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Florida Statutes ~ Secured Transactions

The following information contains direct links to Florida’s official Secured Transactions Statutes. This information is highly useful if you need to make reference to a particular portion of Florida’s Secured Transaction laws (a/k/a UCC 9). We are working on compiling an outline on the subject, so, if you need additional study material for Secured Transactions, please check back with us. Thank you.

Note: The statutes containing an asterisk * indicate areas that the Florida Board of Bar Examiners tend to focus on when testing Secured Transactions.

Chapter	Title
679.1011	Short title.*
679.1021	Definitions and index of definitions.*
679.1031	Purchase-money security interest; application of payments; burden of establishing.
679.1041	Control of deposit account.
679.1051	Control of electronic chattel paper.
679.1061	Control of investment property.
679.1071	Control of letter-of-credit right.
679.1081	Sufficiency of description.
679.1091	Scope.*
679.1101	Security interests arising under chapter 672 or chapter 680.
679.2011	General effectiveness of security agreement.*
679.2021	Title to collateral immaterial.
679.2031	Attachment and enforceability of security interest; proceeds; supporting obligations; formal requisites.*
679.2041	After-acquired property; future advances.
679.2051	Use or disposition of collateral permissible.
679.2061	Security interest arising in purchase or delivery of financial asset.
679.2071	Rights and duties of secured party having possession or control of collateral.*
679.2081	Additional duties of secured party having control of collateral.
679.209	Duties of secured party if account debtor has been notified of assignment.
679.210	Request for accounting; request regarding list of collateral or statement of account.
679.3011	Law governing perfection and priority of security interests.*
679.3021	Law governing perfection and priority of agricultural liens.*
679.3031	Law governing perfection and priority of security interests in goods covered by a certificate of title.*
679.3041	Law governing perfection and priority of security interests in deposit accounts.*
679.3051	Law governing perfection and priority of security interests in investment property.*
679.3061	Law governing perfection and priority of security interests in letter-of-credit rights.*
679.3071	Location of debtor.
679.3081	When security interest or agricultural lien is perfected; continuity of perfection.*
679.3091	Security interest perfected upon attachment.*
679.3101	When filing required to perfect security interest or agricultural lien; security interests and agricultural liens to which filing provisions do not apply.*
679.3111	Perfection of security interests in property subject to certain statutes, regulations, and treaties.
679.3121	Perfection of security interests in chattel paper, deposit accounts, documents, goods covered by documents, instruments, investment property, letter-of-credit rights, and money; perfection by permissive filing; temporary perfection without filing.*
679.3131	When possession by or delivery to secured party perfects security interest without filing.*
679.3141	Perfection by control.
679.3151	Secured party’s rights on disposition of collateral and in proceeds.
679.3161	Continued perfection of security interest following change in governing law.
679.3171	Interests that take priority over or take free of security interest or agricultural lien.
679.3181	No interest retained in right to payment that is sold; rights and title of seller of account or chattel paper with respect to creditors and purchasers.
679.319	Rights and title of consignee with respect to creditors and purchasers.*
679.320	Buyer of goods.
679.321	Licensee of general intangible and lessee of goods in ordinary course of business.
679.322	Priorities among conflicting security interests in and agricultural liens on same collateral.*
679.323	Future advances.
679.324	Priority of purchase-money security interests.*
679.325	Priority of security interests in transferred collateral.*
679.326	Priority of security interests created by new debtor.*
679.327	Priority of security interests in deposit account.*
679.328	Priority of security interests in investment property.*
679.329	Priority of security interests in letter-of-credit right.*
679.330	Priority of purchaser of chattel paper or instrument.*
679.331	Priority of rights of purchasers of instruments, documents, and securities under other articles; priority of interests in financial assets and security entitlements under chapter 678.*
679.332	Transfer of money; transfer of funds from deposit account.
679.333	Priority of certain liens arising by operation of law.*
679.334	Priority of security interests in fixtures and crops.*
679.335	Accessions.
679.336	Commingled goods.
679.337	Priority of security interests in goods covered by certificate of title.*
679.338	Priority of security interest or agricultural lien perfected by filed financing statement providing certain incorrect information.*
679.339	Priority subject to subordination.*
679.340	Effectiveness of right of recoupment or set-off against deposit account.
679.341	Bank’s rights and duties with respect to deposit account.
