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2023 Florida Statutes › Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations › Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions › Part I - General Provisions (Ss. 679.1011-679.1101) › 679.1051 - Control of electronic chattel paper.

679.1051 Control of electronic chattel paper.—
(1) A secured party has control of electronic chattel paper if a system employed for evidencing the transfer of interests in the chattel paper reliably establishes the secured party as the person to which the chattel paper was assigned.
(2) A system satisfies subsection (1), and 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:
(a) A single authoritative copy of the record or records exists which is unique, identifiable and, except as otherwise provided in paragraphs (d), (e), and (f), unalterable;
(b) The authoritative copy identifies the secured party as the assignee of the record or records;
(c) The authoritative copy is communicated to and maintained by the secured party or its designated custodian;
(d) Copies or amendments that add or change an identified assignee of the authoritative copy can be made only with the consent of the secured party;
(e) 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
(f) Any amendment of the authoritative copy is readily identifiable as authorized or unauthorized.
History.—s. 1, ch. 2001-198; s. 2, ch. 2012-59.
2023 Florida Statutes › Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations › Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions › Part I - General Provisions (Ss. 679.1011-679.1101) › 679.1061 - Control of investment property.

679.1061 Control of investment property.—
(1) A person has control of a certificated security, uncertificated security, or security entitlement as provided in s. 678.1061.
(2) A secured party has control of a commodity contract if:
(a) The secured party is the commodity intermediary with which the commodity contract is carried; or
(b) 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.
(3) 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.
History.—s. 1, ch. 2001-198.
2023 Florida Statutes › Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations › Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions › Part I - General Provisions (Ss. 679.1011-679.1101) › 679.1071 - Control of letter-of-credit right.

679.1071 Control of letter-of-credit right.—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 s. 675.114(3) or otherwise applicable law or practice.
History.—s. 1, ch. 2001-198.
2023 Florida Statutes › Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations › Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions › Part I - General Provisions (Ss. 679.1011-679.1101) › 679.1081 - Sufficiency of description.

679.1081 Sufficiency of description.—
(1) Except as otherwise provided herein and in subsections (3), (4), and (5), a description of personal or real property is sufficient, whether or not it is specific, if it reasonably identifies what is described. A description of real estate in a record filed to perfect a security interest in crops growing or to be grown or goods which are or are to become fixtures shall be sufficient only if the filing or recording of the same constitutes constructive notice under the laws of this state, other than this chapter, which are applicable to the filing or recording of a record of a mortgage, and a mailing or street address alone shall not be sufficient.
(2) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (4), a description of collateral reasonably identifies the collateral if it identifies the collateral by:
(a) Specific listing;
(b) Category;
(c) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (5), a type of collateral defined in the Uniform Commercial Code;
(d) Quantity;
(e) Computational or allocational formula or procedure; or
(f) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (3), any other method, if the identity of the collateral is objectively determinable.
(3) 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 for purposes of the security agreement.
(4) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (5), a description of a security entitlement, securities account, or commodity account is sufficient if it describes:
(a) The collateral by those terms or as investment property; or
(b) The underlying financial asset or commodity contract.
(5) A description only by type of collateral defined in this chapter is an insufficient description of:
(a) A commercial tort claim;
(b) In a consumer transaction, consumer goods, a security entitlement, a securities account, or a commodity account;
(c) An account consisting of a right to payment of a monetary obligation for the sale of real property that is the debtor’s homestead under the laws of this state; or
(d) Accounts and other entitlements set forth in ss. 222.13-222.16, 222.18, and 222.201-222.22.
History.—s. 1, ch. 2001-198; s. 2, ch. 2002-242; s. 1, ch. 2023-266.
2023 Florida Statutes › Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations › Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions › Part I - General Provisions (Ss. 679.1011-679.1101) › 679.1101 - Security interests arising under chapter 672 or chapter 680.

