Arizona Laws 47-2A524. Lessor’s right to identify goods to lease contract
A. After default by the lessee under the lease contract of the type described in section 47-2A523, subsection A or section 47-2A523, subsection C, paragraph 1 or, if agreed, after other default by the lessee, the lessor may:
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 47-2A524
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Goods: means all things that are movable at the time of identification to the lease contract, or are fixtures (section 47-2A309), but the term does not include money, documents, instruments, accounts, chattel paper, general intangibles or minerals or the like, including oil and gas, before extraction. See Arizona Laws 47-2A103
- Lease: means a transfer of the right to possession and use of goods for a term in return for consideration, but a sale, including a sale on approval or a sale or return, or retention or creation of a security interest is not a lease. See Arizona Laws 47-2A103
- Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
- Lease contract: means the total legal obligation that results from the lease agreement as affected by this chapter and any other applicable rules of law. See Arizona Laws 47-2A103
- Lessee: means a person who acquires the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See Arizona Laws 47-2A103
- Lessor: means a person who transfers the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See Arizona Laws 47-2A103
- Supplier: means a person from whom a lessor buys or leases goods to be leased under a finance lease. See Arizona Laws 47-2A103
1. Identify to the lease contract conforming goods not already identified if at the time the lessor learned of the default they were in the lessor’s or the supplier‘s possession or control; and
2. Dispose of goods (section 47-2A527, subsection A) that demonstrably have been intended for the particular lease contract even though those goods are unfinished.
B. If the goods are unfinished, in the exercise of reasonable commercial judgment for the purposes of avoiding loss and of effective realization, an aggrieved lessor or the supplier may either complete manufacture and wholly identify the goods to the lease contract or cease manufacture and lease, sell or otherwise dispose of the goods for scrap or salvage value or proceed in any other reasonable manner.