Title 57A — UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), the local law of the controllable electronic record's jurisdiction specified in § 57A-12-107 governs perfection, the effect of perfection or nonperfection, and the priority of a security interest in a controllable electronic record and a …

(a) In this section, "place of business" means a place where a debtor conducts its affairs. (b) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the following rules determine a debtor's location: (1) A debtor who is an individual is located at the individual's principal residence. (…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section and § 57A-9-309 , a security interest is perfected if it has attached and all of the applicable requirements for perfection in §§ 57A-9-310 through 57A-9-316 have been satisfied. A security interest is perfected when it attaches if…

The following security interests are perfected when they attach: (1) A purchase - money security interest in consumer goods, except as otherwise provided in § 57A-9-311(b) with respect to consumer goods that are subject to a statute or treaty described in § 57A-9-311(a); (2) An a…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) and § 57A-9-312 (b), a financing statement must be filed to perfect all security interests and agricultural liens. (b) The filing of a financing statement is not necessary to perfect a security interest: (1) That is perfected und…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d), the filing of a financing statement is not necessary or effective to perfect a security interest in property subject to: (1) A statute, regulation, or treaty of the United States whose requirements for a security interest's obta…

(a) A security interest in chattel paper, controllable accounts, controllable electronic records, controllable payment intangibles, instruments, investment property, or negotiable documents may be perfected by filing. (b) Except as otherwise provided in § 57A-9-315 (c) and (d) fo…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), a secured party may perfect a security interest in goods, instruments, negotiable tangible documents, or tangible money by taking possession of the collateral. A secured party may perfect a security interest in certificated secu…

(d) While goods are in the possession of a bailee that has issued a nonnegotiable document covering the goods, a security interest in the goods may be perfected by: (1) Issuance of a document in the name of the secured party; (2) The bailee's receipt of notification of the secure…

(a) A secured party may perfect a security interest in chattel paper by taking possession of each authoritative tangible copy of the record evidencing the chattel paper and obtaining control of each authoritative electronic copy of the electronic record evidencing chattel paper. …

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter and in § 57A-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 th…

(a) A security interest perfected pursuant to the law of the jurisdiction designated in § 57A-9-301 (1), 57A-9-305 (c), 57A-9-306.1 , or 57A-9-306.2 remains perfected until the earliest of: (1) The time perfection would have ceased under the law of that jurisdiction; (2) The expi…

(a) A security interest or agricultural lien is subordinate to the rights of: (1) A person entitled to priority under § 57A-9-322 ; 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 inter…

(a) A debtor that has sold an account, chattel paper, payment intangible, or promissory note does not retain a legal or equitable interest in the collateral sold. (b) For purposes of determining the rights of creditors of, and purchasers for value of an account or chattel paper f…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), for purposes of determining the rights of creditors of, and purchasers for value of goods from, a consignee, while the goods are in the possession of the consignee, the consignee is deemed to have rights and title to the goods i…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (e), a buyer in ordinary course of business, other than a person buying farm products from a person engaged in farming operations, takes free of a security interest created by the buyer's seller, even if the security interest is perf…

(a) In this section, "licensee in ordinary course of business" means a person that becomes a licensee of a general intangible in good faith, without knowledge that the license violates the rights of another person in the general intangible, and in the ordinary course from a perso…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, priority among conflicting security interests and agricultural liens in the same collateral is determined according to the following rules: (1) Conflicting perfected security interests and agricultural liens rank according to prio…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c), for purposes of determining the priority of a perfected security interest under § 57A-9-322 (a)(1), perfection of the security interest dates from the time an advance is made to the extent that the security interest secures an a…

(a) 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 § 57A-9-327 , a perfected securi…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), a security interest created by a debtor is subordinate to a security interest in the same collateral created by another person if: (1) The debtor acquired the collateral subject to the security interest created by the other pers…

(a) Subject to subsection (b), a security interest that is created by a new debtor in collateral in which the new debtor has or acquires rights and is perfected by a filed financing statement that would be ineffective to perfect the security interest but for the application of § …

A security interest in a controllable account, controllable electronic record, or controllable payment intangible held by a secured party having control of the account, electronic record, or payment intangible has priority over a conflicting security interest held by a secured pa…

The following rules govern priority among conflicting security interests in the same deposit account: (1) A security interest held by a secured party having control of the deposit account under § 57A-9-104 has priority over a conflicting security interest held by a secured party …

The following rules govern priority among conflicting security interests in the same investment property: (1) A security interest held by a secured party having control of investment property under § 57A-9-106 has priority over a security interest held by a secured party that doe…

The following rules govern priority among conflicting security interests in the same letter - of - credit right: (1) A security interest held by a secured party having control of the letter - of - credit right under § 57A-9-107 has priority to the extent of its control over a con…

(a) A purchaser of chattel paper has priority over a security interest in the chattel paper which is claimed merely as proceeds of inventory subject to a security interest if: (1) In good faith and in the ordinary course of the purchaser's business, the purchaser gives new value,…

