(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section and section 42a-9-309, a security interest is perfected if it has attached and all of the applicable requirements for perfection in sections 42a-9-310 to 42a-9-316, inclusive, have been satisfied. A security interest is perfected when it attaches if the applicable requirements are satisfied before the security interest attaches.

(b) An agricultural lien is perfected if it has become effective and all of the applicable requirements for perfection in section 42a-9-310 have been satisfied. An agricultural lien is perfected when it becomes effective if the applicable requirements are satisfied before the agricultural lien becomes effective.

(c) A security interest or agricultural lien is perfected continuously if it is originally perfected by one method under this article and is later perfected by another method under this article, without an intermediate period when it was unperfected.

(d) Perfection of a security interest in collateral also perfects a security interest in a supporting obligation for the collateral.

(e) Perfection of a security interest in a right to payment or performance also perfects a security interest in a security interest, mortgage or other lien on personal or real property securing the right.

(f) Perfection of a security interest in a securities account also perfects a security interest in the security entitlements carried in the securities account.

(g) Perfection of a security interest in a commodity account also perfects a security interest in the commodity contracts carried in the commodity account.

(1959, P.A. 133, S. 9-308; P.A. 76-369, S. 24; P.A. 01-132, S. 28.)

History: P.A. 76-369 rephrased provision re priority of purchaser of chattel paper or instrument over security interest and deleted “nonnegotiable” as modifier of “instrument”; P.A. 01-132 replaced former provisions re when a purchaser of chattel paper or an instrument has priority over a security interest in the chattel paper or instrument with provisions re when a security interest or agricultural lien is perfected and the continuity of perfection.

Annotation to former section 42a-9-303(1):

Cited. 221 C. 77.