IC 26-1-9.1
Chapter 9.1. Secured Transactions
IC 26-1-9.1-101
Short title
Sec. 101. IC 26-1-9.1 may be cited as Uniform Commercial
Code_Secured Transactions.
As added by P.L.57-2000, SEC.45.
IC 26-1-9.1-102
Definitions and index of definitions
Sec. 102. (a) In IC 26-1-9.1:
(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", means a right to
payment of a monetary obligation, whether or not earned by
performance:
(A) for property that has been or is to be sold, leased,
licensed, assigned, or otherwise disposed of;
(B) for services rendered or to be rendered;
(C) for a policy of insurance issued or to be issued;
(D) for a secondary obligation incurred or to be incurred;
(E) for energy provided or to be provided;
(F) for the use or hire of a vessel under a charter or other
contract;
(G) arising out of the use of a credit or charge card or
information contained on or for use with the card; or
(H) as winnings in a lottery or other game of chance
operated or sponsored by a state other than Indiana, a
governmental unit of a state, or a person licensed or
authorized to operate the game by a state or governmental
unit of a state.
The term does not include a right to a payment of a prize
awarded by the state lottery commission in the Indiana state
lottery established under IC 4-30. The term includes
health-care-insurance receivables. The term does not include (i)
rights to payment evidenced by chattel paper or an instrument,
(ii) commercial tort claims, (iii) deposit accounts, (iv)
investment property, (v) letter-of-credit rights or letters of
credit, or (vi) rights to payment for money or funds advanced or
sold, other than rights arising out of the use of a credit or charge
card or information contained on or for use with the card.
(3) "Account debtor" means a person obligated on an account,
chattel paper, or general intangible. The term does not include
persons obligated to pay a negotiable instrument, even if the
instrument constitutes part of chattel paper.
(4) "Accounting", except as used in "accounting for", means a
record:
(A) authenticated by a secured party;
(B) indicating the aggregate unpaid secured obligations as of
a date not more than thirty-five (35) days earlier or
thirty-five (35) days later than the date of the record; and
(C) identifying the components of the obligations in
reasonable detail.
(5) "Agricultural lien" means an interest, other than a security
interest, in farm products:
(A) that secures payment or performance of an obligation
for:
(i) goods or services furnished in connection with a
debtor's farming operation; or
(ii) rent on real property leased by a debtor in connection
with the debtor's farming operation;
(B) that is created by statute in favor of a person that:
(i) in the ordinary course of its business furnished goods
or services to a debtor in connection with the debtor's
farming operation; or
(ii) leased real property to a debtor in connection with the
debtor's farming operation; and
(C) whose effectiveness does not depend on the person's
possession of the personal property.
(6) "As-extracted collateral" means:
(A) oil, gas, or other minerals that are subject to a security
interest that:
(i) is created by a debtor having an interest in the minerals
before extraction; and
(ii) attaches to the minerals as extracted; or
(B) accounts arising out of the sale at the wellhead or
minehead of oil, gas, or other minerals in which the debtor
had an interest before extraction.
(7) "Authenticate" means:
(A) to sign; or
(B) to execute or otherwise adopt a symbol, or encrypt or
similarly process a record in whole or in part, with the
present intent of the authenticating person to identify the
person and adopt or accept a record.
(8) "Bank" means an organization that is engaged in the
business of banking. The term includes savings banks, savings
and loan associations, credit unions, and trust companies.
(9) "Cash proceeds" means proceeds that are money, checks,
deposit accounts, or the like.
(10) "Certificate of title" means a certificate of title with respect
to which a statute provides for the security interest in question
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 collateral.
(11) "Chattel paper" means a record or records that evidence
both a monetary obligation and a security interest in specific
goods, a security interest in specific goods and software used in
the goods, a security interest in specific goods and license of
software used in the goods, a lease of specific goods, or a lease
of specific goods and license of software used in the goods. In
this subdivision, "monetary obligation" means a monetary
obligation secured by the goods or owed under a lease of the
goods and includes a monetary obligation with respect to
software used in the goods. The term "chattel paper" does not
include: (i) charters or other contracts involving the use or hire
of a vessel; or (ii) records that evidence a right to payment
arising out of the use of a credit or charge card or information
contained on or for use with the card. If a transaction is
evidenced by records that include an instrument or series of
instruments, the group of records taken together constitutes
chattel paper.
(12) "Collateral" means the property subject to a security
interest or agricultural lien. The term includes:
(A) proceeds to which a security interest attaches;
(B) accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, and
promissory notes that have been sold; and
(C) goods that are the subject of a consignment.
