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SC Code § 36-9-314 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 9 - Commercial Code - Secured Transactions|Section 36-9-314. Perfection by control.

 (a) A security interest in investment property, deposit accounts, letter-of-credit rights, electronic chattel paper, or electronic documents may be perfected by control of the collateral under Section 36-7-106, 36-9-104, 36-9-105, 36-9-106, or 36-9-107.  (b) A security interest in deposit accounts, electronic chattel paper, letter-of-credit rights, or electronic documents is perfected by control under Section 36-7-106, 36-9-104, 36-9-105, or 36-9-107 when the secured party obtains control and remains perfected by control only while the secured party retains control.  (c) A security interest in investment property is perfected by control under Section 36-9-106 from the time the secured party obtains control and remains perfected by control until:  (1) the secured party does not have control; and  (2) one of the following occurs:  (A) if the collateral is a certificated security, the debtor has or acquires possession of the security certificate;  (B) if the collateral is an uncertificated security, the issuer has registered or registers the debtor as the registered owner; or  (C) if the collateral is a security entitlement, the debtor is or becomes the entitlement holder.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 10.9-314; 1966 (54) 2716; 1988 Act No. 494, Section 5; 2001 Act No; 67, Section 12; 2014 Act No. 213 (S.343), Section 42, eff October 1, 2014.  Editor's Note  2014 Act No. 213, Section 51, provides as follows:  "SECTION 51. This act becomes effective on October 1, 2014. It applies to transactions entered into and events occurring after that date."  Effect of Amendment  2014 Act No. 213, Section 42, in subsections (a) and (b), inserted "electronic documents" and "36-7-106".
SC Code § 36-9-315 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 9 - Commercial Code - Secured Transactions|Section 36-9-315. Secured party ' s rights on disposition of collateral and in proceeds.

 (a) Except as otherwise provided in this article and in Section 36-2-403(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 the security interest or agricultural lien; and  (2) a security interest attaches to any identifiable proceeds of collateral.  (b) Proceeds that are commingled with other property are identifiable proceeds:  (1) if the proceeds are goods, to the extent provided by Section 36-9-336; and  (2) if the proceeds are not goods, to the extent that the secured party identifies the proceeds by a method of tracing, including application of equitable principles, that is permitted under law other than this article with respect to commingled property of the type involved.  (c) A security interest in proceeds is a perfected security interest if the security interest in the original collateral was perfected.  (d) A perfected security interest in proceeds becomes unperfected on the twenty-first day after the security interest attaches to the proceeds unless:  (1) the following conditions are satisfied:  (A) a filed financing statement covers the original collateral;  (B) the proceeds are collateral in which a security interest may be perfected by filing in the office in which the financing statement has been filed; and  (C) the proceeds are not acquired with cash proceeds;  (2) the proceeds are identifiable cash proceeds; or  (3) the security interest in the proceeds is perfected other than under subsection (c) when the security interest attaches to the proceeds or within twenty days thereafter.  (e) If a filed financing statement covers the original collateral, a security interest in proceeds which remains perfected under subsection (d)(1) becomes unperfected at the later of:  (1) when the effectiveness of the filed financing statement lapses under Section 36-9-515 or is terminated under Section 36-9-513; or  (2) the twenty-first day after the security interest attaches to the proceeds.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 10.9-315; 1966 (54) 2716; 1988 Act No. 494, Section 5; 2001 Act No; 67, Section 12.
SC Code § 36-9-318 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 9 - Commercial Code - Secured Transactions|Section 36-9-318. No interest retained in right to payment that is sold; rights and title of seller of account or chattel paper with respect to creditors and purchasers.

 (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 from, a debtor that has sold an account or chattel paper, while the buyer's security interest is unperfected, the debtor is deemed to have rights and title to the account or chattel paper identical to those the debtor sold.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 10.9-318; 1966 (54) 2716; 1988 Act No. 494, Section 5; 2001 Act No; 67, Section 12.
SC Code § 36-9-319 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 9 - Commercial Code - Secured Transactions|Section 36-9-319. Rights and title of consignee with respect to creditors and purchasers.

