Title 7

(a) If an owner of a certificated security, whether in registered or bearer form, claims that the certificate has been lost, destroyed, or wrongfully taken, the issuer shall issue a new certificate if the owner: (1) so requests before the issuer has notice that the certificate ha…

If a security certificate has been lost, apparently destroyed, or wrongfully taken, and the owner fails to notify the issuer of that fact within a reasonable time after the owner has notice of it and the issuer registers a transfer of the security before receiving notification, t…

A person acting as authenticating trustee, transfer agent, registrar, or other agent for an issuer in the registration of a transfer of its securities, in the issue of new security certificates or uncertificated securities, or in the cancellation of surrendered security certifica…

(a) “Securities account” means an account to which a financial asset is or may be credited in accordance with an agreement under which the person maintaining the account undertakes to treat the person for whom the account is maintained as entitled to exercise the rights that comp…

An action based on an adverse claim to a financial asset, whether framed in conversion, replevin, constructive trust, equitable lien, or other theory, may not be asserted against a person who acquired a security entitlement with respect to such financial asset under Section 7-8-5…

(a) To the extent necessary for a securities intermediary to satisfy all security entitlements with respect to a particular financial asset, all interests in that financial asset held by the securities intermediary are held by the securities intermediary for the entitlement holde…

(a) A securities intermediary shall promptly obtain and thereafter maintain a financial asset in a quantity corresponding to the aggregate of all security entitlements it has established in favor of its entitlement holders with respect to that financial asset. The securities inte…

(a) A securities intermediary shall take action to obtain a payment or distribution made by the issuer of a financial asset. A securities intermediary satisfies the duty if: (1) the securities intermediary acts with respect to the duty as agreed upon by the entitlement holder and…

A securities intermediary shall exercise rights with respect to a financial asset if directed to do so by an entitlement holder. A securities intermediary satisfies the duty if: (1) the securities intermediary acts with respect to the duty as agreed upon by the entitlement holder…

(a) A securities intermediary shall comply with an entitlement order if the entitlement order is originated by the appropriate person, the securities intermediary has had reasonable opportunity to assure itself that the entitlement order is genuine and authorized, and the securit…

A securities intermediary shall act at the direction of an entitlement holder to change a security entitlement into another available form of holding for which the entitlement holder is eligible, or to cause the financial asset to be transferred to a securities account of the ent…

(a) If the substance of a duty imposed upon a securities intermediary by Sections 7-8-504 through 7-8-508 is the subject of other statute, regulation, or rule, compliance with that statute, regulation, or rule satisfies the duty. (b) To the extent that specific standards for the …

(a) In a case not covered by the priority rules in Article 9A or the rules stated in subsection (c), an action based on an adverse claim to a financial asset or security entitlement, whether framed in conversion, replevin, constructive trust, equitable lien, or other theory, may …

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (b) and (c), if a securities intermediary does not have sufficient interests in a particular financial asset to satisfy both its obligations to entitlement holders who have security entitlements to that financial asset and its oblig…

This act takes effect January 1, 1996. (Acts 1996, No. 96-742, p. 1241, §1.)

This act repeals Sections 8-6-70 through 8-6-80, cited as the Uniform Act for Simplification of Fiduciary Security Transfers. (Acts 1996, No. 96-742, p. 1241, §1.)

(a) This act does not affect an action or proceeding commenced before this act takes effect. (b) If a security interest in a security is perfected at the date this act takes effect, and the action by which the security interest was perfected would suffice to perfect a security in…

This article may be cited as Uniform Commercial Code-Secured Transactions. (Act 2001-481, p. 647, §1.)

(a) Article 9A definitions. In this article: (1) “Accession” means goods that are physically united with other goods in such a manner that the identity of the original goods is not lost. (2) “Account,” except as used in “account for,” “account statement,” “account to,” “commodity…

(a) Definitions. In this section: (1) “purchase-money collateral” means goods or software that secures a purchase-money obligation incurred with respect to that collateral; and (2) “purchase-money obligation” means an obligation of an obligor incurred as all or part of the price …

(a) Requirements for control. A secured party has control of a deposit account if: (1) the secured party is the bank with which the deposit account is maintained; (2) the debtor, secured party, and bank have agreed in a signed record that the bank will comply with instructions or…

(a) General Rule: control of electronic copy of record evidencing chattel paper. A purchaser has control of an authoritative electronic copy of a record evidencing chattel paper if a system employed for evidencing the assignment of interests in the chattel paper reliably establis…

(a) Control under Section 7-8-106. A person has control of a certificated security, uncertificated security, or security entitlement as provided in Section 7-8-106. (b) Control of commodity contract. A secured party has control of a commodity contract if: (1) the secured party is…

A secured party has control of a letter-of-credit right to the extent of any right to payment or performance by the issuer or any nominated person if the issuer or nominated person has consented to an assignment of proceeds of the letter of credit under Section 7-5-114(c) or othe…

