2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 355 - UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE
Article 2A - Leases
2A.2A-511 Merchant lessee's duties as to rightfully rejected goods.
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355.2A-511 Merchant lessee's duties as to rightfully rejected goods.
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Subject to any security interest of a lessee (subsection (5) of KRS
355.2A-508), if a lessor or a supplier has no agent or place of business at the
market of rejection, a merchant lessee, after rejection of goods in his
possession or control, shall follow any reasonable instructions received from
the lessor or the supplier with respect to the goods. In the absence of those
instructions, a merchant lessee shall make reasonable efforts to sell, lease, or
otherwise dispose of the goods for the lessor's account if they threaten to
decline in value speedily. Instructions are not reasonable if on demand
indemnity for expenses is not forthcoming.
If a merchant lessee (subsection (1)) or any other lessee (KRS 355.2A-512)
disposes of goods, he is entitled to reimbursement either from the lessor or the
supplier or out of the proceeds for reasonable expenses of caring for and
disposing of the goods and, if the expenses include no disposition commission,
to such commission as is usual in the trade, or if there is none, to a reasonable
sum not exceeding ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds.
In complying with this section or KRS 355.2A-512, the lessee is held only to
good faith. Good faith conduct hereunder is neither acceptance or conversion
nor the basis of an action for damages.
A purchaser who purchases in good faith from a lessee pursuant to this section
or KRS 355.2A-512 takes the goods free of any rights of the lessor and the
supplier even though the lessee fails to comply with one (1) or more of the
requirements of this article.
Effective:January 1, 1991
History: Created 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 363, sec. 58, effective January 1, 1991.
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