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Public Act 91-0893

SB1231 Enrolled                                LRB9106284WHdv

    AN ACT in relation to secured transactions.

    Be it  enacted  by  the  People  of  the  State  of  Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:

    Section 5.  The Uniform Commercial  Code  is  amended  by
changing  Sections  9-101, 9-102, 9-103, 9-104, 9-105, 9-106,
9-107, 9-108,  9-109,  9-110,  9-112,  9-113,  9-114,  9-115,
9-116,  9-150,  9-201,  9-202,  9-203, 9-204, 9-205, 9-205.1,
9-206, 9-207,  9-208,  9-301,  9-302,  9-303,  9-304,  9-305,
9-306,  9-306.01,  9-306.02,  9-307, 9-307.1, 9-307.2, 9-308,
9-309, 9-310,  9-311,  9-312,  9-313,  9-314,  9-315,  9-316,
9-317,  9-318,  9-401,  9-401A,  9-402,  9-403, 9-404, 9-405,
9-406, 9-407,  9-408,  9-410,  9-501,  9-502,  9-503,  9-504,
9-505,  9-506,  9-507,  9-9901,  and  9-9902, adding Sections
9-209, 9-210,  9-315.01,  9-315.02,  9-319,  9-320,  9-320.1,
9-320.2,  9-321,  9-322,  9-323,  9-324, 9-325, 9-326, 9-327,
9-328, 9-329,  9-330,  9-331,  9-332,  9-333,  9-334,  9-335,
9-336,  9-337,  9-338,  9-339,  9-340,  9-341,  9-342, 9-409,
9-508, 9-509,  9-510,  9-511,  9-512,  9-513,  9-514,  9-515,
9-516,  9-517,  9-518,  9-519,  9-520,  9-521,  9-522, 9-523,
9-524, 9-525,  9-526,  9-527,  9-601,  9-602,  9-603,  9-604,
9-605,  9-606,  9-607,  9-608,  9-609,  9-610,  9-611, 9-612,
9-613, 9-614,  9-615,  9-616,  9-617,  9-618,  9-619,  9-620,
9-621,  9-622,  9-623,  9-624,  9-625,  9-626,  9-627, 9-628,
9-701, 9-702,  9-703,  9-704,  9-705,  9-706,  9-707,  9-708,
9-709,  and  9-710,  changing  the  headings of Article 9 and
Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 99 of Article 9, and adding headings
of Parts 6 and 7 of Article 9, Subparts 1 and 2 of Part 1  of
Article  9, Subparts 1 and 2 of Part 2 of Article 9, Subparts
1, 2, 3, and 4 of Part 3 of Article 9, Subparts 1  and  2  of
Part  5  of  Article  9,  and  Subparts  1 and 2 of Part 6 of
Article 9 as follows:
    (810 ILCS 5/Art. 9 heading)
                          ARTICLE 9
          SECURED TRANSACTIONS: SALES OF ACCOUNTS,
              CONTRACT RIGHTS AND CHATTEL PAPER

    (810 ILCS 5/Art. 9, Part 1 heading)
                 PART 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
         SHORT TITLE, APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS

    (810 ILCS 5/Art. 9, Part 1, Subpart 1 heading new)
 SUBPART 1.  SHORT TITLE, DEFINITIONS, AND GENERAL CONCEPTS

    (810 ILCS 5/9-101) (from Ch. 26, par. 9-101)
    Sec. 9-101. Short title.  This Article may  be  cited  as
Uniform  Commercial  Code-Secured  Transactions. Short title.
This Article shall be known  and  may  be  cited  as  Uniform
Commercial Code--Secured Transactions.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 2101.)

    (810 ILCS 5/9-102) (from Ch. 26, par. 9-102)
    Sec. 9-102. Definitions and index of definitions.
    (a)  Article 9 definitions.  In this Article:
         (1)  "Accession"  means  goods  that  are physically
    united with  other  goods  in  such  a  manner  that  the
    identity of the original goods is not lost.
         (2)  "Account",  except  as  used  in "account for",
    means a  right  to  payment  of  a  monetary  obligation,
    whether  or  not  earned by performance, (i) for property
    that has  been  or  is  to  be  sold,  leased,  licensed,
    assigned,  or  otherwise  disposed  of, (ii) for services
    rendered or  to  be  rendered,  (iii)  for  a  policy  of
    insurance  issued  or  to be issued, (iv) for a secondary
    obligation incurred or to be  incurred,  (v)  for  energy
    provided or to be provided, (vi) for the use or hire of a
    vessel  under  a charter or other contract, (vii) arising
    out of the use of a credit or charge card or  information
    contained  on  or  for  use  with  the card, or (viii) as
    winnings in a lottery or other game of chance operated or
    sponsored by a State, governmental unit of  a  State,  or
    person  licensed  or  authorized to operate the game by a
    State or governmental unit of a State.  The term includes
    health-care-insurance receivables.   The  term  does  not
    include  (i) rights to payment evidenced by chattel paper
    or an instrument,  (ii)  commercial  tort  claims,  (iii)
    deposit   accounts,   (iv)   investment   property,   (v)
    letter-of-credit  rights  or  letters  of credit, or (vi)
    rights to payment for money or funds  advanced  or  sold,
    other  than  rights arising out of the use of a credit or
    charge card or information contained on or for  use  with
    the card.
