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The Maryland Self-Service Storage license

Self-Service Storage

Lets a storage facility sell cover on what its tenants put in the unit. Maryland licenses the owner and the individual the owner designates, and then writes six things into the statute that must be told to the tenant before anything is sold.

Course

None

This license has no pre-licensing course route.

Ways in

1

There is no state exam for this license.

Exam

n/a

Not required on any of the routes below.

Every way to qualify

  1. Route 1 Apply as the owner, and name a responsible producer

    No state exam for this license

    Who applies

    • The owner of the facility, and an individual the owner designates as responsible for compliance with Maryland insurance law. A business entity applicant designates somebody actively licensed as a self-service storage producer or as a producer with the property and casualty lines of authority, who answers for the acts of the facility's employees and authorized representatives.

    and the application

    • A written application in the Commissioner's form giving the physical address of the producer's company headquarters and a list of every self-service storage facility where business will be conducted under the license.

    and what the tenant has to be told

    • Brochures or written materials readily available to prospective occupants summarizing the terms, the insurer, the price, the benefits, the deductibles, the exclusions and the conditions; a disclosure that the cover may duplicate a homeowner's, renter's, vehicle or watercraft policy and whether it would be primary; a statement that buying it is not a condition of renting where other cover is evidenced; the claims process; and how to complain to the Administration. The occupant signs an acknowledgment of the amount of cover, and is advised in writing to see a licensed property and casualty producer if the contents are worth more than the policy.

    Md. Code, Insurance 10-802(a) issues the license to the owner and to the designated individual alike, and (b) limits it to cover sold in connection with and incidental to the rental of storage space, on a master, corporate, commercial, group or individual policy. The disclosure list came in with Senate Bill 490, Chapter 174 of the Acts of 2014, effective 2014-07-01, and the Administration prints it as a condition of sale rather than of licensing, which is why it sits here as a requirement of the route rather than as a footnote. Maryland's 2024 repeal of the program of study is scoped to applicants who sit an examination, and this line sits none, so the zero on the state page reaches it by a different road: there is no course here because the subtitle asks for none.

    Read at mgaleg.maryland.gov on 2026-08-19

The Maryland products sellers do carry are all for a major producer line or for the adjuster paper; Aceable sells nothing in Maryland at all. Maryland asks for no course here and its examination vendor gives no paper for this license, so there is nothing to sell.