2000 Florida Code
TITLE XXXIX COMMERCIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 679 Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions  
PART I SHORT TITLE, APPLICABILITY, AND DEFINITIONS (ss. 679.101-679.116)
679.102   Policy and subject matter of chapter.

679.102  Policy and subject matter of chapter.--

(1)  Except as otherwise provided in s. 679.104 on excluded transactions, this chapter applies:

(a)  To any transaction (regardless of its form) which is intended to create a security interest in personal property or fixtures including goods, documents, instruments, general intangibles, chattel paper, or accounts; and also

(b)  To any sale of accounts or chattel paper.

(2)  This chapter applies to security interests created by contract including pledge, assignment, chattel mortgage, chattel trust, trust deed, factor's lien, equipment trust, conditional sale, trust receipt, other lien or title retention contract and lease or consignment intended as security. This chapter does not apply to statutory liens except as provided in s. 679.310.

(3)  The application of this chapter to a security interest in a secured obligation is not affected by the fact that the obligation is itself secured by a transaction or interest to which this chapter does not apply.

History.--s. 1, ch. 65-254; s. 6, ch. 79-398.

Note.--s. 9-102, U.C.C.