(1)  A lessor aggrieved under Section 70A-2a-523 may:

Terms Used In Utah Code 70A-2a-524

  • 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. See Utah Code 70A-2a-103
  • Lease: means a transfer of the right to possession and use of goods for a term, in return for consideration. See Utah Code 70A-2a-103
  • 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 Utah Code 70A-2a-103
  • Lessor: means a person who transfers the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See Utah Code 70A-2a-103
  • Supplier: means a person from whom a lessor buys or leases goods to be leased under a finance lease. See Utah Code 70A-2a-103
(a)  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

(b)  dispose of goods as provided in Subsection 70A-2a-527(1) that demonstrably have been intended for the particular lease contract even though those goods are unfinished.

(2)  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.

Enacted by Chapter 197, 1990 General Session