(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (C) of this section, this section applies if:

Terms Used In Ohio Code 1309.209

  • Account: includes health-care insurance receivables. See Ohio Code 1309.102
  • Account debtor: means a person who is obligated on an account, chattel paper, or general intangible. See Ohio Code 1309.102
  • Chattel paper: means a record that evidences both a monetary obligation and a security interest in specific goods, a security interest in specific goods and software used in the goods, a security interest in specific goods and license of software used in the goods, a lease of specific goods, or a lease of specific goods and license of software used in the goods. See Ohio Code 1309.102
  • 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 Ohio Code 1309.102

  • 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.
  • Payment intangible: means a general intangible under which the account debtor's principal obligation is a monetary obligation. See Ohio Code 1309.102
  • Secured party: means :

    (a) A person in whose favor a security interest is created or provided for under a security agreement, whether or not any obligation to be secured is outstanding;

    (b) A person that holds an agricultural lien;

    (c) A consignor;

    (d) A person to whom accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, or promissory notes have been sold;

    (e) A trustee, indenture trustee, agent, collateral agent, or other representative in whose favor a security interest or agricultural lien is created or provided for; or

    (f) A person who holds a security interest arising under section 1302. See Ohio Code 1309.102

(1) There is no outstanding secured obligation; and

(2) The secured party is not committed to make advances, incur obligations, or otherwise give value.

(B) Within ten days after receiving an authenticated demand by the debtor, a secured party shall send to an account debtor that has received notification of an assignment to the secured party as assignee under division (A) of section 1309.406 of the Revised Code an authenticated record that releases the account debtor from any further obligation to the secured party.

(C) This section does not apply to an assignment constituting the sale of an account, chattel paper, or payment intangible.