679.1101 Security interests arising under chapter 672 or chapter 680.—A security interest arising under s. 672.401, s. 672.505, s. 672.711(3), or s. 680.508(5) is subject to this chapter. However, until the debtor obtains possession of the goods:
(1) The security interest is enforceable, even if s. 679.2031(2)(c) 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 chapter 672 or chapter 680; and
(4) The security interest has priority over a conflicting security interest created by the debtor.
History.—s. 1, ch. 2001-198.
2023 Florida Statutes › Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations › Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions › Part II - Effectiveness of Security Agreement; Attachment of Security Interest; Rights of Parties to Security Agreement (Ss. 679.2011-679.210) › 679.2011 - General effectiveness of security agreement.

679.2011 General effectiveness of security agreement.—
(1) Except as otherwise provided in the Uniform Commercial Code, a security agreement is effective according to its terms between the parties, against purchasers of the collateral, and against creditors.
(2) Nothing in this chapter validates any charge or practice illegal under any statute or regulation thereunder governing usury, small loans, retail installment sales, or the like, or extends the application of any such statute or regulation to any transaction not otherwise subject thereto. A transaction, although subject to this chapter, is also subject to chapters 516 and 520, and in the case of conflict between the provisions of this chapter and any such statute, the provisions of such statute shall control. Failure to comply with any applicable statute has only the effect which is specified therein.
History.—s. 2, ch. 2001-198.
2023 Florida Statutes › Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations › Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions › Part II - Effectiveness of Security Agreement; Attachment of Security Interest; Rights of Parties to Security Agreement (Ss. 679.2011-679.210) › 679.2021 - Title to collateral immaterial.

679.2021 Title to collateral immaterial.—Except as otherwise provided with respect to consignments or sales of accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, or promissory notes, the provisions of this chapter with regard to rights and obligations apply whether title to collateral is in the secured party or the debtor.
History.—s. 2, ch. 2001-198.
2023 Florida Statutes › Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations › Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions › Part II - Effectiveness of Security Agreement; Attachment of Security Interest; Rights of Parties to Security Agreement (Ss. 679.2011-679.210) › 679.2041 - After-acquired property; future advances.

679.2041 After-acquired property; future advances.—
(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2), a security agreement may create or provide for a security interest in after-acquired collateral.
(2) A security interest does not attach under a term constituting an after-acquired property clause to:
(a) Consumer goods, other than an accession when given as additional security, unless the debtor acquires rights in them within 10 days after the secured party gives value; or
(b) A commercial tort claim.
(3) A security agreement may provide that collateral secures, or that accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, or promissory notes are sold in connection with, future advances or other value, whether or not the advances or value are given pursuant to commitment.
History.—s. 2, ch. 2001-198.
2023 Florida Statutes › Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations › Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions › Part II - Effectiveness of Security Agreement; Attachment of Security Interest; Rights of Parties to Security Agreement (Ss. 679.2011-679.210) › 679.2051 - Use or disposition of collateral permissible.

679.2051 Use or disposition of collateral permissible.—
(1) A security interest is not invalid or fraudulent against creditors solely because:
(a) The debtor has the right or ability to:
1. Use, commingle, or dispose of all or part of the collateral, including returned or repossessed goods;
2. Collect, compromise, enforce, or otherwise deal with collateral;
3. Accept the return of collateral or make repossessions; or
4. Use, commingle, or dispose of proceeds; or
(b) The secured party fails to require the debtor to account for proceeds or replace collateral.
(2) This section does not relax the requirements of possession if attachment, perfection, or enforcement of a security interest depends upon possession of the collateral by the secured party.
History.—s. 2, ch. 2001-198.
2023 Florida Statutes › Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations › Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions › Part II - Effectiveness of Security Agreement; Attachment of Security Interest; Rights of Parties to Security Agreement (Ss. 679.2011-679.210) › 679.2061 - Security interest arising in purchase or delivery of financial asset.