(13) "Commercial tort claim" means a claim arising in tort with
respect to which:
(A) the claimant is an organization; or
(B) the claimant is an individual and the claim:
(i) arose in the course of the claimant's business or
profession; and
(ii) does not include damages arising out of personal injury
to or the death of an individual.
(14) "Commodity account" means an account maintained by a
commodity intermediary in which a commodity contract is
carried for a commodity customer.
(15) "Commodity contract" means a commodity futures
contract, an option on a commodity futures contract, a
commodity option, or another contract if the contract or option
is:
(A) traded on or subject to the rules of a board of trade that
has been designated as a contract market for such a contract
pursuant to federal commodities laws; or
(B) traded on a foreign commodity board of trade, exchange,
or market, and is carried on the books of a commodity
intermediary for a commodity customer.
(16) "Commodity customer" means a person for which a
commodity intermediary carries a commodity contract on its
books.
(17) "Commodity intermediary" means a person that:
(A) is registered as a futures commission merchant under
federal commodities law; or
(B) in the ordinary course of its business provides clearance
or settlement services for a board of trade that has been
designated as a contract market pursuant to federal
commodities law.
(18) "Communicate" means:
(A) to send a written or other tangible record;
(B) to transmit a record by any means agreed upon by the
persons sending and receiving the record; or
(C) in the case of transmission of a record to or by a filing
office, to transmit a record by any means prescribed by
filing-office rule.
(19) "Consignee" means a merchant to which goods are
delivered in a consignment.
(20) "Consignment" means a transaction, regardless of its form,
in which a person delivers goods to a merchant for the purpose
of sale and:
(A) the merchant:
(i) deals in goods of that kind under a name other than the
name of the person making delivery;
(ii) is not an auctioneer; and
(iii) is not generally known by its creditors to be
substantially engaged in selling the goods of others;
(B) with respect to each delivery, the aggregate value of the
goods is one thousand dollars ($1,000) or more at the time
of delivery;
(C) the goods are not consumer goods immediately before
delivery; and
(D) the transaction does not create a security interest that
secures an obligation.
(21) "Consignor" means a person that delivers goods to a
consignee in a consignment.
(22) "Consumer debtor" means a debtor in a consumer
transaction.
(23) "Consumer goods" means goods that are used or bought for
use primarily for personal, family, or household purposes.
(24) "Consumer-goods transaction" means a consumer
transaction in which:
(A) an individual incurs an obligation primarily for personal,
family, or household purposes; and
(B) a security interest in consumer goods secures the
obligation.
(25) "Consumer obligor" means an obligor who is an individual
and who incurred the obligation as part of a transaction entered
into primarily for personal, family, or household purposes.
(26) "Consumer transaction" means a transaction in which (i) an
individual incurs an obligation primarily for personal, family,
or household purposes, (ii) a security interest secures the
obligation, and (iii) the collateral is held or acquired primarily
for personal, family, or household purposes. The term includes
consumer-goods transactions.
(27) "Continuation statement" means an amendment of a
financing statement that:
(A) identifies, by its file number, the initial financing
statement to which it relates; and
(B) indicates that it is a continuation statement for, or that it
is filed to continue the effectiveness of, the identified
financing statement.
(28) "Debtor" means:
(A) a person having an interest, other than a security interest
or other lien, in the collateral, whether or not the person is an
obligor;
(B) a seller of accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles,
or promissory notes; or
(C) a consignee.
(29) "Deposit account" means a demand, time, savings,
passbook, or similar account maintained with a bank. The term
does not include investment property or accounts evidenced by
an instrument.
(30) "Document" means a document of title or a receipt of the
type described in IC 26-1-7-201(b).
(31) "Electronic chattel paper" means chattel paper evidenced
by a record or records consisting of information stored in an
electronic medium.
(32) "Encumbrance" means a right, other than an ownership
interest, in real property. The term includes mortgages and other
liens on real property.
(33) "Equipment" means goods other than inventory, farm
products, or consumer goods.
(34) "Farm products" means goods, other than standing timber,
with respect to which the debtor is engaged in a farming
operation and which are:
(A) crops grown, growing, or to be grown, including:
(i) crops produced on trees, vines, and bushes; and
(ii) aquatic goods produced in aquacultural operations;
(B) livestock, born or unborn, including aquatic goods
produced in aquacultural operations;
(C) supplies used or produced in a farming operation; or
(D) products of crops or livestock in their unmanufactured
states.