         (3)  "Account debtor" means a person obligated on an
    account,  chattel paper, or general intangible.  The term
    does not include persons obligated to  pay  a  negotiable
    instrument,  even  if  the instrument constitutes part of
    chattel paper.
         (4)  "Accounting", except  as  used  in  "accounting
    for", means a record:
              (A)  authenticated by a secured party;
              (B)  indicating  the  aggregate  unpaid secured
         obligations as of a  date  not  more  than  35  days
         earlier  or  35  days  later  than  the  date of the
         record; and
              (C)  identifying   the   components   of    the
         obligations in reasonable detail.
         (5)  "Agricultural  lien"  means  an interest, other
    than a security interest, in farm products:
              (A)  which secures payment or performance of an
         obligation for:
                   (i)  goods  or   services   furnished   in
              connection  with  a debtor's farming operation;
              or
                   (ii)  rent on real property  leased  by  a
              debtor   in   connection   with   its   farming
              operation;
              (B)  which  is created by statute in favor of a
         person that:
                   (i)  in  the  ordinary   course   of   its
              business  furnished  goods  or  services  to  a
              debtor  in  connection  with a debtor's farming
              operation; or
                   (ii)  leased real property to a debtor  in
              connection with the debtor's farming operation;
              and
              (C)  whose effectiveness does not depend on the
         person's possession of the personal property.
         (6)  "As-extracted collateral" means:
              (A)  oil,  gas,  or  other  minerals  that  are
         subject to a security interest that:
                   (i)  is  created  by  a  debtor  having an
              interest in the minerals before extraction; and
                   (ii)  attaches   to   the   minerals    as
              extracted; or
              (B)  accounts  arising  out  of the sale at the
         wellhead or minehead of oil, gas, or other  minerals
         in   which   the   debtor  had  an  interest  before
         extraction.
         (7)  "Authenticate" means:
              (A)  to sign; or
              (B)  to execute or otherwise adopt a symbol, or
         encrypt or similarly process a record in whole or in
         part, with the present intent of the  authenticating
         person  to identify the person and adopt or accept a
         record.
         (8)  "Bank" means an organization that is engaged in
    the business  of  banking.   The  term  includes  savings
    banks,  savings and loan associations, credit unions, and
    trust companies.
         (9)  "Cash proceeds" means proceeds that are  money,
    checks, deposit accounts, or the like.
         (10)  "Certificate  of title" means a certificate of
    title with respect to which a statute  provides  for  the
    security  interest  in  question  to  be indicated on the
    certificate as a condition  or  result  of  the  security
    interest's  obtaining  priority over the rights of a lien
    creditor with respect to the collateral.
         (11)  "Chattel paper" means a record or records that
    evidence  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
    specified goods and a license of  software  used  in  the
    goods.   In this paragraph, "monetary obligation" means a
    monetary obligation secured by the goods or owed under  a
    lease  of  the  goods  and includes a monetary obligation
    with respect to software used in  the  goods.   The  term
    does   not   include  (i)  charters  or  other  contracts
    involving the use or hire of a  vessel  or  (ii)  records
    that  evidence  a right to payment arising out of the use
    of a credit or charge card or information contained on or
    for use with the card.  If a transaction is evidenced  by
    records   that   include   an  instrument  or  series  of
    instruments,  the  group  of   records   taken   together
    constitutes chattel paper.
         (12)  "Collateral"  means  the property subject to a
    security  interest  or  agricultural  lien.    The   term
    includes:
              (A)  proceeds  to  which  a  security  interest
         attaches;
              (B)  accounts,     chattel    paper,    payment
         intangibles, and promissory  notes  that  have  been
         sold; and
              (C)  goods   that   are   the   subject   of  a
         consignment.
         (13)  "Commercial tort claim" means a claim  arising
    in tort with respect to which:
              (A)  the claimant is an organization; or
              (B)  the  claimant  is  an  individual  and the
         claim:
                   (i)  arose in the course of the claimant's
              business or profession; and
                   (ii)  does not include damages arising out
              of personal  injury  to  or  the  death  of  an
              individual.
         (14)  "Commodity    account"    means   an   account
    maintained  by  a  commodity  intermediary  in  which   a
    commodity contract is carried for a commodity customer.
         (15)  "Commodity contract" means a commodity futures
    contract,  an  option  on a commodity futures contract, a
    commodity option, or another contract if the contract  or
    option is:
              (A)  traded  on  or  subject  to the rules of a
         board  of  trade  that  has  been  designated  as  a
         contract market for  such  a  contract  pursuant  to
         federal commodities laws; or
              (B)  traded  on  a  foreign  commodity board of
         trade, exchange, or market, and is  carried  on  the
         books  of  a  commodity intermediary for a commodity
         customer.
         (16)  "Commodity customer" means a person for  which
    a  commodity intermediary carries a commodity contract on
    its books.
         (17)  "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.
         (18)  "Communicate" means:
              (A)  to  send  a  written  or  other   tangible
         record;
              (B)  to  transmit  a record by any means agreed
         upon  by  the  persons  sending  and  receiving  the
         record; or
              (C)  in the case of transmission of a record to
         or by a filing office, to transmit a record  by  any
         means prescribed by filing-office rule.
