30-9A-505. Filing and compliance with other statutes and treaties for consignments, leases, bailments, and other transactions. (1) A consignor, lessor, or bailor of goods or a buyer of a payment intangible or promissory note may file a financing statement or may comply with a statute or treaty described in 30-9A-311(1), using the terms “consignor”, “consignee”, “lessor”, “lessee”, “bailor”, “bailee”, “owner”, “registered owner”, “buyer”, “seller”, or words of similar import, instead of the terms “secured party” and “debtor.”

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Terms Used In Montana Code 30-9A-505

  • Collateral: means the property subject to a security interest or agricultural lien. See Montana Code 30-9A-102
  • Consignor: means a person that delivers goods to a consignee in a consignment. See Montana Code 30-9A-102
  • Financing statement: means a record or records composed of an initial financing statement and any filed record relating to the initial financing statement. See Montana Code 30-9A-102
  • Goods: means all things that are movable when a security interest attaches. See Montana Code 30-9A-102
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Payment intangible: means a general intangible under which the account debtor's principal obligation is a monetary obligation. See Montana Code 30-9A-102
  • Promissory note: means an instrument that:

    (i)evidences a promise to pay a monetary obligation;

    (ii)does not evidence an order to pay; and

    (iii)does not contain an acknowledgment by a bank that the bank has received for deposit a sum of money or funds. See Montana Code 30-9A-102

  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.

(2)This part applies to the filing of a financing statement under subsection (1) and, as appropriate, to compliance that is equivalent to filing a financing statement under 30-9A-311(2), but the filing or compliance is not of itself a factor in determining whether the collateral secures an obligation. If it is determined for another reason that the collateral secures an obligation, a security interest held by the consignor, lessor, bailor, owner, or buyer that attaches to the collateral is perfected by the filing or compliance.