 (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 identical to those the consignor had or had power to transfer.  (b) For purposes of determining the rights of a creditor of a consignee, law other than this article determines the rights and title of a consignee while goods are in the consignee's possession if, under this part, a perfected security interest held by the consignor would have priority over the rights of the creditor.  HISTORY: 1978 Act No. 525; 1988 Act No. 494, Section 5; 1990 Act No. 340, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 526; 1996 Act No. 459, Section 58; 2001 Act No. 67, Section 12.
SC Code § 36-9-320 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 9 - Commercial Code - Secured Transactions|Section 36-9-320. Buyer of goods.

 (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 perfected and the buyer knows of its existence.  (b) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (e), a buyer of goods from a person who used or bought the goods for use primarily for personal, family, or household purposes takes free of a security interest, even if perfected, if the buyer buys:  (1) without knowledge of the security interest;  (2) for value;  (3) primarily for the buyer's personal, family, or household purposes; and  (4) before the filing of a financing statement covering the goods.  (c) To the extent that it affects the priority of a security interest over a buyer of goods under subsection (b), the period of effectiveness of a filing made in the jurisdiction in which the seller is located is governed by Section 36-9-316(a) and (b).  (d) A buyer in ordinary course of business buying oil, gas, or other minerals at the wellhead or minehead or after extraction takes free of an interest arising out of an encumbrance.  (e) Subsections (a) and (b) do not affect a security interest in goods in the possession of the secured party under Section 36-9-313.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 12.
SC Code § 36-9-321 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 9 - Commercial Code - Secured Transactions|Section 36-9-321. Licensee of general intangible and lessee of goods in ordinary course of business.

 (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 person in the business of licensing general intangibles of that kind. A person becomes a licensee in the ordinary course if the license to the person comports with the usual or customary practices in the kind of business in which the licensor is engaged or with the licensor's own usual or customary practices.  (b) A licensee in ordinary course of business takes its rights under a nonexclusive license free of a security interest in the general intangible created by the licensor, even if the security interest is perfected and the licensee knows of its existence.  (c) A lessee in ordinary course of business takes its leasehold interest free of a security interest in the goods created by the lessor, even if the security interest is perfected and the lessee knows of its existence.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 12.
SC Code § 36-9-323 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 9 - Commercial Code - Secured Transactions|Section 36-9-323. Future advances.

 (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c), for purposes of determining the priority of a perfected security interest under Section 36-9-322(a)(1), perfection of the security interest dates from the time an advance is made to the extent that the security interest secures an advance that:  (1) is made while the security interest is perfected only:  (A) under Section 36-9-309 when it attaches; or  (B) temporarily under Section 36-9-312(e), (f), or (g); and  (2) is not made pursuant to a commitment entered into before or while the security interest is perfected by a method other than under Section 36-9-309 or 36-9-312(e), (f), or (g).  (b) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c), a security interest is subordinate to the rights of a person that becomes a lien creditor to the extent that the security interest secures an advance made more than forty-five days after the person becomes a lien creditor unless the advance is made:  (1) without knowledge of the lien; or  (2) pursuant to a commitment entered into without knowledge of the lien.  (c) Subsections (a) and (b) do not apply to a security interest held by a secured party that is a buyer of accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, or promissory notes or a consignor.  (d) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (e), a buyer of goods other than a buyer in ordinary course of business takes free of a security interest to the extent that it secures advances made after the earlier of:  (1) the time the secured party acquires knowledge of the buyer's purchase; or  (2) forty-five days after the purchase.  (e) Subsection (d) does not apply if the advance is made pursuant to a commitment entered into without knowledge of the buyer's purchase and before the expiration of the forty-five-day period.  (f) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (g), a lessee of goods, other than a lessee in ordinary course of business, takes the leasehold interest free of a security interest to the extent that it secures advances made after the earlier of:  (1) the time the secured party acquires knowledge of the lease; or  (2) forty-five days after the lease contract becomes enforceable.  (g) Subsection (f) does not apply if the advance is made pursuant to a commitment entered into without knowledge of the lease and before the expiration of the forty-five-day period.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 12.
SC Code § 36-9-325 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 9 - Commercial Code - Secured Transactions|Section 36-9-325. Priority of security interests in transferred collateral.

