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FL Stat § 679.520 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations|Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions|Part V - Filing (Ss. 679.5011-679.527)|679.520 - Acceptance and refusal to accept record.

679.520 Acceptance and refusal to accept record.—(1) A filing office shall refuse to accept a record for filing for a reason set forth in s. 679.516(2) and may refuse to accept a record for filing only for a reason set forth in s. 679.516(2).(2) If a filing office refuses to accept a record for filing, it shall communicate to the person that presented the record the fact of and reason for the refusal and the date and time the record would have been filed had the filing office accepted it. The communication must be made at the time and in the manner prescribed by any filing-office rule but, in the case of a filing office described in s. 679.5011(1)(b), in no event more than 3 business days after the filing office receives the record, if practical.(3) A filed financing statement satisfying s. 679.5021(1) and (2) is effective, even if the filing office is required to refuse to accept it for filing under subsection (1). However, s. 679.338 applies to a filed financing statement providing information described in s. 679.516(2)(d) which is incorrect at the time the financing statement is filed.(4) If a record communicated to a filing office provides information that relates to more than one debtor, this part applies as to each debtor separately.History.—s. 6, ch. 2001-198; s. 150, ch. 2004-5.
FL Stat § 679.521 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations|Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions|Part V - Filing (Ss. 679.5011-679.527)|679.521 - Uniform form of written financing statement and amendment.

679.521 Uniform form of written financing statement and amendment.—The Secretary of State shall develop or approve acceptable forms for use in filing under this chapter. Such forms must be in accord with the requirements of Florida law, including s. 201.22. The secretary may, if he or she finds that such forms meet these requirements, approve the use of a standard national form for this purpose.History.—s. 6, ch. 2001-198.
FL Stat § 679.522 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations|Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions|Part V - Filing (Ss. 679.5011-679.527)|679.522 - Maintenance and destruction of records.

679.522 Maintenance and destruction of records.—(1) The filing office shall maintain a record of the information provided in a filed financing statement for at least 1 year after the effectiveness of the financing statement has lapsed under s. 679.515 with respect to all secured parties of record. The record must be retrievable by using the name of the debtor and by using the file number, or official records book and page number if a fixture filing, assigned to the initial financing statement to which the record relates.(2) Except to the extent that chapter 119 governing disposition of public records provides otherwise, the filing office immediately may destroy any written record evidencing a financing statement. However, if the filing office destroys a written record, it shall maintain another record of the financing statement which complies with subsection (1).History.—s. 6, ch. 2001-198.
FL Stat § 679.523 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations|Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions|Part V - Filing (Ss. 679.5011-679.527)|679.523 - Information from filing office; sale or license of records.

679.523 Information from filing office; sale or license of records.—(1) If a person files a written record, the filing office shall make available, on the database, an image of the record showing the number assigned to the record pursuant to s. 679.519(1)(a) and the date of the filing of the record or, if requested, send to the person a separate printed acknowledgment indicating the debtor’s name, the number assigned to the record pursuant to s. 679.519(1)(a), and the date of the filing of the record.(2) If a person files a record other than a written record, the filing office described in s. 679.5011(1)(b) shall communicate to the person an image that provides:(a) The information in the record;(b) The number assigned to the record pursuant to s. 679.519(1)(a); and(c) The date and time of the filing of the record.(3) In complying with its duty under this chapter, the filing office described in s. 679.5011(1)(b) may communicate information in any medium. However, if requested, the filing office shall communicate information by issuing its written certificate or a record that can be admitted into evidence in the courts of the state without extrinsic evidence of its authenticity.(4) The filing office described in s. 679.5011(1)(b) shall perform the acts required by subsections (1) and (2) at the time and in the manner prescribed by any filing-office rule, but not later than 3 business days after the filing office receives the request, if practical.History.—s. 6, ch. 2001-198.
FL Stat § 679.524 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations|Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions|Part V - Filing (Ss. 679.5011-679.527)|679.524 - Delay by filing office.

679.524 Delay by filing office.—Delay by the filing office beyond a time limit prescribed by this part is excused if:(1) The delay is caused by interruption of communication or computer facilities, war, emergency conditions, failure of equipment, or other circumstances beyond control of the filing office; and(2) The filing office exercises reasonable diligence under the circumstances.History.—s. 6, ch. 2001-198.
FL Stat § 679.525 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations|Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions|Part V - Filing (Ss. 679.5011-679.527)|679.525 - Processing fees.