         (19)  "Consignee"  means  a  merchant to which goods
    are delivered in a consignment.
         (20)  "Consignment" means a transaction,  regardless
    of  its  form,  in  which  a  person  delivers goods to a
    merchant for the purpose of sale and:
              (A)  the merchant:
                   (i)  deals in goods of that kind  under  a
              name  other  than the name of the person making
              delivery;
                   (ii)  is not an auctioneer; and
                   (iii)  is  not  generally  known  by   its
              creditors   to   be  substantially  engaged  in
              selling the goods of others;
              (B)  with  respect  to   each   delivery,   the
         aggregate  value  of  the goods is $1,000 or more at
         the time of delivery;
              (C)  the   goods   are   not   consumer   goods
         immediately before delivery; and
              (D)  the transaction does not create a security
         interest that secures an obligation.
         (21)  "Consignor" means a person that delivers goods
    to a consignee in a consignment.
         (22)  "Consumer debtor" means a debtor in a consumer
    transaction.
         (23)  "Consumer goods" means goods that are used  or
    bought   for  use  primarily  for  personal,  family,  or
    household purposes.
         (24)  "Consumer-goods transaction" means a  consumer
    transaction in which:
              (A)  an   individual   incurs   an   obligation
         primarily   for   personal,   family,  or  household
         purposes; and
              (B)  a  security  interest  in  consumer  goods
         secures the obligation.
         (25)  "Consumer obligor" means an obligor who is  an
    individual  and  who incurred the obligation as part of a
    transaction entered into primarily for personal,  family,
    or household purposes.
         (26)  "Consumer  transaction" means a transaction in
    which (i) an individual incurs  an  obligation  primarily
    for  personal,  family,  or  household  purposes,  (ii) a
    security interest secures the obligation, and  (iii)  the
    collateral  is  held  or acquired primarily for personal,
    family,  or  household  purposes.   The   term   includes
    consumer-goods transactions.
         (27)  "Continuation statement" means an amendment of
    a financing statement which:
              (A)  identifies,   by   its  file  number,  the
         initial financing statement to which it relates; and
              (B)  indicates  that  it  is   a   continuation
         statement  for,  or that it is filed to continue the
         effectiveness   of,   the    identified    financing
         statement.
         (28)  "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.
         (29)  "Deposit  account"  means  a   demand,   time,
    savings, passbook, nonnegotiable certificates of deposit,
    uncertificated  certificates of deposit, nontransferrable
    certificates of deposit, or  similar  account  maintained
    with  a  bank.   The  term  does  not  include investment
    property or accounts evidenced by an instrument.
         (30)  "Document" means a  document  of  title  or  a
    receipt of the type described in Section 7-201(2).
         (31)  "Electronic chattel paper" means chattel paper
    evidenced   by   a   record   or  records  consisting  of
    information stored in an electronic medium.
         (32)  "Encumbrance" means a  right,  other  than  an
    ownership  interest, in real property.  The term includes
    mortgages and other liens on real property.
         (33)  "Equipment" means goods other than  inventory,
    farm products, or consumer goods.
         (34)  "Farm   products"   means  goods,  other  than
    standing timber, with respect  to  which  the  debtor  is
    engaged in a farming operation and which are:
              (A)  crops  grown,  growing,  or  to  be grown,
         including:
                   (i)  crops produced on trees,  vines,  and
              bushes; and
                   (ii)  aquatic     goods     produced    in
              aquacultural operations;
              (B)  livestock,  born  or   unborn,   including
         aquatic goods produced in aquacultural operations;
              (C)  supplies  used  or  produced  in a farming
         operation; or
              (D)  products of crops or  livestock  in  their
         unmanufactured states.
         (35)  "Farming     operation"     means     raising,
    cultivating,  propagating,  fattening,  grazing,  or  any
    other farming, livestock, or aquacultural operation.
         (36)  "File  number" means the number assigned to an
    initial financing statement pursuant to Section 9-519(a).
         (37)  "Filing office" means an office designated  in
    Section 9-501 as the place to file a financing statement.
         (38)  "Filing-office  rule"  means  a  rule  adopted
    pursuant to Section 9-526.
         (39)  "Financing   statement"   means  a  record  or
    records composed of an initial  financing  statement  and
    any  filed  record  relating  to  the  initial  financing
    statement.
         (40)  "Fixture   filing"   means  the  filing  of  a
    financing statement covering goods that  are  or  are  to
    become  fixtures and satisfying Section 9-502(a) and (b).
    The term includes the filing  of  a  financing  statement
    covering goods of a transmitting utility which are or are
    to become fixtures.
         (41)  "Fixtures"  means  goods  that  have become so
    related to particular real property that an  interest  in
    them arises under real property law.
         (42)  "General   intangible"   means   any  personal
    property,  including  things  in   action,   other   than
    accounts,  chattel paper, commercial tort claims, deposit
    accounts,  documents,  goods,   instruments,   investment
    property,  letter-of-credit  rights,  letters  of credit,
    money, and oil, gas, or other minerals before extraction.
