554.9320  Buyer of goods.

1.  Buyer in ordinary course of business.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection 5, a buyer in ordinary course of business, other than a person buying farm products from a person engaged in farming operations, takes free of a security interest created by the buyer's seller, even if the security interest is perfected and the buyer knows of its existence.

2.  Buyer of consumer goods.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection 5, a buyer of goods from a person who used or bought the goods for use primarily for personal, family, or household purposes takes free of a security interest, even if perfected, if the buyer buys:

a.  without knowledge of the security interest;

b.  for value;

c.  primarily for the buyer's personal, family, or household purposes; and

d.  before the filing of a financing statement covering the goods.

3.  Effectiveness of filing for subsection 2.  To the extent that it affects the priority of a security interest over a buyer of goods under subsection 2, the period of effectiveness of a filing made in the jurisdiction in which the seller is located is governed by section 554.9316, subsections 1 and 2.

4.  Buyer in ordinary course of business at wellhead or minehead.  A buyer in ordinary course of business buying oil, gas, or other minerals at the wellhead or minehead or after extraction takes free of an interest arising out of an encumbrance.

5.  Possessory security interest not affected.  Subsections 1 and 2 do not affect a security interest in goods in the possession of the secured party under section 554.9313.

Section History: Recent form

  2000 Acts, ch 1149, §40, 187

Internal References

  Referred to in § 554.7503, 554.9317

Footnotes

  Effective July 1, 2001; 2000 Acts, ch 1149, §187; for law prior to July 1, 2001, see Code 2001


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