679.525 Processing fees.—(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (3), the nonrefundable processing fee for filing and indexing a record under this part, other than an initial financing statement of the kind described in s. 679.5021(3), is:(a) For filing an initial financing statement, $25 for the first page, which shall include the cost of filing a termination statement for the financing statement;(b) For filing an amendment, $12 for the first page;(c) For indexing by additional debtor, secured party, or assignee, $3 per additional name indexed;(d) For use of a nonapproved form, $5;(e) For each additional page attached to a record, $3;(f) For a certified copy of a financing statement and any and all associated amendments, $30;(g) For a photocopy of a filed record, $1 per page; and(h) For filing an initial financing statement, an additional $10 for the first page. Receipts from this fee shall be deposited into the General Revenue Fund and are not included in the receipts for purposes of calculating the contractor’s compensation for performing services regarding the Florida Secured Transaction Registry.(2) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (3), the fee for filing and indexing an initial financing statement of the kind described in s. 679.5021(3) is the amount specified in chapter 28.(3) This section does not require a fee with respect to a mortgage that is effective as a financing statement filed as a fixture filing or as a financing statement covering as-extracted collateral or timber to be cut under s. 679.5021(3). However, the recording and satisfaction fees that otherwise would be applicable to the mortgage apply.History.—s. 6, ch. 2001-198; s. 26, ch. 2007-134; s. 24, ch. 2009-72.
FL Stat § 679.526 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations|Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions|Part V - Filing (Ss. 679.5011-679.527)|679.526 - Filing-office rules.

679.526 Filing-office rules.—The Department of State may adopt and publish rules to administer this chapter. The filing-office rules must be:(1) Consistent with this chapter.(2) Adopted and published in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act.History.—s. 6, ch. 2001-198.
FL Stat § 679.601 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations|Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions|Part VI - Default (Ss. 679.601-679.628)|679.601 - Rights after default; judicial enforcement; consignor or buyer of accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, or promissory notes.

679.601 Rights after default; judicial enforcement; consignor or buyer of accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, or promissory notes.—(1) After default, a secured party has the rights provided in this part and, except as otherwise provided in s. 679.602, those provided by agreement of the parties. A secured party:(a) May reduce a claim to judgment, foreclose, or otherwise enforce the claim, security interest, or agricultural lien by any available judicial procedure; and(b) If the collateral is documents, may proceed either as to the documents or as to the goods they cover.(2) A secured party in possession of collateral or control of collateral under s. 679.1041, s. 679.1051, s. 679.1061, or s. 679.1071 has the rights and duties provided in s. 679.2071.(3) The rights under subsections (1) and (2) are cumulative and may be exercised simultaneously.(4) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (7) and s. 679.605, after default, a debtor and an obligor have the rights provided in this part and by agreement of the parties.(5) If a secured party has reduced its claim to judgment, the lien of any levy that may be made upon the collateral by virtue of an execution based upon the judgment relates back to the earliest of:(a) The date of perfection of the security interest or agricultural lien in the collateral;(b) The date of filing a financing statement covering the collateral; or(c) Any date specified in a statute under which the agricultural lien was created.(6) A sale pursuant to an execution is a foreclosure of the security interest or agricultural lien by judicial procedure within the meaning of this section. A secured party may purchase at the sale and thereafter hold the collateral free of any other requirements of this chapter.(7) Except as otherwise provided in s. 679.607(3), this part imposes no duties upon a secured party that is a consignor or is a buyer of accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, or promissory notes.History.—s. 7, ch. 2001-198.
FL Stat § 679.602 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations|Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions|Part VI - Default (Ss. 679.601-679.628)|679.602 - Waiver and variance of rights and duties.

