7-9A-509
Section 7-9A-509 Persons entitled to file a record. (a) Person entitled to file record. A person
may file an initial financing statement, amendment that adds collateral covered by a financing
statement, or amendment that adds a debtor to a financing statement only if: (1) the debtor
authorizes the filing in an authenticated record or pursuant to subsection (b) or (c); or
(2) the person holds an agricultural lien that has become effective at the time of filing
and the financing statement covers only collateral in which the person holds an agricultural
lien. (b) Security agreement as authorization. By authenticating or becoming bound as debtor
by a security agreement, a debtor or new debtor authorizes the filing of an initial financing
statement, and an amendment, covering: (1) the collateral described in the security agreement;
and (2) property that becomes collateral under Section 7-9A-315(a)(2), whether or not the
security agreement expressly covers proceeds. (c) Acquisition of...
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7-9A-512
Section 7-9A-512 Amendment of financing statement. (a) Amendment of information in financing
statement. Subject to Section 7-9A-509, a person may add or delete collateral covered by,
continue or terminate the effectiveness of, or, subject to subsection (e), otherwise amend
the information provided in, a financing statement by filing an amendment that: (1) identifies,
by its file number, the initial financing statement to which the amendment relates; and (2)
if the amendment relates to an initial financing statement filed or recorded in a filing office
described in Section 7-9A-501(a)(1), provides the information specified in Section 7-9A-502(b).
(b) Period of effectiveness not affected. Except as otherwise provided in Section 7-9A-515,
the filing of an amendment does not extend the period of effectiveness of the financing statement.
(c) Effectiveness of amendment adding collateral. A financing statement that is amended by
an amendment that adds collateral is effective as to the added...
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7-9A-310
Section 7-9A-310 When filing required to perfect security interest or agricultural lien; security
interests and agricultural liens to which filing provisions do not apply. (a) General rule:
Perfection by filing. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) and Section 7-9A-312(b),
a financing statement must be filed to perfect all security interests and agricultural liens.
(b) Exceptions: Filing not necessary. The filing of a financing statement is not necessary
to perfect a security interest: (1) that is perfected under Section 7-9A-308(d), (e), (f),
or (g); (2) that is perfected under Section 7-9A-309 when it attaches; (3) in property subject
to a statute, regulation, or treaty described in Section 7-9A-311(a); (4) in goods in possession
of a bailee which is perfected under Section 7-9A-312(d)(1) or (2); (5) in certificated securities,
documents, goods, or instruments which is perfected without filing, control, or possession
under Section 7-9A-312(e), (f), or (g); (6) in collateral...
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7-9A-515
Section 7-9A-515 Duration and effectiveness of financing statement; effect of lapsed financing
statement. (a) Five-year effectiveness. Except as otherwise provided in subsections (b), (e),
(f), (g), and (h), a filed financing statement is effective for a period of five years after
the date of filing. (b) Manufactured-home transaction. Except as otherwise provided in subsections
(e), (f), and (g), an initial financing statement filed in connection with a manufactured-home
transaction is effective for a period of 30 years after the date of filing if it indicates
that it is filed in connection with a manufactured-home transaction. (c) Lapse and continuation
of financing statement. The effectiveness of a filed financing statement lapses on the expiration
of the period of its effectiveness unless before the lapse a continuation statement is filed
pursuant to subsection (d). Upon lapse, a financing statement ceases to be effective and any
security interest or agricultural lien that was...
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7-9A-519
Section 7-9A-519 Numbering, maintaining, and indexing records; communicating information provided
in records. (a) Filing office duties. For each record filed in a filing office, the filing
office shall: (1) assign a unique number to the filed record; (2) create a record that bears
the number assigned to the filed record and the date and time of filing; (3) maintain the
filed record for public inspection; and (4) index the filed record in accordance with subsections
(c), (d), and (e). (b) File number. By July 1, 2002, a file number must include a digit that:
(1) is mathematically derived from or related to the other digits of the file number; and
(2) aids the filing office in determining whether a number communicated as the file number
includes a single-digit or transpositional error. (c) Indexing: General. Except as otherwise
provided in subsections (d) and (e), the filing office shall: (1) index an initial financing
statement according to the name of the debtor and index all filed...
