Ohio Code 1309.604 – Procedure if security agreement covers real property or fixtures – UCC 9-604
(A) If a security agreement covers both personal and real property, a secured party may proceed:
Terms Used In Ohio Code 1309.604
- Collateral: means the property subject to a security interest or agricultural lien, including:
(a) Proceeds to which a security interest attaches;
(b) Accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, and promissory notes that have been sold; and
(c) Goods that are the subject of a consignment. See Ohio Code 1309.102
- Debtor: means :
(a) A person having an interest, other than a security interest or other lien, in the collateral, whether or not the person is an obligor;
(b) A seller of accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, or promissory notes; or
(c) A consignee. See Ohio Code 1309.102
- Fixtures: means goods that have become so related to particular real property that an interest in them arises under real property law. See Ohio Code 1309.102
- Goods: includes (i) fixtures, (ii) standing timber that is to be cut and removed under a conveyance or contract for sale, (iii) the unborn young of animals, (iv) crops grown, growing, or to be grown, even if the crops are produced on trees, vines, or bushes, and (v) manufactured homes. See Ohio Code 1309.102
- 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.
- Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Personal property: All property that is not real property.
- Property: means real and personal property. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
- Secured party: means :
(a) A person in whose favor a security interest is created or provided for under a security agreement, whether or not any obligation to be secured is outstanding;
(b) A person that holds an agricultural lien;
(c) A consignor;
(d) A person to whom accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, or promissory notes have been sold;
(e) A trustee, indenture trustee, agent, collateral agent, or other representative in whose favor a security interest or agricultural lien is created or provided for; or
(f) A person who holds a security interest arising under section 1302. See Ohio Code 1309.102
- Security agreement: means an agreement that creates or provides for a security interest. See Ohio Code 1309.102
(1) Under sections 1309.601 to 1309.628 of the Revised Code as to the personal property without prejudicing any rights with respect to the real property; or
(2) As to both the personal property and the real property, in accordance with the rights with respect to the real property, in which case the other provisions of sections 1309.601 to 1309.628 of the Revised Code do not apply.
(B) Subject to division (C) of this section, if a security agreement covers goods that are or become fixtures, a secured party may proceed:
(1) Under sections 1309.601 to 1309.628 of the Revised Code; or
(2) In accordance with the rights with respect to real property, in which case the other provisions of sections 1309.601 to 1309.628 of the Revised Code do not apply.
(C) Subject to the other provisions of sections 1309.601 to 1309.628 of the Revised Code, if a secured party holding a security interest in fixtures has priority over all owners and encumbrancers of the real property, the secured party, after default, may remove the collateral from the real property.
(D) A secured party who removes collateral shall reimburse promptly any encumbrancer or owner of the real property, other than the debtor, for the cost of repair of any physical injury caused by the removal. The secured party need not reimburse the encumbrancer or owner for any diminution in value of the real property caused by the absence of the goods removed or by any necessity of replacing them. A person entitled to reimbursement may refuse permission to remove until the secured party gives adequate assurance for the performance of the obligation to reimburse.