2023 Code of Alabama › Title 7 - Commercial Code. › Article 9A - Secured Transactions. › Part 2 - Effectiveness of Security Agreement, Attachment of Security Interest; Rights of Parties to Security Agreement. › Division 2 - Rights and Duties. › Section 7-9A-208 - Additional Duties of Secured Party Having Control of Collateral.

Section 7-9A-208
Additional duties of secured party having control of collateral.
(a) Applicability of section. This section applies to cases in which there is no outstanding secured obligation and the secured party is not committed to make advances, incur obligations, or otherwise give value.
(b) Duties of secured party after receiving demand from debtor. Within 10 days after receiving an authenticated demand by the debtor:
(1) a secured party having control of a deposit account under Section 7-9A-104(a)(2) shall send to the bank with which the deposit account is maintained an authenticated statement that releases the bank from any further obligation to comply with instructions originated by the secured party;
(2) a secured party having control of a deposit account under Section 7-9A-104(a)(3) shall:
(A) pay the debtor the balance on deposit in the deposit account; or
(B) transfer the balance on deposit into a deposit account in the debtor's name;
(3) a secured party, other than a buyer, having control of electronic chattel paper under Section 7-9A-105 shall:
(A) communicate the authoritative copy of the electronic chattel paper to the debtor or its designated custodian;
(B) if the debtor designates a custodian that is the designated custodian with which the authoritative copy of the electronic chattel paper is maintained for the secured party, communicate to the custodian an authenticated record releasing the designated custodian from any further obligation to comply with instructions originated by the secured party and instructing the custodian to comply with instructions originated by the debtor; and
(C) take appropriate action to enable the debtor or its designated custodian to make copies of or revisions to the authoritative copy which add or change an identified assignee of the authoritative copy without the consent of the secured party;
(4) a secured party having control of investment property under Section 7-8-106(d)(2) or 7-9A-106(b) shall send to the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary with which the security entitlement or commodity contract is maintained an authenticated record that releases the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary from any further obligation to comply with entitlement orders or directions originated by the secured party;
(5) a secured party having control of a letter-of-credit right under Section 7-9A-107 shall send to each person having an unfulfilled obligation to pay or deliver proceeds of the letter of credit to the secured party an authenticated release from any further obligation to pay or deliver proceeds of the letter of credit to the secured party.
(6) a secured party having control of an electronic document shall:
a. Give control of the electronic document to the debtor or its designated custodian;
b. If the debtor designates a custodian that is the designated custodian with which the authoritative copy of the electronic document is maintained for the secured party, communicate to the custodian an authenticated record releasing the designated custodian from any further obligation to comply with instructions originated by the secured party and instructing the custodian to comply with instructions originated by the debtor; and
c. Take appropriate action to enable the debtor or its designated custodian to make copies of or revisions to the authoritative copy which add or change an identified assignee of the authoritative copy without the consent of the secured party.
(c) Authenticated demand. In this section, "authenticated demand" means a record authenticated by the debtor demanding that the secured party take one or more of the specific actions described in subsection (b) and reasonably identifying the collateral that is the subject of the demand. The secured party may designate in a record sent to the debtor or as to which the debtor has notice an address to which such demands must be sent. A demand sent to another address of the secured party will be effective, but the 10-day period for action by the secured party does not begin until the person or department at the address specified by the secured party has notice of the demand.
(Act 2001-481, p. 647, §1; Act 2004-315, p. 464, §2.)