    The term includes payment intangibles and software.
         (43)  "Good faith" means honesty  in  fact  and  the
    observance  of  reasonable  commercial  standards of fair
    dealing.
         (44)  "Goods" means all things that are movable when
    a security interest  attaches.   The  term  includes  (i)
    fixtures,  (ii)  standing  timber  that  is to be cut and
    removed under a conveyance or contract  for  sale,  (iii)
    the  unborn  young of animals, (iv) crops grown, growing,
    or to be grown, even if the crops are produced on  trees,
    vines,  or  bushes, and (v) manufactured homes.  The term
    also includes a computer program embedded  in  goods  and
    any  supporting information provided in connection with a
    transaction relating to the program if (i) the program is
    associated with the  goods  in  such  a  manner  that  it
    customarily  is  considered part of the goods, or (ii) by
    becoming the owner of the  goods,  a  person  acquires  a
    right  to  use  the program in connection with the goods.
    The term does not include a computer program embedded  in
    goods  that  consist  solely  of  the medium in which the
    program is embedded.  The  term  also  does  not  include
    accounts,  chattel paper, commercial tort claims, deposit
    accounts, documents,  general  intangibles,  instruments,
    investment  property, letter-of-credit rights, letters of
    credit, money, or oil,  gas,  or  other  minerals  before
    extraction.
         (45)  "Governmental   unit"   means  a  subdivision,
    agency,  department,  county,  parish,  municipality,  or
    other unit of the government  of  the  United  States,  a
    State,  or  a  foreign  country.   The  term  includes an
    organization having a separate corporate existence if the
    organization is eligible to issue debt on which  interest
    is  exempt  from  income  taxation  under the laws of the
    United States.
         (46)  "Health-care-insurance  receivable"  means  an
    interest in or claim under a policy of insurance which is
    a  right  to  payment  of  a  monetary   obligation   for
    health-care goods or services provided.
         (47)  "Instrument"  means a negotiable instrument or
    any other writing that evidences a right to  the  payment
    of  a  monetary  obligation,  is  not  itself  a security
    agreement or lease, and is of a  type  that  in  ordinary
    course  of  business  is transferred by delivery with any
    necessary indorsement or assignment.  The term  does  not
    include  (i) investment property, (ii) letters of credit,
    (iii)  nonnegotiable  certificates   of   deposit,   (iv)
    uncertificated     certificates     of    deposit,    (v)
    nontransferrable  certificates  of   deposit,   or   (vi)
    writings  that evidence a right to payment arising out of
    the use  of  a  credit  or  charge  card  or  information
    contained on or for use with the card.
         (48)  "Inventory"   means  goods,  other  than  farm
    products, which:
              (A)  are leased by a person as lessor;
              (B)  are held by a person for sale or lease  or
         to be furnished under a contract of service;
              (C)  are furnished by a person under a contract
         of service; or
              (D)  consist of raw materials, work in process,
         or materials used or consumed in a business.
         (49)  "Investment   property"   means   a  security,
    whether   certificated   or   uncertificated,    security
    entitlement,  securities  account, commodity contract, or
    commodity account.
         (50)  "Jurisdiction of organization",  with  respect
    to  a  registered  organization,  means  the jurisdiction
    under whose law the organization is organized.
         (51)  "Letter-of-credit  right"  means  a  right  to
    payment or performance under a letter of credit,  whether
    or  not  the  beneficiary  has demanded or is at the time
    entitled to demand payment or performance.  The term does
    not include the right of a beneficiary to demand  payment
    or performance under a letter of credit.
         (52)  "Lien creditor" means:
              (A)  a creditor that has acquired a lien on the
         property involved by attachment, levy, or the like;
              (B)  an  assignee for benefit of creditors from
         the time of assignment;
              (C)  a trustee in bankruptcy from the  date  of
         the filing of the petition; or
              (D)  a  receiver  in  equity  from  the time of
         appointment.
         (53)  "Manufactured   home"   means   a   structure,
    transportable in one or  more  sections,  which,  in  the
    traveling mode, is eight body feet or more in width or 40
    body feet or more in length, or, when erected on site, is
    320  or  more  square  feet,  and  which  is  built  on a
    permanent chassis and designed to be used as  a  dwelling
    with  or without a permanent foundation when connected to
    the  required  utilities,  and  includes  the   plumbing,
    heating,   air-conditioning,   and   electrical   systems
    contained  therein.  The term includes any structure that
    meets all of the requirements of  this  paragraph  except
    the  size  requirements  and  with  respect  to which the
    manufacturer voluntarily files a  certification  required
    by  the  United  States  Secretary  of  Housing and Urban
    Development and complies with the  standards  established
    under Title 42 of the United States Code.
         (54)  "Manufactured-home    transaction"   means   a
    secured transaction:
              (A)  that  creates  a  purchase-money  security
         interest  in  a  manufactured  home,  other  than  a
         manufactured home held as inventory; or
              (B)  in which a manufactured home, other than a
         manufactured home held as inventory, is the  primary
         collateral.
         (55)  "Mortgage" means a consensual interest in real
    property,  including  fixtures,  which secures payment or
    performance of an obligation.