(35) "Farming operation" means raising, cultivating,
propagating, fattening, grazing, or any other farming, livestock,
or aquacultural operation.
(36) "File number" means the number assigned to an initial
financing statement pursuant to IC 26-1-9.1-519(a).
(37) "Filing office" means an office designated in
IC 26-1-9.1-501 as the place to file a financing statement.
(38) "Filing-office rule" means a rule adopted pursuant to
IC 26-1-9.1-526.
(39) "Financing statement" means a record or records composed
of an initial financing statement and any filed record relating to
the initial financing statement.
(40) "Fixture filing" means the filing of a financing statement
covering goods that are or are to become fixtures and satisfying
IC 26-1-9.1-502(a) and IC 26-1-9.1-502(b). The term includes
the filing of a financing statement covering goods of a
transmitting utility which are or are to become fixtures.
(41) "Fixtures" means goods that have become so related to
particular real property that an interest in them arises under real
property law.
(42) "General intangible" means any personal property,
including things in action, other than accounts, chattel paper,
commercial tort claims, deposit accounts, documents, goods,
instruments, investment property, letter-of-credit rights, letters
of credit, money, and oil, gas, or other minerals before
extraction. The term includes payment intangibles and software.
(43) "Good faith" means honesty in fact and the observance of
reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing.
(44) "Goods" means all things that are movable when a security
interest attaches. The term includes (i) fixtures, (ii) standing
timber that is to be cut and removed under a conveyance or
contract for sale, (iii) the unborn young of animals, (iv) crops
grown, growing, or to be grown, even if the crops are produced
on trees, vines, or bushes, and (v) manufactured homes. The
term also includes a computer program embedded in goods and
any supporting information provided in connection with a
transaction relating to the program if (i) the program is
associated with the goods in such a manner that it customarily
is considered part of the goods, or (ii) by becoming the owner
of the goods, a person acquires a right to use the program in
connection with the goods. The term does not include a
computer program embedded in goods that consist solely of the
medium in which the program is embedded. The term also does
not include accounts, chattel paper, commercial tort claims,
deposit accounts, documents, general intangibles, instruments,
investment property, letter-of-credit rights, letters of credit,
money, or oil, gas, or other minerals before extraction.
(45) "Governmental unit" means a subdivision, agency,
department, county, parish, municipality, or other unit of the
government of the United States, a state, or a foreign country.
The term includes an organization having a separate corporate
existence if the organization is eligible to issue debt on which
interest is exempt from income taxation under the laws of the
United States.
(46) "Health-care-insurance receivable" means an interest in or
claim under a policy of insurance that is a right to payment of
a monetary obligation for health-care goods or services
provided.
(47) "Instrument" means a negotiable instrument or any other
writing that evidences a right to the payment of a monetary
obligation, is not itself a security agreement or lease, and is of
a type that in the ordinary course of business is transferred by
delivery with any necessary endorsement or assignment. The
term does not include (i) investment property, (ii) letters of
credit, or (iii) writings that evidence a right to payment arising
out of the use of a credit or charge card or information
contained on or for use with the card.
(48) "Inventory" means goods, other than farm products, that:
(A) are leased by a person as lessor;
(B) are held by a person for sale or lease or to be furnished
under a contract of service;
(C) are furnished by a person under a contract of service; or
(D) consist of raw materials, work in process, or materials
used or consumed in a business.
(49) "Investment property" means a security, whether
certificated or uncertificated, security entitlement, securities
account, commodity contract, or commodity account.
(50) "Jurisdiction of organization", with respect to a registered
organization, means the jurisdiction under whose law the
organization is organized.
(51) "Letter-of-credit right" means a right to payment or
performance under a letter of credit, whether or not the
beneficiary has demanded or is at the time entitled to demand
payment or performance. The term does not include the right of
a beneficiary to demand payment or performance under a letter
of credit.
(52) "Lien creditor" means:
(A) a creditor that has acquired a lien on the property
involved by attachment, levy, or the like;
(B) an assignee for benefit of creditors from the time of
assignment;
(C) a trustee in bankruptcy from the date of the filing of the
petition; or
(D) a receiver in equity from the time of appointment.
(53) "Manufactured home" means a structure, transportable in
one (1) or more sections, which, in the traveling mode, is eight
(8) body feet or more in width or forty (40) body feet or more
in length, or, when erected on site, is three hundred twenty
(320) or more square feet, and which is built on a permanent
chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without
a permanent foundation when connected to the required
utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning,
and electrical systems contained therein. The term includes any
structure that meets all of the requirements of this subdivision
except the size requirements, and with respect to which the
manufacturer voluntarily files a certification required by the
United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
and complies with the standards established under Title 42 of
the United States Code.
