Sec. 45.29.311. - Perfection of security interests in property subject to certain statutes, regulations, and treaties. - Alaska Statutes

(a) Except as otherwise provided in (d) of this section, 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 obtaining priority over the rights of a lien creditor with respect to the property preempt AS 45.29.310(a);

(2) AS 28.10; however, during a period in which collateral is inventory held for sale by a person who is in the business of selling goods of that kind, the filing provisions of AS 45.29.501 - 45.29.525 apply to a security interest in that collateral created by that person as debtor; or

(3) a certificate-of-title statute of another jurisdiction that provides for a security interest to be indicated on the certificate as a condition or result of the security interest's obtaining priority over the rights of a lien creditor with respect to the property.

(b) Compliance with the requirements of a statute, regulation, or treaty described in (a) of this section for obtaining priority over the rights of a lien creditor is equivalent to the filing of a financing statement under this chapter. Except as otherwise provided in (d) of this section, AS 45.29.313 , and 45.29.316(d) and (e) for goods covered by a certificate of title, a security interest in property subject to a statute, regulation, or treaty described in (a) of this section may be perfected only by compliance with those requirements, and a security interest so perfected remains perfected notwithstanding a change in the use or transfer of possession of the collateral.

(c) Except as otherwise provided in (d) of this section and AS 45.29.316(d) and (e), duration and renewal of perfection of a security interest perfected by compliance with the requirements prescribed by a statute, regulation, or treaty described in (a) of this section are governed by the statute, regulation, or treaty. In other respects, the security interest is subject to this chapter.

(d) During a period in which collateral subject to a statute specified in (a)(2) of this section is inventory held for sale or lease by a person or leased by that person as lessor and that person is in the business of selling goods of that kind, this section does not apply to a security interest in that collateral created by that person.