         (56)  "New debtor" means a person that becomes bound
    as debtor under Section 9-203(d) by a security  agreement
    previously entered into by another person.
         (57)  "New  value"  means  (i)  money,  (ii) money's
    worth in property, services,  or  new  credit,  or  (iii)
    release  by  a  transferee  of  an  interest  in property
    previously transferred to the transferee.  The term  does
    not   include   an  obligation  substituted  for  another
    obligation.
         (58)  "Noncash proceeds" means proceeds  other  than
    cash proceeds.
         (59)  "Obligor" means a person that, with respect to
    an  obligation  secured  by  a security interest in or an
    agricultural lien on the collateral, (i) owes payment  or
    other  performance  of  the obligation, (ii) has provided
    property other than the collateral to secure  payment  or
    other   performance   of  the  obligation,  or  (iii)  is
    otherwise accountable in whole or in part for payment  or
    other  performance  of the obligation.  The term does not
    include issuers or nominated persons under  a  letter  of
    credit.
         (60)  "Original  debtor",  except as used in Section
    9-310(c), means a person that, as debtor, entered into  a
    security agreement to which a new debtor has become bound
    under Section 9-203(d).
         (61)  "Payment    intangible"    means   a   general
    intangible under which  the  account  debtor's  principal
    obligation is a monetary obligation.
         (62)  "Person   related  to",  with  respect  to  an
    individual, means:
              (A)  the spouse of the individual;
              (B)  a  brother,  brother-in-law,  sister,   or
         sister-in-law of the individual;
              (C)  an  ancestor  or  lineal descendant of the
         individual or the individual's spouse; or
              (D)  any other relative, by blood or  marriage,
         of  the  individual  or  the individual's spouse who
         shares the same home with the individual.
         (63)  "Person  related  to",  with  respect  to   an
    organization, means:
              (A)  a    person    directly    or   indirectly
         controlling, controlled by, or under common  control
         with the organization;
              (B)  an  officer  or  director  of, or a person
         performing similar functions with  respect  to,  the
         organization;
              (C)  an  officer  or  director  of, or a person
         performing similar  functions  with  respect  to,  a
         person described in subparagraph (A);
              (D)  the  spouse  of an individual described in
         subparagraph (A), (B), or (C); or
              (E)  an individual who is related by  blood  or
         marriage  to an individual described in subparagraph
         (A), (B), (C), or (D) and shares the same home  with
         the individual.
         (64)  "Proceeds",   except   as   used   in  Section
    9-609(b), means the following property:
              (A)  whatever is acquired upon the sale, lease,
         license,   exchange,   or   other   disposition   of
         collateral;
              (B)  whatever is collected on,  or  distributed
         on account of, collateral;
              (C)  rights arising out of collateral;
              (D)  to  the extent of the value of collateral,
         claims arising out of the  loss,  nonconformity,  or
         interference   with   the   use   of,   defects   or
         infringement   of  rights  in,  or  damage  to,  the
         collateral; or
              (E)  to the extent of the value  of  collateral
         and  to  the  extent  payable  to  the debtor or the
         secured party, insurance payable by  reason  of  the
         loss or nonconformity of, defects or infringement of
         rights in, or damage to, the collateral.
         (65)  "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.
         (66)  "Proposal"  means  a record authenticated by a
    secured party which  includes  the  terms  on  which  the
    secured  party is willing to accept collateral in full or
    partial  satisfaction  of  the  obligation   it   secures
    pursuant to Sections 9-620, 9-621, and 9-622.
         (67)  "Public-finance  transaction"  means a secured
    transaction in connection with which:
              (A)  debt securities are issued;
              (B)  all or a portion of the securities  issued
         have  an  initial  stated  maturity  of  at least 20
         years; and
              (C)  the  debtor,   obligor,   secured   party,
         account   debtor   or   other  person  obligated  on
         collateral,  assignor  or  assignee  of  a   secured
         obligation,  or  assignor  or assignee of a security
         interest is a State or  a  governmental  unit  of  a
         State.
         (68)  "Pursuant  to  commitment", with respect to an
    advance made or other value given  by  a  secured  party,
    means pursuant to the secured party's obligation, whether
    or  not  a subsequent event of default or other event not
    within the secured party's control has  relieved  or  may
    relieve the secured party from its obligation.
         (69)  "Record",  except as used in "for record", "of
    record", "record or legal  title",  and  "record  owner",
    means  information that is inscribed on a tangible medium
    or which is stored in an electronic or other  medium  and
    is retrievable in perceivable form.
         (70)  "Registered     organization"     means     an
    organization  organized  solely under the law of a single
    State or the United States and as to which the  State  or
    the  United  States must maintain a public record showing
    the organization to have been organized.
         (71)  "Secondary obligor" means an  obligor  to  the
    extent that:
              (A)  the obligor's obligation is secondary; or
              (B)  the  obligor  has a right of recourse with
         respect  to  an  obligation  secured  by  collateral
         against the debtor, another obligor, or property  of
         either.
         (72)  "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 which 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  that  holds a security interest
         arising  under  Section  2-401,   2-505,   2-711(3),
         2A-508(5), 4-210, or 5-118.
         (73)  "Security  agreement"  means an agreement that
    creates or provides for a security interest.