679.2061 Security interest arising in purchase or delivery of financial asset.—
(1) A security interest in favor of a securities intermediary attaches to a person’s security entitlement if:
(a) The person buys a financial asset through the securities intermediary in a transaction in which the person is obligated to pay the purchase price to the securities intermediary at the time of the purchase; and
(b) The securities intermediary credits the financial asset to the buyer’s securities account before the buyer pays the securities intermediary.
(2) The security interest described in subsection (1) secures the person’s obligation to pay for the financial asset.
(3) A security interest in favor of a person who delivers a certificated security or other financial asset represented by a writing attaches to the security or other financial asset if:
(a) The security or other financial asset:
1. In the ordinary course of business is transferred by delivery with any necessary indorsement or assignment; and
2. Is delivered under an agreement between persons in the business of dealing with such securities or financial assets; and
(b) The agreement calls for delivery against payment.
(4) The security interest described in subsection (3) secures the obligation to make payment for the delivery.
History.—s. 2, ch. 2001-198.
2023 Florida Statutes › Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations › Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions › Part II - Effectiveness of Security Agreement; Attachment of Security Interest; Rights of Parties to Security Agreement (Ss. 679.2011-679.210) › 679.2071 - Rights and duties of secured party having possession or control of collateral.

679.2071 Rights and duties of secured party having possession or control of collateral.—
(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (4), a secured party shall use reasonable care in the custody and preservation of collateral in the secured party’s possession. In the case of chattel paper or an instrument, reasonable care includes taking necessary steps to preserve rights against prior parties unless otherwise agreed.
(2) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (4), if a secured party has possession of collateral:
(a) Reasonable expenses, including the cost of insurance and payment of taxes or other charges, incurred in the custody, preservation, use, or operation of the collateral are chargeable to the debtor and are secured by the collateral;
(b) The risk of accidental loss or damage is on the debtor to the extent of a deficiency in any effective insurance coverage;
(c) The secured party shall keep the collateral identifiable, but fungible collateral may be commingled; and
(d) The secured party may use or operate the collateral:
1. For the purpose of preserving the collateral or its value;
2. As permitted by an order of a court having competent jurisdiction; or
3. Except in the case of consumer goods, in the manner and to the extent agreed by the debtor.
(3) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (4), a secured party having possession of collateral or control of collateral under s. 677.106, s. 679.1041, s. 679.1051, s. 679.1061, or s. 679.1071:
(a) May hold as additional security any proceeds, except money or funds, received from the collateral;
(b) Shall apply money or funds received from the collateral to reduce the secured obligation, unless remitted to the debtor; and
(c) May create a security interest in the collateral.
(4) If the secured party is a buyer of accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, or promissory notes or a consignor:
(a) Subsection (1) does not apply unless the secured party is entitled under an agreement:
1. To charge back uncollected collateral; or
2. Otherwise to full or limited recourse against the debtor or a secondary obligor based on the nonpayment or other default of an account debtor or other obligor on the collateral; and
(b) Subsections (2) and (3) do not apply.
History.—s. 2, ch. 2001-198; s. 60, ch. 2010-131.
2023 Florida Statutes › Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations › Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions › Part II - Effectiveness of Security Agreement; Attachment of Security Interest; Rights of Parties to Security Agreement (Ss. 679.2011-679.210) › 679.209 - Duties of secured party if account debtor has been notified of assignment.

679.209 Duties of secured party if account debtor has been notified of assignment.—
(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (3), this section applies if:
(a) There is no outstanding secured obligation; and
(b) The secured party is not committed to make advances, incur obligations, or otherwise give value.
(2) Within 10 days after receiving an authenticated demand by the debtor, a secured party shall send to an account debtor that has received notification of an assignment to the secured party as assignee under s. 679.4061(1) an authenticated record that releases the account debtor from any further obligation to the secured party.
(3) This section does not apply to an assignment constituting the sale of an account, chattel paper, or payment intangible.
History.—s. 2, ch. 2001-198.
2023 Florida Statutes › Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations › Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions › Part III - Perfection and Priority (Ss. 679.3011-679.342) › 679.3011 - Law governing perfection and priority of security interests.