(54) "Manufactured-home transaction" means a secured
transaction:
(A) that creates a purchase-money security interest in a
manufactured home, other than a manufactured home held
as inventory; or
(B) in which a manufactured home, other than a
manufactured home held as inventory, is the primary
collateral.
(55) "Mortgage" means a consensual interest in real property,
including fixtures, that secures payment or performance of an
obligation.
(56) "New debtor" means a person that becomes bound as
debtor under IC 26-1-9.1-203(d) by a security agreement
previously entered into by another person.
(57) "New value" means (i) money, (ii) money's worth in
property, services, or new credit, or (iii) release by a transferee
of an interest in property previously transferred to the
transferee. The term does not include an obligation substituted
for another obligation.
(58) "Noncash proceeds" means proceeds other than cash
proceeds.
(59) "Obligor" means a person that, with respect to an
obligation secured by a security interest in or an agricultural
lien on the collateral, (i) owes payment or other performance of
the obligation, (ii) has provided property other than the
collateral to secure payment or other performance of the
obligation, or (iii) is otherwise accountable in whole or in part
for payment or other performance of the obligation. The term
does not include issuers or nominated persons under a letter of
credit.
(60) "Original debtor", except as used in IC 26-1-9.1-310(c),
means a person that, as debtor, entered into a security
agreement to which a new debtor has become bound under
IC 26-1-9.1-203(d).
(61) "Payment intangible" means a general intangible under
which the account debtor's principal obligation is a monetary
obligation.
(62) "Person related to", with respect to an individual, means:
(A) the spouse of the individual;
(B) a brother, brother-in-law, sister, or sister-in-law of the
individual;
(C) an ancestor or lineal descendant of the individual or the
individual's spouse; or
(D) any other relative, by blood or marriage, of the
individual or the individual's spouse who shares the same
home with the individual.
(63) "Person related to", with respect to an organization, means:
(A) a person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by,
or under common control with the organization;
(B) an officer or director of, or a person performing similar
functions with respect to, the organization;
(C) an officer or director of, or a person performing similar
functions with respect to, a person described in clause (A);
(D) the spouse of an individual described in clause (A), (B),
or (C); or
(E) an individual who is related by blood or marriage to an
individual described in clause (A), (B), (C), or (D) and
shares the same home with the individual.
(64) "Proceeds", except as used in IC 26-1-9.1-609(b), means
the following property:
(A) Whatever is acquired upon the sale, lease, license,
exchange, or other disposition of collateral.
(B) Whatever is collected on, or distributed on account of,
collateral.
(C) Rights arising out of collateral.
(D) To the extent of the value of collateral, claims arising
out of the loss, nonconformity, or interference with the use
of, defects or infringement of rights in, or damage to, the
collateral.
(E) To the extent of the value of collateral and to the extent
payable to the debtor or the secured party, insurance payable
by reason of the loss or nonconformity of, defects or
infringement of rights in, or damage to, the collateral.
(65) "Promissory note" means an instrument that evidences a
promise to pay a monetary obligation, does not evidence an
order to pay, and does not contain an acknowledgment by a
bank that the bank has received for deposit a sum of money or
funds.
(66) "Proposal" means a record authenticated by a secured party
that includes the terms on which the secured party is willing to
accept collateral in full or partial satisfaction of the obligation
it secures pursuant to IC 26-1-9.1-620, IC 26-1-9.1-621, and
IC 26-1-9.1-622.
(67) "Public-finance transaction" means a secured transaction
in connection with which:
(A) debt securities are issued;
(B) all or a portion of the securities issued have an initial
stated maturity of at least twenty (20) years; and
(C) the debtor, obligor, secured party, account debtor, or
other person obligated on collateral, assignor or assignee of
a secured obligation, or assignor or assignee of a security
interest is a state or a governmental unit of a state.
(68) "Pursuant to commitment", with respect to an advance
made or other value given by a secured party, means pursuant
to the secured party's obligation, whether or not a subsequent
event of default or other event not within the secured party's
control has relieved or may relieve the secured party from its
obligation.
(69) "Record", except as used in "for record", "of record",
"record or legal title", and "record owner", means information
that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an
electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable
form.
(70) "Registered organization" means an organization organized
solely under the law of a single state or the United States and as
to which the state or the United States must maintain a public
record showing the organization to have been organized.
