2006 Ohio Revised Code - 1309.314. (UCC 9-314) Perfection by control.

§ 1309.314. (UCC 9-314) Perfection by control.
 

(A)  A security interest in investment property, deposit accounts, letter-of-credit rights, or electronic chattel paper may be perfected by control of the collateral under section 1309.104, 1309.105, 1309.106, or 1309.107 of the Revised Code. 

(B)  A security interest in deposit accounts, electronic chattel paper, or letter-of-credit rights is perfected by control under section 1309.104, 1309.105, or 1309.107 of the Revised Code when the secured party obtains control and remains perfected by control only while the secured party retains control. 

(C)  A security interest in investment property is perfected by control under Section 1309.106 of the Revised Code from the time the secured party obtains control and remains perfected by control until: 

(1) The secured party does not have control; and 

(2) One of the following occurs: 

(a) If the collateral is a certificated security, the debtor has or acquires possession of the security certificate; 

(b) If the collateral is an uncertificated security, the issuer has registered or registers the debtor as the registered owner; or 

(c) If the collateral is a security entitlement, the debtor is or becomes the entitlement holder. 
 

HISTORY: 149 v S 74. Eff 7-1-2001.
 

The effective date is set by section 4 of SB 74. 

 

Official Comment

1. Source. Substantially new; derived in part from former section 9-115(4). 

2. Control. This section provides for perfection by control with respect to investment property, deposit accounts, letter-of-credit rights, and electronic chattel paper. For explanations of how a secured party takes control of these types of collateral, see sections 9-104 through 9-107. Subsection (b) explains when a security interest is perfected by control and how long a security interest remains perfected by control. Like section 9-313(d) and for the same reasons, subsection (b) makes no reference to the doctrine of "relation back." See section 9-313, comment 5. 

3. Investment Property. Subsection (c) provides a special rule for investment property. Once a secured party has control, its security interest remains perfected by control until the secured party ceases to have control and the debtor receives possession of collateral that is a certificated security, becomes the registered owner of collateral that is an uncertificated security, or becomes the entitlement holder of collateral that is a security entitlement. The result is particularly important in the "repledge" context. See section 9-207, comment 5. 

In a transaction in which a secured party who has control grants a security interest in investment property or sells outright the investment property, by virtue of the debtor's consent or applicable legal rules, a purchaser from the secured party typically will cut off the debtor's rights in the investment property or be immune from the debtor's claims. See section 9-207, comments 5 and 6. If the investment property is a security, the debtor normally would retain no interest in the security following the purchase from the secured party, and a claim of the debtor against the secured party for redemption (section 9-623) or otherwise with respect to the security would be a purely personal claim. If the investment property transferred by the secured party is a financial asset in which the debtor had a security entitlement credited to a securities account maintained with the secured party as a securities intermediary, the debtor's claim against the secured party could arise as a part of its securities account notwithstanding its personal nature. (This claim would be analogous to a "credit balance" in the securities account, which is a component of the securities account even though it is a personal claim against the intermediary.) In the case in which the debtor may retain an interest in investment property notwithstanding a repledge or sale by the secured party, subsection (c) makes clear that the security interest will remain perfected by control.