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.
Ark. Code Ann. § 4-9-302
Law governing perfection and priority of agricultural liens
Known as the Uniform Commercial Code
The act spans §§ 4–4 (597 sections).
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Meeks v. First Bank of South Arkansas (In Re Tracy's Flowers & Gifts, Inc.) (2001)
Most recently applied in Rice v. Hill & Hill Farms P'ship (In re Turner Grain Merch., Inc.) (September 2018)
Acts 2001, No. 1439, § 1.
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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.