 (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 person;  (2) the security interest created by the other person was perfected when the debtor acquired the collateral; and  (3) there is no period thereafter when the security interest is unperfected.  (b) Subsection (a) subordinates a security interest only if the security interest:  (1) otherwise would have priority solely under Section 36-9-322(a) or 36-9-324; or  (2) arose solely under Section 36-2-711(3) or 36-2A-508(5).  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 12.
SC Code § 36-9-326 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 9 - Commercial Code - Secured Transactions|Section 36-9-326. Priority of security interests created by new debtor.

 (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 solely by a filed financing statement that would be ineffective to perfect the security interest but for the application of Section 36-9-316(i)(1) or Section 36-9-508 is subordinate to a security interest in the same collateral which is perfected other than by such a filed financing statement.  (b) The other provisions of this part determine the priority among conflicting security interests in the same collateral perfected by filed financing statements described in subsection (a). However, if the security agreements to which a new debtor became bound as debtor were not entered into by the same original debtor, the conflicting security interests rank according to priority in time of the new debtor's having become bound.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 12; 2013 Act No. 96, Section 8, eff July 1, 2013.
SC Code § 36-9-327 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 9 - Commercial Code - Secured Transactions|Section 36-9-327. Priority of security interests in deposit account.

 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 Section 36-9-104 has priority over a conflicting security interest held by a secured party that does not have control.  (2) Except as otherwise provided in items (3) and (4), security interests perfected by control under Section 36-9-314 rank according to priority in time of obtaining control.  (3) Except as otherwise provided in item (4), a security interest held by the bank with which the deposit account is maintained has priority over a conflicting security interest held by another secured party.  (4) A security interest perfected by control under Section 36-9-104(a)(3) has priority over a security interest held by the bank with which the deposit account is maintained.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 12.
SC Code § 36-9-328 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 9 - Commercial Code - Secured Transactions|Section 36-9-328. Priority of security interests in investment property.

 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 Section 36-9-106 has priority over a security interest held by a secured party that does not have control of the investment property.  (2) Except as otherwise provided in items (3) and (4), conflicting security interests held by secured parties each of which has control under Section 36-9-106 rank according to priority in time of:  (A) if the collateral is a security, obtaining control;  (B) if the collateral is a security entitlement carried in a securities account and:  (i) if the secured party obtained control under Section 36-8-106(d)(1), the secured party's becoming the person for which the securities account is maintained;  (ii) if the secured party obtained control under Section 36-8-106(d)(2), the securities intermediary's agreement to comply with the secured party's entitlement orders with respect to security entitlements carried or to be carried in the securities account; or  (iii) if the secured party obtained control through another person under Section 36-8-106(d)(3), the time on which priority would be based under this paragraph if the other person were the secured party; or  (C) if the collateral is a commodity contract carried with a commodity intermediary, the satisfaction of the requirement for control specified in Section 36-9-106(b)(2) with respect to commodity contracts carried or to be carried with the commodity intermediary.  (3) A security interest held by a securities intermediary in a security entitlement or a securities account maintained with the securities intermediary has priority over a conflicting security interest held by another secured party.  (4) A security interest held by a commodity intermediary in a commodity contract or a commodity account maintained with the commodity intermediary has priority over a conflicting security interest held by another secured party.  (5) A security interest in a certificated security in registered form which is perfected by taking delivery under Section 36-9-313(a) and not by control under Section 36-9-314 has priority over a conflicting security interest perfected by a method other than control.  (6) Conflicting security interests created by a broker, securities intermediary, or commodity intermediary which are perfected without control under Section 36-9-106 rank equally.  (7) In all other cases, priority among conflicting security interests in investment property is governed by Sections 36-9-322 and 36-9-323.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 12.
SC Code § 36-9-329 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 9 - Commercial Code - Secured Transactions|Section 36-9-329. Priority of security interests in letter-of-credit right.

