Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 10:9-621

  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • person: includes a body of persons, whether incorporated or not. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 1:10
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.

(a)  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:

(1)  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;

(2)  any other secured party or lienholder that, ten days before the debtor consented to the acceptance, held a security interest in or lien on the collateral perfected by the filing of a financing statement that:

(A)  identified the collateral;

(B)  was indexed under the debtor’s name as of that date; and

(C)  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

(3)  any other secured party that, ten 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 La. Rev. Stat. 10:9-311(a).

(b)  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).

Acts 2001, No. 128, §1, eff. July 1, 2001.