(a) This chapter does not limit the rights of a holder in due course of a negotiable instrument, a holder to which a negotiable document of title has been duly negotiated, a protected purchaser of a security, or a qualifying purchaser of a controllable account, controllable elect…

(a) A transferee of tangible money takes the money free of a security interest if the transferee receives possession of the money without acting in collusion with the debtor in violating the rights of the secured party. (b) A transferee of funds from a deposit account takes the f…

(a) In this section, "possessory lien" means an interest, other than a security interest or an agricultural lien: (1) Which secures payment or performance of an obligation for services or materials furnished with respect to goods by a person in the ordinary course of the person's…

(a) A security interest under this chapter may be created in goods that are fixtures or may continue in goods that become fixtures. A security interest does not exist under this article in ordinary building materials incorporated into an improvement on land. (b) This chapter does…

(a) A security interest may be created in an accession and continues in collateral that becomes an accession. (b) If a security interest is perfected when the collateral becomes an accession, the security interest remains perfected in the collateral. (c) Except as otherwise provi…

(a) In this section, "commingled goods" means goods that are physically united with other goods in such a manner that their identity is lost in a product or mass. (b) A security interest does not exist in commingled goods as such. However, a security interest may attach to a prod…

If, while a security interest in goods is perfected by any method under the law of another jurisdiction, this State issues a certificate of title that does not show that the goods are subject to the security interest or contain a statement that they may be subject to security int…

If a security interest or agricultural lien is perfected by a filed financing statement providing information described in § 57A-9-516(b)(5) which is incorrect at the time the financing statement is filed: (1) The security interest or agricultural lien is subordinate to a conflic…

This chapter does not preclude subordination by agreement by a person entitled to priority. Source: SL 2000, ch 231 .

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c), a bank with which a deposit account is maintained may exercise any right of recoupment or set - off against a secured party that holds a security interest in the deposit account. (b) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c…

Except as otherwise provided in § 57A-9-340 (c), and unless the bank otherwise agrees in a signed record, a bank's rights and duties with respect to a deposit account maintained with the bank are not terminated, suspended, or modified by: (1) The creation, attachment, or perfecti…

This chapter does not require a bank to enter into an agreement of the kind described in § 57A-9-104(a)(2), even if its customer so requests or directs. A bank that has entered into such an agreement is not required to confirm the existence of the agreement to another person unle…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) and §§ 57A-9-406 , 57A-9-407 , 57A-9-408 , and 57A-9-409 , whether a debtor's rights in collateral may be voluntarily or involuntarily transferred is governed by law other than this article. (b) An agreement between the debtor an…

57A-9-403 "Value"--Agreement not to assert claims or defenses against assignee. 57A-9-403.1 57A-9-403.1 to 57A-9-403.5. Repealed by SL 1982, ch 347 , §§ 39 to 43 57A-9-404 Rights acquired by assignee--Claims and defenses against assignee. 57A-9-405 Effect of modification or subst…

The existence of a security interest, agricultural lien, or authority given to a debtor to dispose of or use collateral, without more, does not subject a secured party to liability in contract or tort for the debtor's acts or omissions. Source: SL 2000, ch 231 .

(a) In this section, "value" has the meaning provided in § 57A-3-303(a). (b) Except as otherwise provided in this section, an agreement between an account debtor and an assignor not to assert against an assignee any claim or defense that the account debtor may have against the as…

(a) Unless an account debtor has made an enforceable agreement not to assert defenses or claims, and subject to subsections (b) through (e), the rights of an assignee are subject to: (1) All terms of the agreement between the account debtor and assignor and any defense or claim i…

(a) A modification of or substitution for an assigned contract is effective against an assignee if made in good faith. The assignee acquires corresponding rights under the modified or substituted contract. The assignment may provide that the modification or substitution is a brea…

(a) Subject to subsections (b) through (i) and (l), an account debtor on an account, chattel paper, or a payment intangible may discharge its obligation by paying the assignor until, but not after, the account debtor receives a notification, signed by the assignor or the assignee…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), a term in a lease agreement is ineffective to the extent that it: (1) Prohibits, restricts, or requires the consent of a party to the lease to the assignment or transfer of, or the creation, attachment, perfection, or enforcemen…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (b) and (f), a term in a promissory note or in an agreement between an account debtor and a debtor which relates to a health-care-insurance receivable or a general intangible, including a contract, permit, license, or franchise, and…

(a) A term in a letter of credit or a rule of law, statute, regulation, custom, or practice applicable to the letter of credit which prohibits, restricts, or requires the consent of an applicant, issuer, or nominated person to a beneficiary's assignment of or creation of a securi…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), if the local law of this state governs perfection of a security interest or agricultural lien, the office in which to file a financing statement to perfect the security interest or agricultural lien is: (1) The office designated…