         (74)  "Send",  in  connection  with  a   record   or
    notification, means:
              (A)  to   deposit  in  the  mail,  deliver  for
         transmission, or transmit by any other  usual  means
         of   communication,   with   postage   or   cost  of
         transmission provided for, addressed to any  address
         reasonable under the circumstances; or
              (B)  to  cause the record or notification to be
         received within the time that  it  would  have  been
         received if properly sent under subparagraph (A).
         (75)  "Software"  means  a  computer program and any
    supporting information  provided  in  connection  with  a
    transaction  relating  to  the program. The term does not
    include a  computer  program  that  is  included  in  the
    definition of goods.
         (76)  "State"  means  a  State of the United States,
    the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United  States
    Virgin  Islands,  or  any territory or insular possession
    subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
         (77)  "Supporting      obligation"      means      a
    letter-of-credit  right  or  secondary  obligation   that
    supports  the  payment  or  performance  of  an  account,
    chattel  paper,  a  document,  a  general  intangible, an
    instrument, or investment property.
         (78)  "Tangible chattel paper" means  chattel  paper
    evidenced   by   a   record   or  records  consisting  of
    information that is inscribed on a tangible medium.
         (79)  "Termination statement" means an amendment  of
    a financing statement which:
              (A)  identifies,   by   its  file  number,  the
         initial financing statement to which it relates; and
              (B)  indicates either that it is a  termination
         statement or that the identified financing statement
         is no longer effective.
         (80)  "Transmitting    utility"   means   a   person
    primarily engaged in the business of:
              (A)  operating  a  railroad,   subway,   street
         railway, or trolley bus;
              (B)  transmitting  communications electrically,
         electromagnetically, or by light;
              (C)  transmitting goods by pipeline  or  sewer;
         or
              (D)  transmitting or producing and transmitting
         electricity, steam, gas, or water.
    (b)  Definitions   in   other  Articles.   The  following
definitions in other Articles apply to this Article:
    "Applicant". Section 5-102.
    "Beneficiary". Section 5-102.
    "Broker". Section 8-102.
    "Certificated security".  Section 8-102.
    "Check".  Section 3-104.
    "Clearing corporation".  Section 8-102.
    "Contract for sale".  Section 2-106.
    "Customer".  Section 4-104.
    "Entitlement holder".  Section 8-102.
    "Financial asset".  Section 8-102.
    "Holder in due course".  Section 3-302.
    "Issuer"  (with  respect  to  a  letter  of   credit   or
letter-of-credit right).  Section 5-102.
    "Issuer" (with respect to a security).  Section 8-201.
    "Lease".  Section 2A-103.
    "Lease agreement".  Section 2A-103.
    "Lease contract".  Section 2A-103.
    "Leasehold interest".  Section 2A-103.
    "Lessee".  Section 2A-103.
    "Lessee in ordinary course of business".  Section 2A-103.
    "Lessor".  Section 2A-103.
    "Lessor's residual interest".  Section 2A-103.
    "Letter of credit".  Section 5-102.
    "Merchant".  Section 2-104.
    "Negotiable instrument".  Section 3-104.
    "Nominated person".  Section 5-102.
    "Note".  Section 3-104.
    "Proceeds of a letter of credit".  Section 5-114.
    "Prove".  Section 3-103.
    "Sale".  Section 2-106.
    "Securities account".  Section 8-501.
    "Securities intermediary".  Section 8-102.
    "Security".  Section 8-102.
    "Security certificate".  Section 8-102.
    "Security entitlement".  Section 8-102.
    "Uncertificated security".  Section 8-102.
    (c)  Article  1  definitions  and  principles.  Article 1
contains general definitions and principles  of  construction
and interpretation applicable throughout this Article. Policy
and Subject Matter of Article.
    (1)  Except  as  otherwise  provided in Section 9--104 on
excluded transactions, this Article applies
         (a)  to any transaction  (regardless  of  its  form)
which  is  intended to create a security interest in personal
property or fixtures including goods, documents, instruments,
general intangibles, chattel paper or accounts; and also
         (b)  to any sale of accounts or chattel paper.
    (2)  This Article applies to security  interests  created
by  contract  including pledge, assignment, chattel mortgage,
chattel trust, trust deed, factor's  lien,  equipment  trust,
conditional   sale,   trust  receipt,  other  lien  or  title
retention contract  and  lease  or  consignment  intended  as
security.  This  Article  does  not  apply to statutory liens
except as provided in Section 9--310.
    (3)  The  application  of  this  Article  to  a  security
interest in a secured obligation is not affected by the  fact
that  the  obligation  is  itself secured by a transaction or
interest to which this Article does not apply.
    (4)  The  application  of  this  Article  to  a  security
interest in a deposit account shall not displace a common law
right of set-off of the secured party as to a deposit account
maintained with the secured party.
(Source: P.A. 87-1037.)

    (810 ILCS 5/9-103) (from Ch. 26, par. 9-103)
    Sec. 9-103. Purchase-money security interest; application
of payments; burden of establishing.
