Alabama § 7-9A-705 - Effectiveness of Action Taken Before January 1, 2002.

§ 7-9A-705. Effectiveness of Action Taken Before January 1, 2002.

(a) Pre-effective-date action; one-year perfection period unless reperfected. If action, other than the filing of a financing statement, is taken before January 1, 2002, and the action would have resulted in priority of a security interest over the rights of a person that becomes a lien creditor had the security interest become enforceable before January 1, 2002, the action is effective to perfect a security interest that attaches under this article within one year after January 1, 2002. An attached security interest becomes unperfected one year after January 1, 2002, unless the security interest becomes a perfected security interest under this article before the expiration of that period.

(b) Pre-effective-date filing. The filing of a financing statement before January 1, 2002, is effective to perfect a security interest to the extent the filing would satisfy the applicable requirements for perfection under this article.

(c) Pre-effective-date filing in jurisdiction formerly governing perfection. This article does not render ineffective an effective financing statement that, before January 1, 2002, is filed and satisfies the applicable requirements for perfection under the law of the jurisdiction governing perfection as provided in former Section 7-9-103. However, except as otherwise provided in subsections (d) and (e) and Section 7-9A-706, the financing statement ceases to be effective at the earlier of:

(1) the time the financing statement would have ceased to be effective under the law of the jurisdiction in which it is filed; or

(2) December 31, 2006.

(d) Continuation statement. The filing of a continuation statement after January 1, 2002, does not continue the effectiveness of the financing statement filed before January 1, 2002. However, upon the timely filing of a continuation statement after January 1, 2002, and in accordance with the law of the jurisdiction governing perfection as provided in Part 3, the effectiveness of a financing statement filed in the same office in that jurisdiction before January 1, 2002, continues for the period provided by the law of that jurisdiction.

(e) Application of subsection (c)(2) to transmitting utility financing statement. Subsection (c)(2) applies to a financing statement that, before January 1, 2002, is filed against a transmitting utility and satisfies the applicable requirements for perfection under the law of the jurisdiction governing perfection as provided in former Section 7-9-103 only to the extent that Part 3 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.

(f) Application of Part 5. A financing statement that includes a financing statement filed before January 1, 2002, and a continuation statement filed after January 1, 2002, is effective only to the extent that it satisfies the requirements of Part 5 for an initial financing statement.