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Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.703

SECURITY INTEREST PERFECTED BEFORE EFFECTIVE DATE

Known as the Uniform Commercial Code

The act spans §§ 1–12 (616 sections).

Reenacted from Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 414, Sec. 3.03 and amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 705, Sec. 23, eff

(a) A security interest that is enforceable immediately before the effective date of the revision and would have priority over the rights of a person that becomes a lien creditor at that time is a perfected security interest under this chapter, as revised, if, on the effective date of the revision, the applicable requirements for enforceability and perfection under this chapter, as revised, are satisfied without further action.

(b) Except as otherwise provided in Section 9.705, if, immediately before the revision takes effect, a security interest is enforceable and would have priority over the rights of a person that becomes a lien creditor at that time, but the applicable requirements for enforceability or perfection under this chapter, as revised, are not satisfied when the revision takes effect, the security interest:

(1) is a perfected security interest until July 1, 2002;

(2) remains enforceable after June 30, 2002, only if the security interest becomes enforceable under Section 9.203, as revised, before July 1, 2002; and

(3) remains perfected after June 30, 2002, only if the applicable requirements for perfection under this chapter, as revised, are satisfied before July 1, 2002.

Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.