57A-9-611. "Notification date"--Notification of disposition of collateral.

(a) In this section, "notification date" means the earlier of the date on which:

(1)    A secured party sends to the debtor and any secondary obligor a signed notification of disposition; or

(2)    The debtor and any secondary obligor waive the right to notification.

(b) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d), a secured party that disposes of collateral under § 57A-9-610 shall send to the persons specified in subsection (c) a reasonable signed notification of disposition.

(c) To comply with subsection (b), the secured party shall send a signed notification of disposition to:

(1)    The debtor;

(2)    Any secondary obligor; and

(3)    If the collateral is other than consumer goods:

(A)    Any other person from which the secured party has received, before the notification date, a signed notification of a claim of an interest in the collateral;

(B)    Any other secured party or lienholder that, ten days before the notification date, held a security interest in or other lien on the collateral perfected by the filing of a financing statement that:

(i)    Identified the collateral;

(ii)    Was indexed under the debtor's name as of that date; and

(iii)    Was filed in the office in which to file a financing statement against the debtor covering the collateral as of that date; and

(C)    Any other secured party that, ten days before the notification date, held a security interest in the collateral perfected by compliance with a statute, regulation, or treaty described in § 57A-9-311(a).

(d) Subsection (b) does not apply if the collateral is perishable or threatens to decline speedily in value or is of a type customarily sold on a recognized market.

(e) A secured party complies with the requirement for notification prescribed by subsection (c)(3)(B) if:

(1)    Not later than twenty days or earlier than thirty days before the notification date, the secured party requests, in a commercially reasonable manner, information concerning financing statements indexed under the debtor's name in the office indicated in subsection (c)(3)(B); and

(2)    Before the notification date, the secured party:

(A)    Did not receive a response to the request for information; or

(B)    Received a response to the request for information and sent a signed notification of disposition to each secured party or other lienholder named in that response whose financing statement covered the collateral.

Source: SL 2000, ch 231; SL 2024, ch 198, § 83.