(71) "Secondary obligor" means an obligor to the extent that:
(A) the obligor's obligation is secondary; or
(B) the obligor has a right of recourse with respect to an
obligation secured by collateral against the debtor, another
obligor, or property of either.
(72) "Secured party" means:
(A) a person in whose favor a security interest is created or
provided for under a security agreement, whether or not any
obligation to be secured is outstanding;
(B) a person that holds an agricultural lien;
(C) a consignor;
(D) a person to which accounts, chattel paper, payment
intangibles, or promissory notes have been sold;
(E) a trustee, indenture trustee, agent, collateral agent, or
other representative in whose favor a security interest or
agricultural lien is created or provided for; or
(F) a person that holds a security interest arising under
IC 26-1-2-401, IC 26-1-2-505, IC 26-1-2-711(3),
IC 26-1-2.1-508(5), IC 26-1-4-210, or IC 26-1-5.1-118.
(73) "Security agreement" means an agreement that creates or
provides for a security interest.
(74) "Send", in connection with a record or notification, means:
(A) to deposit in the mail, deliver for transmission, or
transmit by any other usual means of communication, with
postage or cost of transmission provided for, addressed to
any address reasonable under the circumstances; or
(B) to cause the record or notification to be received within
the time that it would have been received if properly sent
under clause (A).
(75) "Software" means a computer program and any supporting
information provided in connection with a transaction relating
to the program. The term does not include a computer program
that is included in the definition of goods.
(76) "State" means a state of the United States, the District of
Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any
territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the
United States.
(77) "Supporting obligation" means a letter-of-credit right or
secondary obligation that supports the payment or performance
of an account, chattel paper, a document, a general intangible,
an instrument, or investment property.
(78) "Tangible chattel paper" means chattel paper evidenced by
a record or records consisting of information that is inscribed on
a tangible medium.
(79) "Termination statement" means an amendment of a
financing statement that:
(A) identifies, by its file number, the initial financing
statement to which it relates; and
(B) indicates either that it is a termination statement or that
the identified financing statement is no longer effective.
(80) "Transmitting utility" means a person primarily engaged in
the business of:
(A) operating a railroad, subway, street railway, or trolley
bus;
(B) transmitting communications electrically,
electromagnetically, or by light;
(C) transmitting goods by pipeline or sewer; or
(D) transmitting or producing and transmitting electricity,
steam, gas, or water.
(b) "Control" as provided in IC 26-1-7-106 and the following
definitions outside IC 26-1-9.1 apply to IC 26-1-9.1:
"Applicant" IC 26-1-5.1-102.
"Beneficiary" IC 26-1-5.1-102.
"Broker" IC 26-1-8.1-102.
"Certificated security" IC 26-1-8.1-102.
"Check" IC 26-1-3.1-104.
"Clearing corporation" IC 26-1-8.1-102.
"Contract for sale" IC 26-1-2-106.
"Customer" IC 26-1-4-104.
"Entitlement holder" IC 26-1-8.1-102.
"Financial asset" IC 26-1-8.1-102.
"Holder in due course" IC 26-1-3.1-302.
"Issuer" (with respect to a letter of credit or letter-of-credit
right) IC 26-1-5.1-102.
"Issuer" (with respect to a security) IC 26-1-8.1-201.
"Issuer" (with respect to documents of title) IC 26-1-7-102.
"Lease" IC 26-1-2.1-103.
"Lease agreement" IC 26-1-2.1-103.
"Lease contract" IC 26-1-2.1-103.
"Leasehold interest" IC 26-1-2.1-103.
"Lessee" IC 26-1-2.1-103.
"Lessee in ordinary course of business" IC 26-1-2.1-103.
"Lessor" IC 26-1-2.1-103.
"Lessor's residual interest" IC 26-1-2.1-103.
"Letter of credit" IC 26-1-5.1-102.
"Merchant" IC 26-1-2-104.
"Negotiable instrument" IC 26-1-3.1-104.
"Nominated person" IC 26-1-5.1-102.
"Note" IC 26-1-3.1-104.
"Proceeds of a letter of credit" IC 26-1-5.1-114.
"Prove" IC 26-1-3.1-103.
"Sale" IC 26-1-2-106.
"Securities account" IC 26-1-8.1-501.
"Securities intermediary" IC 26-1-8.1-102.
"Security" IC 26-1-8.1-102.
"Security certificate" IC 26-1-8.1-102.
"Security entitlement" IC 26-1-8.1-102.
"Uncertificated security" IC 26-1-8.1-102.
(c) IC 26-1-1 contains general definitions and principles of
construction and interpretation applicable throughout IC 26-1-9.1.