679.3011 Law governing perfection and priority of security interests.—Except as otherwise provided in ss. 679.1091, 679.3031, 679.3041, 679.3051, and 679.3061, the following rules determine the law governing perfection, the effect of perfection or nonperfection, and the priority of a security interest in collateral:
(1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, while a debtor is located in a jurisdiction, the local law of that jurisdiction governs perfection, the effect of perfection or nonperfection, and the priority of a security interest in collateral.
(2) While collateral is located in a jurisdiction, the local law of that jurisdiction governs perfection, the effect of perfection or nonperfection, and the priority of a possessory security interest in that collateral.
(3) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (4) and (5), while tangible negotiable documents, goods, instruments, money, or tangible chattel paper is located in a jurisdiction, the local law of that jurisdiction governs:
(a) Perfection of a security interest in the goods by filing a fixture filing;
(b) Perfection of a security interest in timber to be cut; and
(c) The effect of perfection or nonperfection and the priority of a nonpossessory security interest in the collateral.
(4) The local law of the jurisdiction in which the wellhead or minehead is located governs perfection, the effect of perfection or nonperfection, and the priority of a security interest in as-extracted collateral.
(5) The law of this state governs:
(a) The perfection of a security interest in goods that are or are to become fixtures in this state by the filing of a fixture filing.
(b) The effect of perfection or nonperfection and the priority of a security interest in goods that are or are to become fixtures in this state.
History.—s. 3, ch. 2001-198; s. 5, ch. 2002-242; s. 62, ch. 2010-131.
2023 Florida Statutes › Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations › Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions › Part III - Perfection and Priority (Ss. 679.3011-679.342) › 679.3021 - Law governing perfection and priority of agricultural liens.

679.3021 Law governing perfection and priority of agricultural liens.—While farm products are located in a jurisdiction, the local law of that jurisdiction governs perfection, the effect of perfection or nonperfection, and the priority of an agricultural lien on the farm products.
History.—s. 3, ch. 2001-198.
2023 Florida Statutes › Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations › Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions › Part III - Perfection and Priority (Ss. 679.3011-679.342) › 679.3031 - Law governing perfection and priority of security interests in goods covered by a certificate of title.

679.3031 Law governing perfection and priority of security interests in goods covered by a certificate of title.—
(1) This section applies to goods covered by a certificate of title, even if there is no other relationship between the jurisdiction under whose certificate of title the goods are covered and the goods or the debtor.
(2) Goods become covered by a certificate of title when a valid application for the certificate of title and the applicable fee are delivered to the appropriate authority. Goods cease to be covered by a certificate of title at the earlier of the time the certificate of title ceases to be effective under the law of the issuing jurisdiction or the time the goods become covered subsequently by a certificate of title issued by another jurisdiction.
(3) The local law of the jurisdiction under whose certificate of title the goods are covered governs perfection, the effect of perfection or nonperfection, and the priority of a security interest in goods covered by a certificate of title from the time the goods become covered by the certificate of title until the goods cease to be covered by the certificate of title.
History.—s. 3, ch. 2001-198.
2023 Florida Statutes › Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations › Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions › Part III - Perfection and Priority (Ss. 679.3011-679.342) › 679.3041 - Law governing perfection and priority of security interests in deposit accounts.

679.3041 Law governing perfection and priority of security interests in deposit accounts.—
(1) The local law of a bank’s jurisdiction governs perfection, the effect of perfection or nonperfection, and the priority of a security interest in a deposit account maintained with that bank.
(2) The following rules determine a bank’s jurisdiction for purposes of this part:
(a) If an agreement between the bank and the debtor governing the deposit account expressly provides that a particular jurisdiction is the bank’s jurisdiction for purposes of this part, this chapter, or the Uniform Commercial Code, that jurisdiction is the bank’s jurisdiction.
(b) If paragraph (a) does not apply and an agreement between the bank and its customer governing the deposit account expressly provides that the agreement is governed by the law of a particular jurisdiction, that jurisdiction is the bank’s jurisdiction.
(c) If neither paragraph (a) nor paragraph (b) applies and an agreement between the bank and its customer governing the deposit account expressly provides that the deposit account is maintained at an office in a particular jurisdiction, that jurisdiction is the bank’s jurisdiction.
(d) If none of the preceding paragraphs applies, the bank’s jurisdiction is the jurisdiction in which the office identified in an account statement as the office serving the customer’s account is located.
(e) If none of the preceding paragraphs applies, the bank’s jurisdiction is the jurisdiction in which the chief executive office of the bank is located.
History.—s. 3, ch. 2001-198.
2023 Florida Statutes › Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations › Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions › Part III - Perfection and Priority (Ss. 679.3011-679.342) › 679.3061 - Law governing perfection and priority of security interests in letter-of-credit rights.

