§9-705. Effectiveness of action taken before July 1, 2001

(a) Pre-effective date action; one-year perfection period unless reperfected. If action other than the filing of a financing statement, is taken before July 1, 2001 and the action would have resulted in priority of a security interest over the rights of a person that becomes a lien creditor had the security interest become enforceable before July 1, 2001, the action is effective to perfect a security interest that attaches under this Chapter within one year after July 1, 2001. Except as otherwise provided in Subsection (g), an attached security interest becomes unperfected one year after July 1, 2001 unless the security interest becomes a perfected security interest under this Chapter before the expiration of that period.

(b) Pre-effective date filing. The filing of a financing statement before July 1, 2001 is effective to perfect a security interest to the extent the filing would satisfy the applicable requirements for perfection under this Chapter.

(c) Pre-effective date filing in jurisdiction formerly governing perfection. This Chapter does not render ineffective an effective pre-effective-date financing statement that, before July 1, 2001, is filed and satisfies the applicable requirements for perfection under the law of the jurisdiction governing perfection as provided in R.S. 10:9-103 of former Chapter 9. However, except as otherwise provided in Subsections (d) and (e) and R.S. 10:9-706, the pre-effective date financing statement ceases to be effective at the earlier of:

(1) the time the pre-effective date financing statement would have ceased to be effective under the law of the jurisdiction in which it is filed; or

(2) June 30, 2006.

(d) Continuation statement. The filing of a continuation statement on or after July 1, 2001 does not continue the effectiveness of a pre-effective-date financing statement. However, upon the timely filing of a continuation statement on or after July 1, 2001 and in accordance with the law of the jurisdiction governing perfection as provided in Part 3, the effectiveness of a pre-effective-date financing statement filed in the same office in that jurisdiction continues for the period provided by the law of that jurisdiction.

(e) Application of Subsection (c)(2) to transmitting utility financing statement. Subsection (c)(2) applies to a financing statement that, before July 1, 2001, is filed against a transmitting utility and satisfies the applicable requirements for perfection under the law of the jurisdiction governing perfection as provided in R.S. 10:9-103 of former Chapter 9 only to the extent that Part 3 provides that the law of a jurisdiction other than jurisdiction in which the financing statement is filed governs perfection of a security interest in collateral covered by the financing statement.

(f) Application of Part 5. A financing statement that includes a pre-effective-date financing statement and a continuation statement filed on or after July 1, 2001 is effective only to the extent that it satisfies the requirements of Part 5 for an initial financing statement.

(g) Security interests under certain mortgages. If a security interest under R.S. 12:702, R.S. 12:704, R.S. 9:5357 through 5366.2, or R.S. 9:5367 through 5373 both immediately before January 1, 1990, was enforceable and would have had priority over the rights of a person that became a lien creditor at that time, and immediately before July 1, 2001, is enforceable and would have priority over the rights of a person that becomes a lien creditor at that time, but the applicable requirements for enforceability or perfection under this Chapter are not satisfied on July 1, 2001, the security interest:

(1) is a perfected security interest until the earlier of the time the effect of recordation of the mortgage or chattel mortgage ceases or June 30, 2006;

(2) remains enforceable thereafter only if the security interest becomes enforceable under R.S. 10:9-203 before the expiration of the time specified in Subsection (g)(1); and

(3) remains perfected thereafter only if the applicable requirements for perfection under this Chapter are satisfied before the expiration of the time specified in Subsection (g)(1).

Acts 2001, No. 128, §1, eff. July 1, 2001.