As added by P.L.57-2000, SEC.45. Amended by P.L.143-2007,
SEC.65; P.L.108-2009, SEC.3.
IC 26-1-9.1-102.5
"Take free"; "takes free"; "takes the money free"; "takes the
funds free"
Sec. 102.5. As used in this chapter, "take free", "takes free",
"takes the money free", and "takes the funds free", when used in
conjunction with a security interest in collateral which is transferred,
means that following the transfer the collateral is no longer
encumbered by the security interest and the security interest is
terminated with respect to the transferred collateral.
As added by P.L.192-2003, SEC.1.
IC 26-1-9.1-103
Purchase-money security interest; application of payment; burden
of establishing
Sec. 103. (a) In this section:
(1) "Purchase-money collateral" means goods or software that
secures a purchase-money obligation incurred with respect to
that collateral.
(2) "Purchase-money obligation" means an obligation of an
obligor incurred as all or part of the price of the collateral or for
value given to enable the debtor to acquire rights in, or the use
of the collateral if the value is in fact so used.
(b) A security interest in goods is a purchase-money security
interest:
(1) to the extent that the goods are purchase-money collateral
with respect to that security interest;
(2) if the security interest is in inventory that is or was
purchase-money collateral, also to the extent that the security
interest secures a purchase-money obligation incurred with
respect to other inventory in which the secured party holds or
held a purchase-money security interest; and
(3) also to the extent that the security interest secures a
purchase-money obligation incurred with respect to software in
which the secured party holds or held a purchase-money
security interest.
(c) A security interest in software is a purchase-money security
interest to the extent that the security interest also secures a
purchase-money obligation incurred with respect to goods in which
the secured party holds or held a purchase-money security interest if:
(1) the debtor acquired its interest in the software in an
integrated transaction in which it acquired an interest in the
goods; and
(2) the debtor acquired its interest in the software for the
principal purpose of using the software in the goods.
(d) The security interest of a consignor in goods that are the
subject of a consignment is a purchase-money security interest in
inventory.
(e) If the extent to which a security interest is a purchase-money
security interest depends on the application of a payment to a
particular obligation, the payment must be applied:
(1) in accordance with any reasonable method of application to
which the parties agree;
(2) in the absence of the parties' agreement to a reasonable
method, in accordance with any intention of the obligor
manifested at or before the time of payment; or
(3) in the absence of an agreement to a reasonable method and
a timely manifestation of the obligor's intention, in the
following order:
(A) To obligations that are not secured.
(B) If more than one (1) obligation is secured, to obligations
secured by purchase-money security interests in the order in
which those obligations were incurred.
(f) A purchase-money security interest does not lose its status as
such, even if:
(1) the purchase-money collateral also secures an obligation
that is not a purchase-money obligation;
(2) collateral that is not purchase-money collateral also secures
the purchase-money obligation; or
(3) the purchase-money obligation has been renewed,
refinanced, consolidated, or restructured.
(g) A secured party claiming a purchase-money security interest
has the burden of establishing the extent to which the security
interest is a purchase-money security interest.
As added by P.L.57-2000, SEC.45.
IC 26-1-9.1-104
Control of deposit account
Sec. 104. (a) 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 an
authenticated record that the bank will comply with instructions
originated by the secured party directing disposition of the
funds in the account without further consent by the debtor; or
(3) the secured party becomes the bank's customer with respect
to the deposit account.
(b) A secured party that has satisfied subsection (a) has control,
even if the debtor retains the right to direct the disposition of funds
from the deposit account.
As added by P.L.57-2000, SEC.45.
IC 26-1-9.1-105
Control of electronic chattel paper
Sec. 105. A secured party has control of electronic chattel paper
if the record or records comprising the chattel paper are created,
stored, and assigned in such a manner that:
(1) a single authoritative copy of the record or records exists
which is unique, identifiable and, except as otherwise provided
in subdivisions (4), (5), and (6), unalterable;
(2) the authoritative copy identifies the secured party as the
assignee of the record or records;
(3) the authoritative copy is communicated to and maintained
by the secured party or its designated custodian;
(4) copies or revisions that add or change an identified assignee
of the authoritative copy can be made only with the
participation of the secured party;
(5) each copy of the authoritative copy and any copy of a copy
is readily identifiable as a copy that is not the authoritative
copy; and
(6) any revision of the authoritative copy is readily identifiable
as an authorized or unauthorized revision.
As added by P.L.57-2000, SEC.45.