 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 Section 36-9-107 has priority to the extent of its control over a conflicting security interest held by a secured party that does not have control.  (2) Security interests perfected by control under Section 36-9-314 rank according to priority in time of obtaining control.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 12.
SC Code § 36-9-330 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 9 - Commercial Code - Secured Transactions|Section 36-9-330. Priority of purchaser of chattel paper or instrument.

 (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 and takes possession of the chattel paper or obtains control of the chattel paper under Section 36-9-105; and  (2) the chattel paper does not indicate that it has been assigned to an identified assignee other than the purchaser.  (b) A purchaser of chattel paper has priority over a security interest in the chattel paper which is claimed other than merely as proceeds of inventory subject to a security interest if the purchaser gives new value and takes possession of the chattel paper or obtains control of the chattel paper under Section 36-9-105 in good faith, in the ordinary course of the purchaser's business, and without knowledge that the purchase violates the rights of the secured party.  (c) Except as otherwise provided in Section 36-9-327, a purchaser having priority in chattel paper under subsection (a) or (b) also has priority in proceeds of the chattel paper to the extent that:  (1) Section 36-9-322 provides for priority in the proceeds; or  (2) the proceeds consist of the specific goods covered by the chattel paper or cash proceeds of the specific goods, even if the purchaser's security interest in the proceeds is unperfected.  (d) Except as otherwise provided in Section 36-9-331(a), a purchaser of an instrument has priority over a security interest in the instrument perfected by a method other than possession if the purchaser gives value and takes possession of the instrument in good faith and without knowledge that the purchase violates the rights of the secured party.  (e) For purposes of subsections (a) and (b), the holder of a purchase-money security interest in inventory gives new value for chattel paper constituting proceeds of the inventory.  (f) For purposes of subsections (b) and (d), if chattel paper or an instrument indicates that it has been assigned to an identified secured party other than the purchaser, a purchaser of the chattel paper or instrument has knowledge that the purchase violates the rights of the secured party.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 12.
SC Code § 36-9-331 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 9 - Commercial Code - Secured Transactions|Section 36-9-331. Priority of rights of purchasers of instruments, documents, and securities under other articles; priority of interests in financial assets and security entitlements under Chapter 8.

 (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, or a protected purchaser of a security. These holders or purchasers take priority over an earlier security interest, even if perfected, to the extent provided in Chapters 3, 7, and 8.  (b) This chapter does not limit the rights of or impose liability on a person to the extent that the person is protected against the assertion of a claim under Chapter 8.  (c) Filing under this chapter does not constitute notice of a claim or defense to the holders, or purchasers, or persons described in subsections (a) and (b).  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 12.
SC Code § 36-9-332 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 9 - Commercial Code - Secured Transactions|Section 36-9-332. Transfer of money; transfer of funds from deposit account.

 (a) A transferee of money takes the money free of a security interest unless the transferee acts in collusion with the debtor in violating the rights of the secured party.  (b) A transferee of funds from a deposit account takes the funds free of a security interest in the deposit account unless the transferee acts in collusion with the debtor in violating the rights of the secured party.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 12.
SC Code § 36-9-333 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 9 - Commercial Code - Secured Transactions|Section 36-9-333. Priority of certain liens arising by operation of law.

 (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 business;  (2) which is created by statute or rule of law in favor of the person; and  (3) whose effectiveness depends on the person's possession of the goods.  (b) A possessory lien on goods has priority over a security interest in the goods unless the lien is created by a statute that expressly provides otherwise.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 12.