2011 Kansas Code
Chapter 84. - UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE
Article 9. - SECURED TRANSACTIONS
84-9-601 Rights after default; judicial enforcement; consignor or buyer of accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles or promissory notes.

84-9-601. Rights after default; judicial enforcement; consignor or buyer of accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles or promissory notes. (a) Rights of secured party after default. After default, a secured party has the rights provided in this part and, except as otherwise provided in K.S.A. 2010 Supp. 84-9-602 and amendments thereto, those provided by agreement of the parties. A secured party:

(1) May reduce a claim to judgment, foreclose, or otherwise enforce the claim, security interest, or agricultural lien by any available judicial procedure; and

(2) if the collateral is documents, may proceed either as to the documents or as to the goods they cover.

(b) Rights and duties of secured party in possession or control. A secured party in possession of collateral or control of collateral under K.S.A. 2010 Supp. 84-7-106, and amendments thereto, and K.S.A. 2010 Supp. 84-9-104, 84-9-105, 84-9-106 or 84-9-107 and amendments thereto has the rights and duties provided in K.S.A. 2010 Supp. 84-9-207 and amendments thereto.

(c) Rights cumulative; simultaneous exercise. The rights under subsections (a) and (b) are cumulative and may be exercised simultaneously.

(d) Rights of debtor and obligor. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (g) and K.S.A. 2010 Supp. 84-9-605 and amendments thereto, after default, a debtor and an obligor have the rights provided in this part and by agreement of the parties.

(e) Lien of levy after judgment. If a secured party has reduced its claim to judgment, the lien of any levy that may be made upon the collateral by virtue of an execution based upon the judgment relates back to the earliest of:

(1) The date of perfection of the security interest or agricultural lien in the collateral;

(2) the date of filing a financing statement covering the collateral; or

(3) any date specified in a statute under which the agricultural lien was created.

(f) Execution sale. A sale pursuant to an execution is a foreclosure of the security interest or agricultural lien by judicial procedure within the meaning of this section. A secured party may purchase at the sale and thereafter hold the collateral free of any other requirements of this article.

(g) Consignor or buyer of certain rights to payment. Except as otherwise provided in K.S.A. 2010 Supp. 84-9-607(c) and amendments thereto, this part imposes no duties upon a secured party that is a consignor or is a buyer of accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, or promissory notes.