    (a)  Definitions.  In this Section:
         (1)  "purchase-money  collateral"  means  goods   or
    software   that   secures   a  purchase-money  obligation
    incurred with respect to that collateral; and
         (2)  "purchase-money obligation" means an obligation
    of an obligor incurred as all or part of the price of the
    collateral or for value given to  enable  the  debtor  to
    acquire  rights  in  or  the use of the collateral if the
    value is in fact so used.
    (b)  Purchase-money  security  interest  in   goods.    A
security  interest  in  goods  is  a  purchase-money security
interest:
         (1)  to the extent that the goods are purchase-money
    collateral with respect to that security interest;
         (2)  if the security interest is in  inventory  that
    is  or  was purchase-money collateral, also to the extent
    that  the  security  interest  secures  a  purchase-money
    obligation incurred with respect to  other  inventory  in
    which  the  secured  party holds or held a purchase-money
    security interest; and
         (3)  also to the extent that the  security  interest
    secures a purchase-money obligation incurred with respect
    to  software  in  which the secured party holds or held a
    purchase-money security interest.
    (c)  Purchase-money security  interest  in  software.   A
security  interest  in  software is a purchase-money security
interest to  the  extent  that  the  security  interest  also
secures  a purchase-money obligation incurred with respect to
goods  in  which  the  secured  party   holds   or   held   a
purchase-money security interest if:
         (1)  the   debtor   acquired  its  interest  in  the
    software  in  an  integrated  transaction  in  which   it
    acquired an interest in the goods; and
         (2)  the   debtor   acquired  its  interest  in  the
    software for the principal purpose of using the  software
    in the goods.
    (d)  Consignor's    inventory   purchase-money   security
interest.  The security interest of a consignor in goods that
are the subject of a consignment is a purchase-money security
interest in inventory.
    (e)  Application   of   payment   in   non-consumer-goods
transaction.  In a transaction other  than  a  consumer-goods
transaction,  if the extent to which a security interest is a
purchase-money security interest depends on  the  application
of  a payment to a particular obligation, the payment must be
applied:
         (1)  in accordance with  any  reasonable  method  of
    application to which the parties agree;
         (2)  in  the  absence of the parties' agreement to a
    reasonable method, in accordance with  any  intention  of
    the  obligor manifested at or before the time of payment;
    or
         (3)  in the absence of an agreement to a  reasonable
    method  and  a  timely  manifestation  of  the  obligor's
    intention, in the following order:
              (A)  to obligations that are not secured; and
              (B)  if more than one obligation is secured, to
         obligations   secured   by  purchase-money  security
         interests in the order in  which  those  obligations
         were incurred.
    (f)  No   loss   of  status  of  purchase-money  security
interest in non-consumer-goods transaction.  In a transaction
other than a  consumer-goods  transaction,  a  purchase-money
security interest does not lose its status as such, even if:
         (1)  the  purchase-money  collateral also secures an
    obligation that is not a purchase-money obligation;
         (2)  collateral   that   is    not    purchase-money
    collateral also secures the purchase-money obligation; or
         (3)  the purchase-money obligation has been renewed,
    refinanced, consolidated, or restructured.
    (g)  Burden  of  proof in non-consumer-goods transaction.
In a transaction other than a consumer-goods  transaction,  a
secured party claiming a purchase-money security interest has
the  burden  of establishing the extent to which the security
interest is a purchase-money security interest.
    (h)  Non-consumer-goods transactions; no inference.   The
limitation  of  the rules in subsections (e), (f), and (g) to
transactions  other  than  consumer-goods   transactions   is
intended  to  leave  to  the  court  the determination of the
proper rules in consumer-goods transactions.  The  court  may
not  infer from that limitation the nature of the proper rule
in consumer-goods transactions  and  may  continue  to  apply
established  approaches.  Perfection of Security Interests in
Multiple State Transactions.
    (1)  Documents,  instruments,  letters  of  credit,   and
ordinary goods.
         (a)  This    subsection    applies   to   documents,
    instruments, rights to proceeds  of  written  letters  of
    credit,   and   goods  other  than  those  covered  by  a
    certificate of title described in subsection (2),  mobile
    goods described in subsection (3), and minerals described
    in subsection (5).
         (b)  Except    as   otherwise   provided   in   this
    subsection, perfection and the effect  of  perfection  or
    non-perfection  of  a security interest in collateral are
    governed  by  the  law  of  the  jurisdiction  where  the
    collateral is when the last  event  occurs  on  which  is
    based   the  assertion  that  the  security  interest  is
    perfected or unperfected.
         (c)  If the parties  to  a  transaction  creating  a
    purchase   money   security  interest  in  goods  in  one
    jurisdiction understand at the  time  that  the  security
    interest  attaches that the goods will be kept in another
    jurisdiction, then the  law  of  the  other  jurisdiction
    governs  the  perfection  and the effect of perfection or
    non-perfection of the security interest from the time  it
    attaches   until   30  days  after  the  debtor  receives
    possession of the goods and thereafter if the  goods  are
    taken  to  the  other  jurisdiction before the end of the
    30-day period.
