those are exactly the ones I wrote from. The likely cause is that the ingest captured a whole lien chapter of the state's code and attributed all of it to the act, rather than the specific article. If so, that state's page is showing ~20 wrong sections, and the same pattern may affect other acts pulled from multi-article chapters. Point me at the ingest script or the state page and I'll trace where the section range is scoped and fix it.

Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.