679.602 Waiver and variance of rights and duties.—Except as otherwise provided in s. 679.624, to the extent that they give rights to a debtor or obligor and impose duties on a secured party, the debtor or obligor may not waive or vary the rules stated in the following listed sections:(1) Section 679.2071(2)(d)3., which deals with use and operation of the collateral by the secured party;(2) Section 679.210, which deals with requests for an accounting and requests concerning a list of collateral and statement of account;(3) Section 679.607(3), which deals with collection and enforcement of collateral;(4) Sections 679.608(1) and 679.615(3) to the extent that they deal with application or payment of noncash proceeds of collection, enforcement, or disposition;(5) Sections 679.608(1) and 679.615(4) to the extent that they require accounting for or payment of surplus proceeds of collateral;(6) Section 679.609 to the extent that it imposes upon a secured party that takes possession of collateral without judicial process the duty to do so without breach of the peace;(7) Sections 679.610(2), 679.611, 679.613, and 679.614, which deal with disposition of collateral;(8) Section 679.615(6), which deals with calculation of a deficiency or surplus when a disposition is made to the secured party, a person related to the secured party, or a secondary obligor;(9) Section 679.616, which deals with explanation of the calculation of a surplus or deficiency;(10) Sections 679.620, 679.621, and 679.622, which deal with acceptance of collateral in satisfaction of obligation;(11) Section 679.623, which deals with redemption of collateral;(12) Section 679.624, which deals with permissible waivers; and(13) Sections 679.625 and 679.626, which deal with the secured party’s liability for failure to comply with this article.History.—s. 7, ch. 2001-198.
FL Stat § 679.603 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations|Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions|Part VI - Default (Ss. 679.601-679.628)|679.603 - Agreement on standards concerning rights and duties.

679.603 Agreement on standards concerning rights and duties.—(1) The parties may determine by agreement the standards measuring the fulfillment of the rights of a debtor or obligor and the duties of a secured party under a rule stated in s. 679.602 if the standards are not manifestly unreasonable.(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to the duty under s. 679.609 to refrain from breaching the peace.History.—s. 7, ch. 2001-198.
FL Stat § 679.604 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations|Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions|Part VI - Default (Ss. 679.601-679.628)|679.604 - Procedure if security agreement covers real property or fixtures.

679.604 Procedure if security agreement covers real property or fixtures.—(1) If a security agreement covers both personal and real property, a secured party may proceed:(a) Under this part as to the personal property without prejudicing any rights with respect to the real property; or(b) As to both the personal property and the real property in accordance with the rights with respect to the real property, in which case the other provisions of this part do not apply.(2) Subject to subsection (3), if a security agreement covers goods that are or become fixtures, a secured party may proceed:(a) Under this part; or(b) In accordance with the rights with respect to real property, in which case the other provisions of this part do not apply.(3) Subject to the other provisions of this part, if a secured party holding a security interest in fixtures has priority over all owners and encumbrancers of the real property, the secured party, after default, may remove the collateral from the real property. The secured party shall give reasonable notification of its intent to remove the collateral to all persons entitled to reimbursement under subsection (4).(4) A secured party that removes collateral shall promptly reimburse any encumbrancer or owner of the real property, other than the debtor, for the cost of repair of any physical injury caused by the removal. The secured party need not reimburse the encumbrancer or owner for any diminution in value of the real property caused by the absence of the goods removed or by any necessity of replacing them. A person entitled to reimbursement may refuse permission to remove until the secured party gives adequate assurance for the performance of the obligation to reimburse. This subsection does not prohibit a secured party and the person entitled to reimbursement from entering into an authenticated record providing for the removal of fixtures and reimbursement for any damage caused thereby.History.—s. 7, ch. 2001-198.
FL Stat § 679.605 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations|Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions|Part VI - Default (Ss. 679.601-679.628)|679.605 - Unknown debtor or secondary obligor.

679.605 Unknown debtor or secondary obligor.—A secured party does not owe a duty based on its status as secured party:(1) To a person who is a debtor or obligor, unless the secured party knows:(a) That the person is a debtor or obligor;(b) The identity of the person; and(c) How to communicate with the person; or(2) To a secured party or lienholder that has filed a financing statement against a person, unless the secured party knows:(a) That the person is a debtor; and(b) The identity of the person.History.—s. 7, ch. 2001-198.
FL Stat § 679.606 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations|Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions|Part VI - Default (Ss. 679.601-679.628)|679.606 - Time of default for agricultural lien.

679.606 Time of default for agricultural lien.—For purposes of this part, a default occurs in connection with an agricultural lien at the time the secured party becomes entitled to enforce the lien in accordance with the statute under which it was created.History.—s. 7, ch. 2001-198.
FL Stat § 679.607 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations|Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions|Part VI - Default (Ss. 679.601-679.628)|679.607 - Collection and enforcement by secured party.

