North Carolina § 25-9-621 - Notification of proposal to accept collateral.

§ 25-9-621. Notification of proposal to accept collateral.

Persons to which proposal to be sent. - A secured party that desires to accept collateral in full or partial satisfaction of the obligation it secures shall send its proposal to: Any person from which the secured party has received, before the debtor consented to the acceptance, an authenticated notification of a claim of an interest in the collateral; Any other secured party or lienholder that, 10 days before the debtor consented to the acceptance, held a security interest in or other lien on the collateral perfected by the filing of a financing statement that: Identified the collateral; Was indexed under the debtor's name as of that date; and Was filed in the office or offices in which to file a financing statement against the debtor covering the collateral as of that date; and Any other secured party that, 10 days before the debtor consented to the acceptance, held a security interest in the collateral perfected by compliance with a statute, regulation, or treaty described in G.S. 25-9-311(a). Proposal to be sent to secondary obligor in partial satisfaction. - A secured party that desires to accept collateral in partial satisfaction of the obligation it secures shall send its proposal to any secondary obligor in addition to the persons described in subsection (a) of this section. History (1965, c. 700, s. 1; 1975, c. 862, s. 7; 2000-169, s. 1.) AMENDED OFFICIAL COMMENT (2010 EDITION) 1. Source. Former section 9-505. 2. Notification Requirement. Subsection (a) specifies three classes of competing claimants to whom the secured party must send notification of its proposal: (i) Those who notify the secured party that they claim an interest in the collateral; (ii) holders of certain security interests and liens who have filed against the debtor; and (iii) holders of certain security interests who have perfected by compliance with a statute (including a certificate of title statute), regulation, or treaty described in section 9-311(a). With regard to (ii), see section 9-611, comment 4. Subsection (b) also requires notification to any secondary obligor if the proposal is for acceptance in partial satisfaction. Unlike section 9-611, this section contains no "safe harbor," which excuses an enforcing secured party from notifying certain secured parties and other lienholders. This is because, unlike section 9-610, which requires that a disposition of collateral be commercially reasonable, section 9-620 permits the debtor and secured party to set the amount of credit the debtor will receive for the collateral subject only to the requirement of good faith. An effective acceptance discharges subordinate security interests and other subordinate liens. See section 9-622. If collateral is subject to several liens securing debts much larger than the value of the collateral, the debtor may be disinclined to refrain from consenting to an acceptance by the holder of the senior security interest, even though, had the debtor objected and the senior disposed of the collateral under section 9-610, the collateral may have yielded more than enough to satisfy the senior security interest (but not enough to satisfy all the liens). Accordingly, this section imposes upon the enforcing secured party the risk of the filing office's errors and delay. The holder of a security interest who is entitled to notification under this section but to whom the enforcing secured party does not send notification has the right to recover under section 9-625(b) any loss resulting from the secured party's noncompliance with this section. Editor's Note. - Session Laws 2012-70, s. 27, provides: "The Revisor of Statutes shall cause to be printed, as annotations to the published General Statutes, all relevant portions of the Official Comments to the 2010 Amendments to Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code and all explanatory comments of the drafters of this act as the Revisor may deem appropriate." The Revision of Uniform Commercial Code Article 9 - Secured Transactions was drafted by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and The American Law Institute on April 27, 2011. The Official Commentary for the 2010 revision are copyrighted 2010 by The American Law Institute and National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. The affected portions of the Official Comment to this section have been set out at this section with the appropriate amendments.