2012 California Codes
CIV - Civil Code
DIVISION 4 - GENERAL PROVISIONS [3274 - 9566]
PART 2 - SPECIAL RELATIONS OF DEBTOR AND CREDITOR
TITLE 2 - FRAUDULENT INSTRUMENTS AND TRANSFERS
CHAPTER 2 - Conveyance of Personal Property Without Delivery
Section 3440.5

  

(a) This chapter does not affect the rights of a secured party who, for value and in good faith, acquires a security interest in the transferred personal property from the transferee, or from the transferee’s successor in interest, if the transferor is no longer in possession of the personal property at the time the security interest attaches.

(b) Additionally, except as provided in Section 3440.3, this chapter does not affect the rights of a secured party who acquires a security interest from the transferee, or from the transferee’s successor in interest, in the personal property, if all of the following conditions are satisfied:

(1) On or before the date the security agreement is executed, the intended debtor or secured party files a financing statement with respect to the property transferred, signed by the intended debtor. The financing statement shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State in accordance with Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 9501) of Division 9 of the Commercial Code, but shall use the terms “transferor” in lieu of “debtor,” “transferee” in lieu of “secured party,” and “secured party” in lieu of “assignee of secured party.” The provisions of Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 9501) of Division 9 of the Commercial Code shall apply as appropriate to such a statement. For the purpose of indexing, and in any certification of search, the Secretary of State may refer to any financing statement filed pursuant to this paragraph as a financing statement under the Commercial Code and may describe the transferor as a debtor and the transferee as a secured party.

Compliance with this paragraph shall, however, not perfect the security interest of the secured party. Perfection of such a security interest shall be governed by Division 9 (commencing with Section 9101) of the Commercial Code.

(2) The intended debtor or secured party publishes a notice of the transfer one time in a newspaper of general circulation published in the judicial district in which the personal property is located, if there is one, and if there is none in the judicial district, then in a newspaper of general circulation in the county embracing the judicial district. The publication shall be completed not less than 10 days before the date of execution by the intended debtor of the intended security agreement. The notice shall contain the names and addresses of the transferor and transferee and of the intended debtor and secured party, a general statement of the character of the personal property transferred and intended to be subject to the security interest, the location of the personal property, and the date on or after which the security agreement is to be executed by the intended debtor.

(Amended (as amended by Stats. 1999, Ch. 991) by Stats. 2000, Ch. 1003, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2001. Operative July 1, 2001, by Sec. 56 of Ch. 1003. Note: Operation of the earlier amendment by Stats. 1999, Ch. 991, was delayed until July 1, 2001, by Sec. 75 of Ch. 991.)