679.607 Collection and enforcement by secured party.—(1) If so agreed, and in any event after default, a secured party:(a) May notify an account debtor or other person obligated on collateral to make payment or otherwise render performance to or for the benefit of the secured party;(b) May take any proceeds to which the secured party is entitled under s. 679.3151;(c) May enforce the obligations of an account debtor or other person obligated on collateral and exercise the rights of the debtor with respect to the obligation of the account debtor or other person obligated on collateral to make payment or otherwise render performance to the debtor, and with respect to any property that secures the obligations of the account debtor or other person obligated on the collateral;(d) If it holds a security interest in a deposit account perfected by control under s. 679.1041(1)(a), may apply the balance of the deposit account to the obligation secured by the deposit account; and(e) If it holds a security interest in a deposit account perfected by control under s. 679.1041(1)(b) or (c), may instruct the bank to pay the balance of the deposit account to or for the benefit of the secured party.(2) If necessary to enable a secured party to exercise under paragraph (1)(c) the right of a debtor to enforce a mortgage nonjudicially outside this state, the secured party may record in the office in which a record of the mortgage is recorded:(a) A copy of the security agreement that creates or provides for a security interest in the obligation secured by the mortgage; and(b) The secured party’s sworn affidavit in recordable form stating that:1. A default has occurred with respect to the obligation secured by the mortgage; and2. The secured party is entitled to enforce the mortgage nonjudicially outside this state.(3) A secured party shall proceed in a commercially reasonable manner if the secured party:(a) Undertakes to collect from or enforce an obligation of an account debtor or other person obligated on collateral; and(b) Is entitled to charge back uncollected collateral or otherwise to full or limited recourse against the debtor or a secondary obligor.(4) A secured party may deduct from the collections made pursuant to subsection (3) reasonable expenses of collection and enforcement, including reasonable attorney’s fees and legal expenses incurred by the secured party.(5) This section does not determine whether an account debtor, bank, or other person obligated on collateral owes a duty to a secured party.(6) Nothing in subsection (2) is intended to create a right of nonjudicial foreclosure in this state.History.—s. 7, ch. 2001-198; s. 16, ch. 2012-59.
FL Stat § 679.609 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations|Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions|Part VI - Default (Ss. 679.601-679.628)|679.609 - Secured party’s right to take possession after default.

679.609 Secured party’s right to take possession after default.—(1) After default, a secured party:(a) May take possession of the collateral; and(b) Without removal, may render equipment unusable and dispose of collateral on a debtor’s premises under s. 679.610.(2) A secured party may proceed under subsection (1):(a) Pursuant to judicial process; or(b) Without judicial process, if it proceeds without breach of the peace.(3) If so agreed, and in any event after default, a secured party may require the debtor to assemble the collateral and make it available to the secured party at a place to be designated by the secured party which is reasonably convenient to both parties.History.—s. 7, ch. 2001-198.
FL Stat § 679.610 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations|Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions|Part VI - Default (Ss. 679.601-679.628)|679.610 - Disposition of collateral after default.

679.610 Disposition of collateral after default.—(1) After default, a secured party may sell, lease, license, or otherwise dispose of any or all of the collateral in its present condition or following any commercially reasonable preparation or processing.(2) Every aspect of a disposition of collateral, including the method, manner, time, place, and other terms, must be commercially reasonable. If commercially reasonable, a secured party may dispose of collateral by public or private proceedings, by one or more contracts, as a unit or in parcels, and at any time and place and on any terms.(3) A secured party may purchase collateral:(a) At a public disposition; or(b) At a private disposition only if the collateral is of a kind that is customarily sold on a recognized market or the subject of widely distributed standard price quotations.(4) A contract for sale, lease, license, or other disposition includes the warranties relating to title, possession, quiet enjoyment, and the like which by operation of law accompany a voluntary disposition of property of the kind subject to the contract.(5) A secured party may disclaim or modify warranties under subsection (4):(a) In a manner that would be effective to disclaim or modify the warranties in a voluntary disposition of property of the kind subject to the contract of disposition; or(b) By communicating to the purchaser a record evidencing the contract for disposition and including an express disclaimer or modification of the warranties.(6) A record is sufficient to disclaim warranties under subsection (5) if it indicates that “there is no warranty relating to title, possession, quiet enjoyment, or the like in this disposition” or uses words of similar import.History.—s. 7, ch. 2001-198.
FL Stat § 679.612 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations|Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions|Part VI - Default (Ss. 679.601-679.628)|679.612 - Timeliness of notification before disposition of collateral.

679.612 Timeliness of notification before disposition of collateral.—(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2), whether a notification is sent within a reasonable time is a question of fact.(2) A notification of disposition sent after default and 10 days or more before the earliest time of disposition set forth in the notification is sent within a reasonable time before the disposition.History.—s. 7, ch. 2001-198.