Colorado § 4-9-803 - Security interest perfected before effective date.
Full text of Colorado Colorado Revised Statutes § 4-9-803 — Security interest perfected before effective date., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 4-9-803. Security interest perfected before effective date.
(a) A security interest that is a perfected security interest immediately before July 1, 2013, is a perfected security interest under this article, as amended, if, when House Bill 12-1262, enacted in 2012, takes effect, the applicable requirements for attachment and perfection under this article, as amended by House Bill 12-1262, enacted in 2012, are satisfied without further action.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in section 4-9-805, which controls with respect to security interests perfected by the filing of a financing statement pursuant to part 5 of this article as it existed before July 1, 2013, if, immediately before July 1, 2013, a security interest is a perfected security interest but the applicable requirements for perfection under this article, as amended by House Bill 12-1262, enacted in 2012, are not satisfied by July 1, 2013, the security interest remains perfected thereafter only if the applicable requirements for perfection under this article, as amended by House Bill 12-1262, enacted in 2012, are satisfied within one year after July 1, 2013.
Source: L. 2012: Entire part added, (HB 12-1262), ch. 170, p. 605, § 16, effective July 1, 2013.
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