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7-9A-317
Section 7-9A-317 Interests that take priority over or take free of security interest or agricultural
lien. (a) Conflicting security interests and rights of lien creditors. A security interest
or agricultural lien is subordinate to the rights of: (1) a person entitled to priority under
Section 7-9A-322; and (2) except as otherwise provided in subsection (e), a person that becomes
a lien creditor before the earlier of the time: (A) the security interest or agricultural
lien is perfected; or (B) one of the conditions specified in Section 7-9A-203(b)(3) is met
and a financing statement covering the collateral is filed. (b) Buyers that receive delivery.
Except as otherwise provided in subsection (e), a buyer, other than a secured party, of tangible
chattel paper, tangible documents, goods, instruments, or a certificated security takes free
of a security interest or agricultural lien if the buyer gives value and receives delivery
of the collateral without knowledge of the security interest...
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7-9A-516
Section 7-9A-516 What constitutes filing; effectiveness of filing. (a) What constitutes filing.
Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), communication of a record to a filing office
and tender of the filing fee or acceptance of the record by the filing office constitutes
filing. (b) Refusal to accept record; filing does not occur. Filing does not occur with respect
to a record that a filing office refuses to accept because: (1) the record is not communicated
by a method or medium of communication authorized by the filing office; (2) an amount equal
to or greater than the applicable filing fee is not tendered; (3) the filing office is unable
to index the record because: (A) in the case of an initial financing statement, the record
does not provide a name for the debtor; (B) in the case of an amendment or information statement,
the record: (i) does not identify the initial financing statement as required by Section 7-9A-512
or 7-9A-518, as applicable; or (ii) identifies an initial...
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7-2A-309
Section 7-2A-309 Lessor's and lessee's rights when goods become fixtures. (1) In this section:
(a) goods are "fixtures" when they become so related to particular real estate that
an interest in them arises under real estate law; (b) a "fixture filing" is the
filing, in the office where a record of a mortgage on the real estate would be filed or recorded,
of a financing statement covering goods that are or are to become fixtures and conforming
to the requirements of Section 7-9A-502(a) and (b); (c) a lease is a "purchase money
lease" unless the lessee has possession or use of the goods or the right to possession
or use of the goods before the lease agreement is enforceable; (d) a mortgage is a "construction
mortgage" to the extent it secures an obligation incurred for the construction of an
improvement on land including the acquisition cost of the land, if the recorded writing so
indicates; and (e) "encumbrance" includes real estate mortgages and other liens
on real estate and all other...
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7-9A-315
Section 7-9A-315 Secured party's rights on disposition of collateral and in proceeds. (a) Disposition
of collateral: Continuation of security interest or agricultural lien; proceeds. Except as
otherwise provided in this article and in Section 7-2-403(2): (1) a security interest or agricultural
lien continues in collateral notwithstanding sale, lease, license, exchange, or other disposition
thereof unless the secured party authorized the disposition free of the security interest
or agricultural lien; and (2) a security interest attaches to any identifiable proceeds of
collateral. (b) When commingled proceeds identifiable. Proceeds that are commingled with other
property are identifiable proceeds: (1) if the proceeds are goods, to the extent provided
by Section 7-9A-336; and (2) if the proceeds are not goods, to the extent that the secured
party identifies the proceeds by a method of tracing, including application of equitable principles,
that is permitted under law other than this...
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7-9A-324
Section 7-9A-324 Priority of purchase-money security interests. (a) General rule: Purchase-money
priority. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (g), a perfected purchase-money security
interest in goods other than inventory or livestock has priority over a conflicting security
interest in the same goods, and, except as otherwise provided in Section 7-9A-327, a perfected
security interest in its identifiable proceeds also has priority, if the purchase-money security
interest is perfected when the debtor receives possession of the collateral or within 20 days
thereafter. (b) Inventory purchase-money priority. Subject to subsection (c) and except as
otherwise provided in subsection (g), a perfected purchase-money security interest in inventory
has priority over a conflicting security interest in the same inventory, has priority over
a conflicting security interest in chattel paper or an instrument constituting proceeds of
the inventory and in proceeds of the chattel paper, if so...
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