679.3061 Law governing perfection and priority of security interests in letter-of-credit rights.—
(1) Subject to subsection (3), the local law of the issuer’s jurisdiction or a nominated person’s jurisdiction governs perfection, the effect of perfection or nonperfection, and the priority of a security interest in a letter-of-credit right if the issuer’s jurisdiction or nominated person’s jurisdiction is a state.
(2) For purposes of this part, an issuer’s jurisdiction or nominated person’s jurisdiction is the jurisdiction whose law governs the liability of the issuer or nominated person with respect to the letter-of-credit right as provided in s. 675.116.
(3) This section does not apply to a security interest that is perfected only under s. 679.3081(4).
History.—s. 3, ch. 2001-198.
2023 Florida Statutes › Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations › Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions › Part III - Perfection and Priority (Ss. 679.3011-679.342) › 679.3081 - When security interest or agricultural lien is perfected; continuity of perfection.

679.3081 When security interest or agricultural lien is perfected; continuity of perfection.—
(1) Except as otherwise provided in this section and s. 679.3091, a security interest is perfected if it has attached and all of the applicable requirements for perfection in ss. 679.3101-679.3161 have been satisfied. A security interest is perfected when it attaches if the applicable requirements are satisfied before the security interest attaches.
(2) An agricultural lien is perfected if it has become effective and all of the applicable requirements for perfection in s. 679.3101 have been satisfied. An agricultural lien is perfected when it becomes effective if the applicable requirements are satisfied before the agricultural lien becomes effective.
(3) A security interest or agricultural lien is perfected continuously if it is originally perfected by one method under this chapter and is later perfected by another method under this chapter, without an intermediate period during which it was unperfected.
(4) Perfection of a security interest in collateral also perfects a security interest in a supporting obligation for the collateral.
(5) Perfection of a security interest in a right to payment or performance also perfects a security interest in a security interest, mortgage, or other lien on personal or real property securing the right.
(6) Perfection of a security interest in a securities account also perfects a security interest in the security entitlements carried in the securities account.
(7) Perfection of a security interest in a commodity account also perfects a security interest in the commodity contracts carried in the commodity account.
History.—s. 3, ch. 2001-198.
2023 Florida Statutes › Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations › Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions › Part III - Perfection and Priority (Ss. 679.3011-679.342) › 679.3091 - Security interest perfected upon attachment.

679.3091 Security interest perfected upon attachment.—The following security interests are perfected when they attach:
(1) A purchase-money security interest in consumer goods, except as otherwise provided in s. 679.3111(2) with respect to consumer goods that are subject to a statute or treaty described in s. 679.3111(1);
(2) An assignment of accounts or payment intangibles which does not by itself or in conjunction with other assignments to the same assignee transfer a significant part of the assignor’s outstanding accounts or payment intangibles;
(3) A sale of a payment intangible;
(4) A sale of a promissory note;
(5) A security interest created by the assignment of a health-care-insurance receivable to the provider of the health-care goods or services;
(6) A security interest arising under s. 672.401, s. 672.505, s. 672.711(3), or s. 680.508(5), until the debtor obtains possession of the collateral;
(7) A security interest of a collecting bank arising under s. 674.2101;
(8) A security interest of an issuer or nominated person arising under s. 675.118;
(9) A security interest arising in the delivery of a financial asset under s. 679.2061(3);
(10) A security interest in investment property created by a broker or securities intermediary;
(11) A security interest in a commodity contract or a commodity account created by a commodity intermediary;
(12) An assignment for the benefit of all creditors of the transferor and subsequent transfers by the assignee thereunder; and
(13) A security interest created by an assignment of a beneficial interest in a decedent’s estate.
History.—s. 3, ch. 2001-198.
2023 Florida Statutes › Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations › Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions › Part III - Perfection and Priority (Ss. 679.3011-679.342) › 679.3101 - When filing required to perfect security interest or agricultural lien; security interests and agricultural liens to which filing provisions do not apply.

