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Ark. Code Ann. § 4-9-201

General effectiveness of security agreement

Known as the Uniform Commercial Code

The act spans §§ 4–4 (597 sections).

Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Fordyce Bank & Trust Co. v. Bean Timberland, Inc. (2007)

Most recently applied in Edgerly v. Vanderbilt Mortgage & Finance, Inc. (May 2016)

Acts 2001, No. 1439, § 1; 2019, No. 315, § 108.

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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

(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) A transaction subject to this chapter is subject to any applicable rule of law which establishes a different rule for consumers; to any other statute or rule of this state that regulates the rates, charges, agreements, and practices for loans, credit sales, or other extensions of credit; to rights for workers' compensation as provided in § 11-9-110(a); and to any consumer-protection statute or rule of this state.

(3) In case of conflict between this chapter and a rule of law, statute, or rule described in subsection (b), the rule of law, statute, or rule controls. Failure to comply with a statute or rule described in subsection (b) has only the effect the statute or rule specifies.

(4) This chapter does not: validate any rate, charge, agreement, or practice that violates a rule of law, statute, or rule described in subsection (b); or

(5) extend the application of the rule of law, statute, or rule to a transaction not otherwise subject to it.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.