The following security interests are perfected when they attach:

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 47-9309

  • Bank: means an organization that is engaged in the business of banking. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
  • Collateral: means the property subject to a security interest or agricultural lien. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
  • Commodity account: means an account maintained by a commodity intermediary in which a commodity contract is carried for a commodity customer. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
  • Commodity intermediary: means a person that:

    (a) Is registered as a futures commission merchant under federal commodities law; or

    (b) In the ordinary course of its business provides clearance or settlement services for a board of trade that has been designated as a contract market pursuant to federal commodities law. See Arizona Laws 47-9102

  • Consumer goods: means goods that are used or bought for use primarily for personal, family or household purposes. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Debtor: means :

    (a) A person having an interest, other than a security interest or other lien, in the collateral, whether or not the person is an obligor;

    (b) A seller of accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles or promissory notes; or

    (c) A consignee. See Arizona Laws 47-9102

  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Goods: means all things that are movable when a security interest attaches. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
  • Health-care-insurance receivable: means an interest in or claim under a policy of insurance that is a right to payment of a monetary obligation for health care goods or services provided. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
  • Investment property: means a security, whether certificated or uncertificated, security entitlement, securities account, commodity contract or commodity account. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
  • Payment intangible: means a general intangible under which the account debtor's principal obligation is a monetary obligation. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
  • Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Promissory note: means an instrument that evidences a promise to pay a monetary obligation, does not evidence an order to pay and does not contain an acknowledgment by a bank that the bank has received for deposit a sum of money or funds. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.

1. A purchase money security interest in consumer goods, except as otherwise provided in section 47-9311, subsection B with respect to consumer goods that are subject to a statute or treaty described in section 47-9311, subsection A;

2. An assignment of accounts or payment intangibles that does not by itself or in conjunction with other assignments to the same assignee transfer a significant part of the assignor’s outstanding accounts or payment intangibles;

3. A sale of a payment intangible;

4. A sale of a promissory note;

5. A security interest created by the assignment of a health-care-insurance receivable to the provider of the health care goods or services;

6. A security interest arising under section 47-2401, section 47-2505, section 47-2711, subsection C or section 47-2A508, subsection E, until the debtor obtains possession of the collateral;

7. A security interest of a collecting bank arising under section 47-4210;

8. A security interest of an issuer or nominated person arising under section 47-5118;

9. A security interest arising in the delivery of a financial asset under section 47-9206, subsection C;

10. A security interest in investment property created by a broker or securities intermediary;

11. A security interest in a commodity contract or a commodity account created by a commodity intermediary;

12. An assignment for the benefit of all creditors of the transferor and subsequent transfers by the assignee thereunder; and

13. A security interest created by an assignment of a beneficial interest in a decedent‘s estate.