679.3101 When filing required to perfect security interest or agricultural lien; security interests and agricultural liens to which filing provisions do not apply.—
(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2) and s. 679.3121(2), a financing statement must be filed to perfect all security interests and agricultural liens.
(2) The filing of a financing statement is not necessary to perfect a security interest:
(a) That is perfected under s. 679.3081(4), (5), (6), or (7);
(b) That is perfected under s. 679.3091 when it attaches;
(c) In property subject to a statute, regulation, or treaty described in s. 679.3111(1);
(d) In goods in possession of a bailee which is perfected under s. 679.3121(4)(a) or (b);
(e) In certificated securities, documents, goods, or instruments which is perfected without filing, control, or possession under s. 679.3121(5), (6), or (7);
(f) In collateral in the secured party’s possession under s. 679.3131;
(g) In a certificated security which is perfected by delivery of the security certificate to the secured party under s. 679.3131;
(h) In deposit accounts, electronic chattel paper, electronic documents, investment property, or letter-of-credit rights which is perfected by control under s. 679.3141;
(i) In proceeds which is perfected under s. 679.3151; or
(j) That is perfected under s. 679.3161.
(3) If a secured party assigns a perfected security interest or agricultural lien, a filing under this chapter is not required to continue the perfected status of the security interest against creditors of and transferees from the original debtor.
History.—s. 3, ch. 2001-198; s. 63, ch. 2010-131.
2023 Florida Statutes › Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations › Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions › Part III - Perfection and Priority (Ss. 679.3011-679.342) › 679.3111 - Perfection of security interests in property subject to certain statutes, regulations, and treaties.

679.3111 Perfection of security interests in property subject to certain statutes, regulations, and treaties.—
(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (4), the filing of a financing statement is not necessary or effective to perfect a security interest in property subject to:
(a) A statute, regulation, or treaty of the United States whose requirements for a security interest’s obtaining priority over the rights of a lien creditor with respect to the property preempt s. 679.3101(1);
(b) A statute covering automobiles, trailers, mobile homes, boats, farm tractors, or the like, which provides for a security interest to be indicated on a certificate of title of such property as a condition or result of perfection, and any non-Uniform Commercial Code central filing statute; or
(c) A statute of another jurisdiction which provides for a security interest to be indicated on a certificate of title as a condition or result of the security interest’s obtaining priority over the rights of a lien creditor with respect to the property.
(2) Compliance with the requirements of a statute, regulation, or treaty described in subsection (1) for obtaining priority over the rights of a lien creditor is equivalent to the filing of a financing statement under this chapter. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (4) and ss. 679.3131 and 679.3161(4) and (5) for goods covered by a certificate of title, a security interest in property subject to a statute, regulation, or treaty described in subsection (1) may be perfected only by compliance with those requirements, and a security interest so perfected remains perfected notwithstanding a change in the use or transfer of possession of the collateral.
(3) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (4) and s. 679.3161(4) and (5), duration and renewal of perfection of a security interest perfected by compliance with the requirements prescribed by a statute, regulation, or treaty described in subsection (1) are governed by the statute, regulation, or treaty. In other respects, the security interest is subject to this chapter.
(4) During any period in which collateral subject to a statute specified in paragraph (1)(b) is inventory held for sale or lease by a person or leased by that person as lessor and that person is in the business of selling goods of that kind, this section does not apply to a security interest in that collateral created by that person.
History.—s. 3, ch. 2001-198; s. 4, ch. 2012-59.
2023 Florida Statutes › Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations › Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions › Part III - Perfection and Priority (Ss. 679.3011-679.342) › 679.3141 - Perfection by control.