IC 26-1-9.1-106
Control of investment property
Sec. 106. (a) A person has control of a certificated security,
uncertificated security, or security entitlement as provided in
IC 26-1-8.1-106.
(b) A secured party has control of a commodity contract if:
(1) the secured party is the commodity intermediary with which
the commodity contract is carried; or
(2) the commodity customer, secured party, and commodity
intermediary have agreed that the commodity intermediary will
apply any value distributed on account of the commodity
contract as directed by the secured party without further consent
by the commodity customer.
(c) A secured party having control of all security entitlements or
commodity contracts carried in a securities account or commodity
account has control over the securities account or commodity
account.
As added by P.L.57-2000, SEC.45.
IC 26-1-9.1-107
Control of letter-of-credit right
Sec. 107. 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
IC 26-1-5.1-114(c) or otherwise applicable law or practice.
As added by P.L.57-2000, SEC.45.
IC 26-1-9.1-108
Sufficiency of description
Sec. 108. (a) 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) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d), a description
of collateral reasonably identifies the collateral if it identifies the
collateral by:
(1) specific listing;
(2) category;
(3) except as otherwise provided in subsection (e), a type of
collateral defined in IC 26-1;
(4) quantity;
(5) computational or allocational formula or procedure; or
(6) except as otherwise provided in subsection (c), any other
method, if the identity of the collateral is objectively
determinable.
(c) A description of collateral as "all the debtor's assets" or "all
the debtor's personal property" or using words of similar import does
not reasonably identify the collateral.
(d) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (e), a description
of a security entitlement, securities account, or commodity account
is sufficient if it describes:
(1) the collateral by those terms or as investment property; or
(2) the underlying financial asset or commodity contract.
(e) A description only by type of collateral defined in IC 26-1 is
an insufficient description of:
(1) a commercial tort claim; or
(2) in a consumer transaction, consumer goods, a security
entitlement, a securities account, or a commodity account.
As added by P.L.57-2000, SEC.45.
IC 26-1-9.1-109
Scope
Sec. 109. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (c) and
(d), IC 26-1-9.1 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 accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, or
promissory notes;
(4) a consignment;
(5) a security interest arising under IC 26-1-2-401,
IC 26-1-2-505, IC 26-1-2-711(3), or IC 26-1-2.1-508(5), as
provided in IC 26-1-9.1-110;
(6) a security interest arising under IC 26-1-4-210 or
IC 26-1-5.1-118; and
(7) a transfer of an interest or a claim in a contractual right of
a person to receive commissions or other compensation payable
by an insurer (as defined in IC 27-1-2-3).
(b) The application of IC 26-1-9.1 to a security interest in a
secured obligation is not affected by the fact that the obligation is
itself secured by a transaction or interest to which IC 26-1-9.1 does
not apply.
(c) IC 26-1-9.1 does not apply to the extent that:
(1) a statute, regulation, or treaty of the United States preempts
IC 26-1-9.1; or
(2) the rights of a transferee beneficiary or nominated person
under a letter of credit are independent and superior under
IC 26-1-5.1-114.
(d) IC 26-1-9.1 does not apply to:
(1) a landlord's lien, other than an agricultural lien;
(2) a lien, other than an agricultural lien, given by statute or
other rule of law for services or materials, but IC 26-1-9.1-333
applies with respect to priority of the lien;
(3) an assignment of a claim for wages, salary, or other
compensation of an employee;
(4) a sale of accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, or
promissory notes as part of a sale of the business out of which
they arose;
(5) an assignment of accounts, chattel paper, payment
intangibles, or promissory notes that is for the purpose of
collection only;
(6) an assignment of a right to payment under a contract to an
assignee that is also obligated to perform under the contract;
(7) an assignment of a single account, payment intangible, or
promissory note to an assignee in full or partial satisfaction of
a preexisting indebtedness;
(8) a transfer of an interest in or an assignment of a claim under
a policy of insurance, other than a transfer described in
subsection (a)(7), or an assignment by or to a health-care
provider of a health-care-insurance receivable and any
subsequent assignment of the right to payment, but
IC 26-1-9.1-315 and IC 26-1-9.1-322 apply with respect to
proceeds and priorities in proceeds;
(9) an assignment of a right represented by a judgment, other
