PERFECTION OF SECURITY INTEREST
Known as the Certificate of Title Act
The act spans §§ 501–501 (103 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case In Re Sanders (2007)
Most recently applied in Hardy Rawls Enterprises L.L.C. v. Cage (In Re Moye) (August 2011)
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff
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.
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a person may perfect a security interest in a motor vehicle that is the subject of a first or subsequent sale only by recording the security interest on the title as provided by this chapter.
(b) A person may perfect a security interest in a motor vehicle held as inventory by a person in the business of selling motor vehicles only by complying with Chapter 9, Business & Commerce Code.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.