679.3141 Perfection by control.—
(1) 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 s. 677.106, s. 679.1041, s. 679.1051, s. 679.1061, or s. 679.1071.
(2) A security interest in deposit accounts, electronic chattel paper, letter-of-credit rights, or electronic documents is perfected by control under s. 677.106, s. 679.1041, s. 679.1051, or s. 679.1071 when the secured party obtains control and remains perfected by control only while the secured party retains control.
(3) A security interest in investment property is perfected by control under s. 679.1061 from the time the secured party obtains control and remains perfected by control until:
(a) The secured party does not have control; and
(b) One of the following occurs:
1. If the collateral is a certificated security, the debtor has or acquires possession of the security certificate;
2. If the collateral is an uncertificated security, the issuer has registered or registers the debtor as the registered owner; or
3. If the collateral is a security entitlement, the debtor is or becomes the entitlement holder.
History.—s. 3, ch. 2001-198; s. 66, ch. 2010-131.
2023 Florida Statutes › Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations › Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions › Part III - Perfection and Priority (Ss. 679.3011-679.342) › 679.3151 - Secured party’s rights on disposition of collateral and in proceeds.

679.3151 Secured party’s rights on disposition of collateral and in proceeds.—
(1) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter and in s. 672.403(2):
(a) 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
(b) A security interest attaches to any identifiable proceeds of collateral.
(2) Proceeds that are commingled with other property are identifiable proceeds:
(a) If the proceeds are goods, to the extent provided by s. 679.336; and
(b) 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 chapter with respect to commingled property of the type involved.
(3) A security interest in proceeds is a perfected security interest if the security interest in the original collateral was perfected.
(4) A perfected security interest in proceeds becomes unperfected on the 21st day after the security interest attaches to the proceeds unless:
(a) The following conditions are satisfied:
1. A filed financing statement covers the original collateral;
2. 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
3. The proceeds are not acquired with cash proceeds;
(b) The proceeds are identifiable cash proceeds; or
(c) The security interest in the proceeds is perfected other than under subsection (3) when the security interest attaches to the proceeds or within 20 days thereafter.
(5) If a filed financing statement covers the original collateral, a security interest in proceeds which remains perfected under paragraph (4)(a) becomes unperfected at the later of:
(a) When the effectiveness of the filed financing statement lapses under s. 679.515 or is terminated under s. 679.513; or
(b) The 21st day after the security interest attaches to the proceeds.
History.—s. 3, ch. 2001-198.
2023 Florida Statutes › Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations › Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions › Part III - Perfection and Priority (Ss. 679.3011-679.342) › 679.3181 - 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.

679.3181 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.—
(1) A debtor who has sold an account, chattel paper, payment intangible, or promissory note does not retain a legal or equitable interest in the collateral sold.
(2) For purposes of determining the rights of creditors of, and purchasers for value of an account or chattel paper from, a debtor who 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.—s. 3, ch. 2001-198.
2023 Florida Statutes › Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations › Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions › Part III - Perfection and Priority (Ss. 679.3011-679.342) › 679.319 - Rights and title of consignee with respect to creditors and purchasers.

679.319 Rights and title of consignee with respect to creditors and purchasers.—
(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2), 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.
(2) For purposes of determining the rights of a creditor of a consignee, law other than this chapter 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.—s. 3, ch. 2001-198.
2023 Florida Statutes › Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations › Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions › Part III - Perfection and Priority (Ss. 679.3011-679.342) › 679.320 - Buyer of goods.

679.320 Buyer of goods.—
(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (5), 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.
(2) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (5), 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:
(a) Without knowledge of the security interest;
(b) For value;
(c) Primarily for the buyer’s personal, family, or household purposes; and
(d) Before the filing of a financing statement covering the goods.
(3) To the extent that it affects the priority of a security interest over a buyer of goods under subsection (2), the period of effectiveness of a filing made in the jurisdiction in which the seller is located is governed by s. 679.3161(1) and (2).
(4) 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.
(5) Subsections (1) and (2) do not affect a security interest in goods in the possession of the secured party under s. 679.3131.
History.—s. 3, ch. 2001-198.
2023 Florida Statutes › Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations › Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions › Part III - Perfection and Priority (Ss. 679.3011-679.342) › 679.321 - Licensee of general intangible and lessee of goods in ordinary course of business.

