30-9A-611. Notification before disposition of collateral. (1) In this section, "notification date" means the earlier of the date on which:

(a) a secured party sends to the debtor and any secondary obligor an authenticated notification of disposition; or

(b) the debtor and any secondary obligor waive the right to notification.

(2) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (4), a secured party that disposes of collateral under 30-9A-610 shall send to the persons specified in subsection (3) a reasonable authenticated notification of disposition.

(3) To comply with subsection (2), the secured party shall send an authenticated notification of disposition to:

(a) the debtor;

(b) any secondary obligor; and

(c) if the collateral is other than consumer goods:

(i) any other person from which the secured party has received, before the notification date, an authenticated notification of a claim of an interest in the collateral;

(ii) any other secured party that, 10 days before the notification date, held a security interest in or agricultural lien on the collateral perfected by the filing of a financing statement that:

(A) identified the collateral;

(B) was indexed under the debtor's name as of that date; and

(C) was filed in the office in which to file a financing statement against the debtor covering the collateral as of that date; and

(iii) any other secured party that, 10 days before the notification date, held a security interest in the collateral perfected by compliance with a statute, regulation, or treaty described in 30-9A-311(1).

(4) Subsection (2) does not apply if the collateral is perishable or threatens to decline speedily in value or is of a type customarily sold on a recognized market.

(5) A secured party complies with the requirement for notification prescribed in subsection (3)(c)(ii) if:

(a) not later than 20 days or earlier than 30 days before the notification date, the secured party requests, in a commercially reasonable manner, information concerning financing statements indexed under the debtor's name in the office indicated in subsection (3)(c)(ii); and

(b) before the notification date, the secured party:

(i) did not receive a response to the request for information; or

(ii) received a response to the request for information and sent an authenticated notification of disposition to each secured party named in that response and whose financing statement covered the collateral.

History: En. Sec. 108, Ch. 305, L. 1999; Sec. 30-9-611, MCA 1999; redes. 30-9A-611 by Code Commissioner, 2001.