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The Oregon Self-Service Storage license

Self-Service Storage

A limited license letting a storage operator sell cover on what a renter puts in the unit. One license covers every facility the owner names, and the director can suspend it at some of them and not others.

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, naming every facility

    No state exam for this license

    The application and the list of facilities

    • An application on the form the director specifies by rule, disclosing the physical address of every self-service storage facility at which the owner will sell insurance and certifying that the applicant is the owner of each of them, with 30 days' notice to the director before selling at any facility not disclosed and within 30 days after ceasing to sell at one

    and the training program, filed every year

    • A training program for the employees or agents who sell, covering what the insurance covers and the requirements of ORS 744.860 to 744.870, with an outline and the materials submitted to the director each year for approval and an annual certification that everybody selling has completed it or will before selling

    ORS 744.862(1)(a) requires the license before an owner sells insurance to an occupant, and 744.862(1)(b) draws the line that decides who needs one: an owner who displays or makes an insurer's materials available, but does not sell the insurance or otherwise benefit from the insurer's sales, needs nothing. Merchandising is not selling here. 744.862(4)(b) makes the license cover every facility named in the application rather than one per site, and 744.862(3) then keeps the list live with two notice duties, 30 days before adding a facility and 30 days after dropping one. 744.868(2) is the matching enforcement power and no other Oregon license has it: the director may suspend or revoke "with respect to all or a portion of the licensee's self-service storage facilities". 744.866(1)(d) is the sentence worth carrying out of the chapter: an employee or agent who has completed the licensee's training program "is not required to undergo continuing education in the topics covered in the training program". Oregon says the same thing about the rental company's training the other way round at 744.856(2), where continuing education on those topics is promised annually. Two limited lines, two answers, four sections apart. 744.866(3)(b) makes the conduct of an employee or agent acting within the scope of their duties the conduct of the licensee, which is what stands in place of licensing them.

    Read at oregonlegislature.gov on 2026-08-19

No national seller sells a course for this license. Nothing could: ORS 744.862 licenses the storage owner on an application and a list of facilities, and the training under ORS 744.866 is a program the licensee runs and files with the Division each year. A seller has nothing to sell into it.