679.321 Licensee of general intangible and lessee of goods in ordinary course of business.—
(1) In this section, the term “licensee in ordinary course of business” means a person who 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.
(2) 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.
(3) 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.—s. 3, ch. 2001-198.
2023 Florida Statutes › Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations › Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions › Part III - Perfection and Priority (Ss. 679.3011-679.342) › 679.323 - Future advances.

679.323 Future advances.—
(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (3), for purposes of determining the priority of a perfected security interest under s. 679.322(1)(a), perfection of the security interest dates from the time an advance is made to the extent that the security interest secures an advance that:
(a) Is made while the security interest is perfected only:
1. Under s. 679.3091 when it attaches; or
2. Temporarily under s. 679.3121(5), (6), or (7); and
(b) Is not made pursuant to a commitment entered into before or while the security interest is perfected by a method other than under s. 679.3091 or s. 679.3121(5), (6), or (7).
(2) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (3), a security interest is subordinate to the rights of a person who becomes a lien creditor to the extent that the security interest secures an advance made more than 45 days after the person becomes a lien creditor unless the advance is made:
(a) Without knowledge of the lien; or
(b) Pursuant to a commitment entered into without knowledge of the lien.
(3) Subsections (1) and (2) 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.
(4) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (5), 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:
(a) The time the secured party acquires knowledge of the buyer’s purchase; or
(b) Forty-five days after the purchase.
(5) Subsection (4) 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 45-day period.
(6) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (7), 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:
(a) The time the secured party acquires knowledge of the lease; or
(b) Forty-five days after the lease contract becomes enforceable.
(7) Subsection (6) 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 45-day period.
History.—s. 3, ch. 2001-198.
2023 Florida Statutes › Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations › Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions › Part III - Perfection and Priority (Ss. 679.3011-679.342) › 679.325 - Priority of security interests in transferred collateral.

679.325 Priority of security interests in transferred collateral.—
(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2), a security interest created by a debtor is subordinate to a security interest in the same collateral created by another person if:
(a) The debtor acquired the collateral subject to the security interest created by the other person;
(b) The security interest created by the other person was perfected when the debtor acquired the collateral; and
(c) There is no period thereafter during which the security interest is unperfected.
(2) Subsection (1) subordinates a security interest only if the security interest:
(a) Otherwise would have priority solely under s. 679.322(1) or s. 679.324; or
(b) Arose solely under s. 672.711(3) or s. 680.508(5).
History.—s. 3, ch. 2001-198.
2023 Florida Statutes › Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations › Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions › Part III - Perfection and Priority (Ss. 679.3011-679.342) › 679.326 - Priority of security interests created by new debtor.

679.326 Priority of security interests created by new debtor.—
(1) Subject to subsection (2), a security interest that is created by a new debtor in collateral in which the new debtor has or acquires rights and perfected by a filed financing statement that would be ineffective to perfect the security interest but for the application of s. 679.508 or ss. 679.508 and 679.3161(9)(a) is subordinate to a security interest in the same collateral which is perfected other than by such a filed financing statement.
(2) 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 (1). 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.—s. 3, ch. 2001-198; s. 7, ch. 2012-59.
2023 Florida Statutes › Title XXXIX - Commercial Relations › Chapter 679 - Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions › Part III - Perfection and Priority (Ss. 679.3011-679.342) › 679.327 - Priority of security interests in deposit account.

679.327 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 s. 679.1041 has priority over a conflicting security interest held by a secured party that does not have control.
(2) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (3) and (4), security interests perfected by control under s. 679.3141 rank according to priority in time of obtaining control.
(3) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (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 s. 679.1041(1)(c) has priority over a security interest held by the bank with which the deposit account is maintained.
History.—s. 3, ch. 2001-198.