679.342	Bank’s right to refuse to enter into or disclose existence of control agreement.*
679.40111	Alienability of debtor’s rights.
679.4021	Secured party not obligated on contract of debtor or in tort.
679.4031	Agreement not to assert defenses against assignee.
679.4041	Rights acquired by assignee; claims and defenses against assignee.
679.4051	Modification of assigned contract.
679.4061	Discharge of account debtor; notification of assignment; identification and proof of assignment; restrictions on assignment of accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, and promissory notes ineffective.
679.4071	Restrictions on creation or enforcement of security interest in leasehold interest or in lessor’s residual interest.
679.4081	Restrictions on assignment of promissory notes, health-care-insurance receivables, and certain general intangibles ineffective.
679.409	Restrictions on assignment of letter-of-credit rights ineffective.
679.5011	Filing office.*
679.5021	Contents of financing statement; record of mortgage as financing statement; time of filing financing statement.*
679.5031	Name of debtor and secured party.*
679.5041	Indication of collateral.
679.5051	Filing and compliance with other statutes and treaties for consignments, leases, bailments, and other transactions.
679.5061	Effect of errors or omissions.*
679.5071	Effect of certain events on effectiveness of financing statement.*
679.508	Effectiveness of financing statement if new debtor becomes bound by security agreement.*
679.509	Persons entitled to file a record.*
679.510	Effectiveness of filed record.
679.511	Secured party of record.
679.512	Amendment of financing statement.
679.513	Termination statement.
679.514	Assignment of powers of secured party of record.*
679.515	Duration and effectiveness of financing statement; effect of lapsed financing statement.*
679.516	What constitutes filing; effectiveness of filing.*
679.517	Effect of indexing errors.
679.518	Claim concerning inaccurate or wrongfully filed record.*
679.519	Numbering, maintaining, and indexing records; communicating information provided in records.
679.520	Acceptance and refusal to accept record.
679.521	Uniform form of written financing statement and amendment.
679.522	Maintenance and destruction of records.
679.523	Information from filing office; sale or license of records.
679.524	Delay by filing office.*
679.525	Processing fees.
679.526	Filing-office rules.*
679.527	Florida Secured Transaction Registry.
679.601	Rights after default; judicial enforcement; consignor or buyer of accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, or promissory notes.*
679.602	Waiver and variance of rights and duties.*
679.603	Agreement on standards concerning rights and duties.*
679.604	Procedure if security agreement covers real property or fixtures.*
679.605	Unknown debtor or secondary obligor.
679.606	Time of default for agricultural lien.*
679.607	Collection and enforcement by secured party.*
679.608	Application of proceeds of collection or enforcement; liability for deficiency and right to surplus.
679.609	Secured party’s right to take possession after default.*
679.610	Disposition of collateral after default.
679.611	Notification before disposition of collateral.
679.612	Timeliness of notification before disposition of collateral.
679.613	Contents and form of notification before disposition of collateral; general.
679.614	Contents and form of notification before disposition of collateral; consumer-goods transaction.
679.615	Application of proceeds of disposition; liability for deficiency and right to surplus.
679.616	Explanation of calculation of surplus or deficiency.
679.617	Rights of transferee of collateral.
679.618	Rights and duties of certain secondary obligors.
679.619	Transfer of record or legal title.
679.620	Acceptance of collateral in full or partial satisfaction of obligation; compulsory disposition of collateral.
679.621	Notification of proposal to accept collateral.
679.622	Effect of acceptance of collateral.
679.623	Right to redeem collateral.
679.624	Waiver.
679.625	Remedies for failure to comply with article.*
679.626	Action in which deficiency or surplus is in issue.
679.627	Determination of whether conduct was commercially reasonable.
679.628	Nonliability and limitation on liability of secured party; liability of secondary obligor.
679.701	Effective date.
679.702	Savings clause.
679.703	Security interest perfected before effective date.
679.704	Security interest unperfected before effective date.
679.705	Effectiveness of action taken before effective date.
679.706	When initial financing statement suffices to continue effectiveness of financing statement.*
679.707	Amendment or pre-effective date financing statement.
679.708	Persons entitled to file initial financing statement or continuation statement.*
679.709	Priority.*
679.801	Saving clause.
679.802	Security interest perfected before effective date.
679.803	Security interest unperfected before effective date.
679.804	Effectiveness of action taken before effective date.
679.805	When initial financing statement suffices to continue effectiveness of financing statement.*
679.806	Amendment of financing statement filed before July 1, 2013.*
679.807	Person entitled to file initial financing statement or continuation statement.*
679.808	Priority.*