than a judgment taken on a right to payment that was collateral;
(10) a right of recoupment or set-off, but:
(A) IC 26-1-9.1-340 applies with respect to the effectiveness
of rights of recoupment or set-off against deposit accounts;
and
(B) IC 26-1-9.1-404 applies with respect to defenses or
claims of an account debtor;
(11) the creation or transfer of an interest in or lien on real
property, including a lease or rents thereunder, except to the
extent that provision is made for:
(A) liens on real property in IC 26-1-9.1-203 and
IC 26-1-9.1-308;
(B) fixtures in IC 26-1-9.1-334;
(C) fixture filings in IC 26-1-9.1-501, IC 26-1-9.1-502,
IC 26-1-9.1-512, IC 26-1-9.1-516, and IC 26-1-9.1-519; and
(D) security agreements covering personal and real property
in IC 26-1-9.1-604;
(12) an assignment of a claim arising in tort, other than a
commercial tort claim, but IC 26-1-9.1-315 and IC 26-1-9.1-322
apply with respect to proceeds and priorities in proceeds;
(13) an assignment of a deposit account in a consumer
transaction, but IC 26-1-9.1-315 and IC 26-1-9.1-322 apply with
respect to proceeds and priorities in proceeds;
(14) the creation, perfection, priority, or enforcement of a
security interest created by the state, another state, or a foreign
country, or a governmental unit of the state, another state or a
foreign country;
(15) a pledge of revenues, other money, or property made under
IC 5-1-14-4;
(16) a claim or right to receive compensation for injuries or
sickness as described in 26 U.S.C. 104(a)(1) or (a)(2); or
(17) a claim or right to receive benefits under a special need
trust as described in 42 U.S.C. 1396p(d)(4).
As added by P.L.57-2000, SEC.45. Amended by P.L.165-2001,
SEC.1.
IC 26-1-9.1-110
Security interests arising under IC 26-1-2 or IC 26-1-2.1
Sec. 110. A security interest arising under IC 26-1-2-401,
IC 26-1-2-505, IC 26-1-2-711(3), or IC 26-1-2.1-508(5) is subject to
IC 26-1-9.1. However, until the debtor obtains possession of the
goods:
(1) the security interest is enforceable, even if
IC 26-1-9.1-203(b)(3) has not been satisfied;
(2) filing is not required to perfect the security interest;
(3) the rights of the secured party after default by the debtor are
governed by IC 26-1-2 or IC 26-1-2.1; and
(4) the security interest has priority over a conflicting security
interest created by the debtor.
As added by P.L.57-2000, SEC.45.
IC 26-1-9.1-201
General effectiveness of security agreement
Sec. 201. (a) Except as otherwise provided in IC 26-1, a security
agreement is effective according to its terms between the parties,
against purchasers of the collateral, and against creditors.
(b) A transaction subject to this article is subject to any applicable
rule of law that establishes a different rule for consumers.
(c) In case of conflict between IC 26-1-9.1 and a rule of law,
statute, or regulation described in subsection (b), the rule of law,
statute, or regulation controls. Failure to comply with a statute or
regulation described in subsection (b) has only the effect the statute
or regulation specifies.
(d) IC 26-1-9.1 does not:
(1) validate any rate, charge, agreement, or practice that violates
a rule of law, statute, or regulation described in subsection (b);
or
(2) extend the application of the rule of law, statute, or
regulation to a transaction not otherwise subject to it.
As added by P.L.57-2000, SEC.45.
IC 26-1-9.1-202
Title to collateral immaterial
Sec. 202. 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.
As added by P.L.57-2000, SEC.45.
IC 26-1-9.1-203
Attachment and enforceability of security interest; proceeds;
supporting obligations; formal requisites
Sec. 203. (a) 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) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (c) through (i), a
security interest is enforceable against the debtor and third parties
with respect to the collateral only if:
(1) value has been given;
(2) the debtor has rights in the collateral or the power to transfer
rights in the collateral to a secured party; and
(3) one (1) of the following conditions is met:
(A) The debtor has authenticated a security agreement that
provides a description of the collateral and, if the security
interest covers timber to be cut, a description of the land
concerned.
(B) The collateral is not a certificated security and is in the
possession of the secured party under IC 26-1-9.1-313
pursuant to the debtor's security agreement.
(C) The collateral is a certificated security in registered form
and the security certificate has been delivered to the secured
party under IC 26-1-8.1-301 pursuant to the debtor's security
agreement.
(D) The collateral is deposit accounts, electronic chattel
paper, investment property, letter-of-credit rights, or
electronic documents, and the secured party has control
under IC 26-1-7-106, IC 26-1-9.1-104, IC 26-1-9.1-105,
IC 26-1-9.1-106, or IC 26-1-9.1-107 pursuant to the debtor's
security agreement.
(c) Subsection (b) is subject to IC 26-1-4