(a) Control under Section 7-12-105. A secured party has control of a controllable electronic record as provided in Section 7-12-105. (b) Control of controllable account and controllable payment intangible. A secured party has control of a controllable account or controllable paym…

(a) No requirement to acknowledge. A person that has control under Section 7-9A-104, or 7-9A-105, is not required to acknowledge that it has control on behalf of another person. (b) No duties or confirmation. If a person acknowledges that it has or will obtain control on behalf o…

(a) Sufficiency of description. Except as otherwise provided in subsections (c), (d), and (e), a description of personal or real property is sufficient, whether or not it is specific, if it reasonably identifies what is described. (b) Examples of reasonable identification. Except…

(a) General scope of article. Except as otherwise provided in subsections (c) and (d), this article applies to: (1) a transaction, regardless of its form, that creates a security interest in personal property or fixtures by contract; (2) an agricultural lien; (3) a sale of accoun…

A security interest arising under Section 7-2-401, 7-2-505, 7-2-711(3), or 7-2A-508(5) is subject to this article. However, until the debtor obtains possession of the goods: (1) the security interest is enforceable, even if Section 7-9A-203(b)(3) has not been satisfied; (2) filin…

(a) General effectiveness. Except as otherwise provided in the Uniform Commercial Code, a security agreement is effective according to its terms between the parties, against purchasers of the collateral, and against creditors. (b) Applicable consumer laws and other law. A transac…

Except as otherwise provided with respect to consignments or sales of accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, or promissory notes, the provisions of this article with regard to rights and obligations apply whether title to collateral is in the secured party or the debtor. (…

(a) Attachment. A security interest attaches to collateral when it becomes enforceable against the debtor with respect to the collateral, unless an agreement expressly postpones the time of attachment. (b) Enforceability. Except as otherwise provided in subsections (c) through (i…

(a) After-acquired collateral. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), a security agreement may create or provide for a security interest in after-acquired collateral. (b) When after-acquired property clause not effective. Subject to subsection (b.1), a security interest …

(a) When security interest not invalid or fraudulent. A security interest is not invalid or fraudulent against creditors solely because: (1) the debtor has the right or ability to: (A) use, commingle, or dispose of all or part of the collateral, including returned or repossessed …

(a) Security interest when person buys through securities intermediary. A security interest in favor of a securities intermediary attaches to a person’s security entitlement if: (1) the person buys a financial asset through the securities intermediary in a transaction in which th…

(a) Duty of care when secured party in possession. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d), a secured party shall use reasonable care in the custody and preservation of collateral in the secured party’s possession. In the case of chattel paper or an instrument, reasonable …

(a) Applicability of section. This section applies to cases in which there is no outstanding secured obligation and the secured party is not committed to make advances, incur obligations, or otherwise give value. (b) Duties of secured party after receiving demand from debtor. Wit…

(a) Applicability of section. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c), this section applies if: (1) there is no outstanding secured obligation; and (2) the secured party is not committed to make advances, incur obligations, or otherwise give value. (b) Duties of secured pa…

(a) Definitions. In this section: (1) “Request” means a record of a type described in paragraph (2), (3), or (4). (2) “Request for an accounting” means a record signed by a debtor requesting that the recipient provide an accounting of the unpaid obligations secured by collateral …

Except as otherwise provided in Sections 7-9A-303 through 7-9A-306B, the following rules determine the law governing perfection, the effect of perfection or nonperfection, and the priority of a security interest in collateral: (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, whi…

While farm products are located in a jurisdiction, the local law of that jurisdiction governs perfection, the effect of perfection or nonperfection, and the priority of an agricultural lien on the farm products. (Act 2001-481, p. 647, §1.)

(a) Applicability of section. This section applies to goods covered by a certificate of title, even if there is no other relationship between the jurisdiction under whose certificate of title the goods are covered and the goods or the debtor. (b) When goods covered by certificate…

(a) Law of bank’s jurisdiction governs. The local law of a bank’s jurisdiction governs perfection, the effect of perfection or nonperfection, and the priority of a security interest in a deposit account maintained with that bank even if the transaction does not bear any relation …

(a) Governing law: General rules. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c), the following rules apply: (1) While a security certificate is located in a jurisdiction, the local law of that jurisdiction governs perfection, the effect of perfection or nonperfection, and the pr…

(a) Governing law: Issuer’s or nominated person’s jurisdiction. Subject to subsection (c), the local law of the issuer’s jurisdiction or a nominated person’s jurisdiction governs perfection, the effect of perfection or nonperfection, and the priority of a security interest in a l…

(a) Chattel paper evidenced by authoritative electronic copy. Except as provided in subsection (d), if chattel paper is evidenced only by an authoritative electronic copy of the chattel paper or is evidenced by an authoritative electronic copy and an authoritative tangible copy, …