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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 440.9805

  • Collateral: means the property subject to a security interest or agricultural lien. See Michigan Laws 440.9102
  • Continuation statement: means an amendment of a financing statement which identifies, by its file number, the initial financing statement to which it relates and indicates that it is a continuation statement for, or that it is filed to continue the effectiveness of, the identified financing statement. See Michigan Laws 440.9102
  • Debtor: means 1 of the following:
    (i) A person having an interest, other than a security interest or other lien, in the collateral, whether or not the person is an obligor. See Michigan Laws 440.9102
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Financing statement: means a record or records composed of an initial financing statement and any filed record relating to the initial financing statement. See Michigan Laws 440.9102
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Representative: means a person empowered to act for another, including an agent, an officer of a corporation or association, and a trustee, executor, or administrator of an estate. See Michigan Laws 440.1201
  • Security interest: means an interest in personal property or fixtures which secures payment or performance of an obligation. See Michigan Laws 440.1201
  • State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Michigan Laws 440.9102
  • This amendatory act: means the amendatory act that added this part. See Michigan Laws 440.9801
  • This amended article: means this article as amended by this amendatory act. See Michigan Laws 440.9801
  • Transmitting utility: means a person primarily engaged in the business of 1 of the following:
  •     (i) Operating a railroad, subway, street railway, or trolley bus. See Michigan Laws 440.9102
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  •     (1) The filing of a financing statement before the effective date of this amendatory act is effective to perfect a security interest to the extent that the filing would satisfy the applicable requirements for perfection under this amended article.
        (2) This amendatory act does not render ineffective an effective financing statement that is filed before the effective date of this amendatory act and satisfies the applicable requirements for perfection under the law of the jurisdiction governing perfection as provided in this article as it existed before the effective date of this amendatory act. However, except as otherwise provided in subsections (3) and (4) and section 9806, the financing statement ceases to be effective at 1 of the following times, as applicable:
        (a) If the financing statement is filed in this state, at the time the financing statement would have ceased to be effective had this amendatory act not taken effect.
        (b) If the financing statement is filed in another jurisdiction, at the earlier of the following:
        (i) The time the financing statement would have ceased to be effective under the law of that jurisdiction.
        (ii) June 30, 2018.
        (3) The filing of a continuation statement after the effective date of this amendatory act does not continue the effectiveness of a financing statement filed before the effective date of this amendatory act. However, upon the timely filing of a continuation statement after the effective date of this amendatory act and in accordance with the law of the jurisdiction governing perfection as provided in this amended article, the effectiveness of a financing statement filed in the same office in that jurisdiction before the effective date of this amendatory act continues for the period provided by the law of that jurisdiction.
        (4) Subsection (2)(b)(ii) applies to a financing statement that is filed before the effective date of this amendatory act against a transmitting utility and satisfies the applicable requirements for perfection under the law of the jurisdiction governing perfection as provided in this article before the effective date of this amendatory act, only to the extent that this amended article provides that the law of a jurisdiction other than the jurisdiction in which the financing statement is filed governs perfection of a security interest in collateral covered by the financing statement.
        (5) A financing statement that includes a financing statement filed before the effective date of this amendatory act and a continuation statement filed after the effective date of this amendatory act is effective only to the extent that it satisfies the requirements of part 5 as amended by this amendatory act for an initial financing statement. A financing statement that indicates that the debtor is a decedent‘s estate indicates that the collateral is being administered by a personal representative within the meaning of section 9503(1)(b) as amended by this amendatory act. A financing statement that indicates that the debtor is a trust or is a trustee acting with respect to property held in trust indicates that the collateral is held in a trust within the meaning of section 9503(1)(c) as amended by this amendatory act.