2023 New Mexico Statutes › Chapter 55 - Uniform Commercial Code › Article 9 - Secured Transactions › Part 6 - DEFAULT › Subpart 1 - DEFAULT AND ENFORCEMENT OFSECURITY INTEREST › Section 55-9-621 - Notification of proposal to accept collateral.

(a) A secured party that desires to accept collateral in full or partial satisfaction of the obligation it secures shall send its proposal to:
(1) any person from which the secured party has received, before the debtor consented to the acceptance, an authenticated notification of a claim of an interest in the collateral;
(2) any other secured party or lienholder that, ten days before the debtor consented to the acceptance, held a security interest in or other lien on the collateral perfected by the filing of a financing statement that:
(A) identified the collateral;
(B) was indexed under the debtor's name as of that date; and
(C) was filed in the office or offices in which to file a financing statement against the debtor covering the collateral as of that date; and
(3) any other secured party that, ten days before the debtor consented to the acceptance, held a security interest in the collateral perfected by compliance with a statute, regulation or treaty described in Subsection (a) of Section 55-9-311 NMSA 1978.
(b) A secured party that desires to accept collateral in partial satisfaction of the obligation it secures shall send its proposal to any secondary obligor in addition to the persons described in Subsection (a) of this section.
History:
1978 Comp., § 55-9-621, enacted by Laws 2001, ch. 139, § 118.
OFFICIAL COMMENTS
UCC Official Comments by ALI & the NCCUSL. Reproduced with permission of the PEB for the UCC. All rights reserved.
1.
Source.
Former section 9-505.
2.
Notification Requirement.
Subsection (a) specifies three classes of competing claimants to whom the secured party must send notification of its proposal: (i) those who notify the secured party that they claim an interest in the collateral, (ii) holders of certain security interests and liens who have filed against the debtor, and (iii) holders of certain security interests who have perfected by compliance with a statute (including a certificate-of-title statute), regulation, or treaty described in Section 9-311(a) [55-9-311(a) NMSA 1978]. With regard to (ii),
see
Section 9-611 [55-9-611 NMSA 1978], Comment 4. Subsection (b) also requires notification to any secondary obligor if the proposal is for acceptance in partial satisfaction.
Unlike Section 9-611 [55-9-611 NMSA 1978], this section contains no "safe harbor," which excuses an enforcing secured party from notifying certain secured parties and other lienholders. This is because, unlike Section 9-610 [55-9-610 NMSA 1978], which requires that a disposition of collateral be commercially reasonable, Section 9-620 [55-9-620 NMSA 1978] permits the debtor and secured party to set the amount of credit the debtor will receive for the collateral subject only to the requirement of good faith. An effective acceptance discharges subordinate security interests and other subordinate liens.
See
Section 9-622 [55-9-622 NMSA 1978]. If collateral is subject to several liens securing debts much larger than the value of the collateral, the debtor may be disinclined to refrain from consenting to an acceptance by the holder of the senior security interest, even though, had the debtor objected and the senior disposed of the collateral under Section 9-610, the collateral may have yielded more than enough to satisfy the senior security interest (but not enough to satisfy all the liens). Accordingly, this section imposes upon the enforcing secured party the risk of the filing office's errors and delay. The holder of a security interest who is entitled to notification under this section but to whom the enforcing secured party does not send notification has the right to recover under Section 9-625(b) [55-9-625(b) NMSA 1978] any loss resulting from the secured party's noncompliance with this section.
3.
"Signed" Replaces "Authenticated."
Consistent with the revised definition of "sign" in Section 1-201, the cognate term "signed" replaces the reference to "authenticated" in the pre-2022 text of this section.
ANNOTATIONS
Effective dates.
— Laws 2001, ch. 139, § 155 makes the act effective July 1, 2001.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. —
68A Am. Jur. 2d Secured Transactions § 704 et seq.
Rights and duties of parties to conditional sales contract as to resale of repossessed property, 49 A.L.R.2d 15.
Construction and operation of U.C.C. § 9-505(2) authorizing secured party in possession of collateral to retain it in satisfaction of obligation, 55 A.L.R.3d 651.
79 C.J.S. Secured Transactions § 179.