         (d)  When collateral is brought  into  and  kept  in
    this State while subject to a security interest perfected
    under   the  law  of  the  jurisdiction  from  which  the
    collateral was removed,  the  security  interest  remains
    perfected,  but  if  action is required by Part 3 of this
    Article to perfect the security interest,
              (i)  if the action  is  not  taken  before  the
         expiration  of the period of perfection in the other
         jurisdiction or  the  end  of  4  months  after  the
         collateral  is  brought  into  this State, whichever
         period first expires, the security interest  becomes
         unperfected  at  the  end  of  that  period  and  is
         thereafter   deemed  to  have  been  unperfected  as
         against  a  person  who  became  a  purchaser  after
         removal;
              (ii)  if  the  action  is  taken   before   the
         expiration  of  the period specified in subparagraph
         (i),  the  security  interest  continues   perfected
         thereafter;
              (iii)  for the purpose of priority over a buyer
         of consumer goods (subsection (2) of Section 9-307),
         the  period  of the effectiveness of a filing in the
         jurisdiction from which the collateral is removed is
         governed by the rules with respect to perfection  in
         subparagraphs (i) and (ii).
    (2)  Certificate of title.
         (a)  This  subsection  applies to goods covered by a
    certificate of title issued under a statute of this State
    or  of  another  jurisdiction  under  the  law  of  which
    indication of a security interest on the  certificate  is
    required as a condition of perfection.
         (b)  Except    as   otherwise   provided   in   this
    subsection, perfection and the effect  of  perfection  or
    non-perfection  of  the security interest are governed by
    the law (including the conflict of  laws  rules)  of  the
    jurisdiction issuing the certificate until 4 months after
    the   goods   are  removed  from  that  jurisdiction  and
    thereafter until the  goods  are  registered  in  another
    jurisdiction,  but  in  any event not beyond surrender of
    the certificate.  After the expiration  of  that  period,
    the  goods  are  not  covered by the certificate of title
    within the meaning of this Section.
         (c)  Except with respect to the rights  of  a  buyer
    described  in  the  next  paragraph, a security interest,
    perfected  in  another  jurisdiction  otherwise  than  by
    notation on a certificate of title, in goods brought into
    this State and thereafter covered  by  a  certificate  of
    title issued by this State is subject to the rules stated
    in paragraph (d) of subsection (1).
         (d)  If  goods  are  brought into this State while a
    security interest therein  is  perfected  in  any  manner
    under  the  law  of the jurisdiction from which the goods
    are removed and a certificate of title is issued by  this
    State  and  the  certificate does not show that the goods
    are subject to the security interest or that they may  be
    subject   to   security   interests   not  shown  on  the
    certificate, the security interest is subordinate to  the
    rights  of  a  buyer  of  the goods to the extent that he
    gives value and receives  delivery  of  the  goods  after
    issuance  of the certificate and without knowledge of the
    security interest.
    (3)  Accounts, general intangibles and mobile goods.
         (a)  This subsection applies to accounts (other than
    an account described in subsection (5) on  minerals)  and
    general    intangibles    (other    than   uncertificated
    securities) and to goods which are mobile and  which  are
    of  a  type  normally used in more than one jurisdiction,
    such  as  motor  vehicles,   trailers,   rolling   stock,
    airplanes,   shipping   containers,   road  building  and
    construction   machinery   and   commercial    harvesting
    machinery and the like, if the goods are equipment or are
    inventory  leased  or  held  for  lease  by the debtor to
    others, and are not covered by  a  certificate  of  title
    described in subsection (2).
         (b)  The  law (including the conflict of laws rules)
    of the  jurisdiction  in  which  the  debtor  is  located
    governs  the  perfection  and the effect of perfection or
    non-perfection of the security interest.
         (c)  If,  however,  the  debtor  is  located  in   a
    jurisdiction  which  is  not a part of the United States,
    and which does not provide for perfection of the security
    interest by filing or recording in that jurisdiction, the
    law of the jurisdiction in the United States in which the
    debtor has its  major  executive  office  in  the  United
    States   governs   the   perfection  and  the  effect  of
    perfection or non-perfection  of  the  security  interest
    through  filing.   In  the  alternative, if the debtor is
    located in a jurisdiction which is  not  a  part  of  the
    United States or Canada and the collateral is accounts or
    general  intangibles  for money due or to become due, the
    security interest may be perfected by notification to the
    account debtor.   As  used  in  this  paragraph,  "United
    States"  includes its territories and possessions and the
    Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
         (d)  A debtor shall be deemed located at  his  place
    of  business if he has one, at his chief executive office
    if he has more than one place of business,  otherwise  at
    his  residence.  If, however, the debtor is a foreign air
    carrier under  the  Federal  Aviation  Act  of  1958,  as
    amended,  it  shall  be  deemed located at the designated
    office of the agent upon whom service of process  may  be
    made on behalf of the foreign air carrier.
         (e)  A  security interest perfected under the law of
    the  jurisdiction  of  the  location  of  the  debtor  is
    perfected until the expiration of 4 months after a change
    of the debtor's  location  to  another  jurisdiction,  or
    until  perfection  would  have  ceased  by the law of the
    first  jurisdiction,  whichever  period  first   expires.
    Unless  perfected  in the new jurisdiction before the end
    of that period, it becomes unperfected thereafter and  is
    deemed  to  have been unperfected as against a person who
    became a purchaser after the change.
    (4)  Chattel  paper.   The  rules  stated  for  goods  in
subsection (1) apply to a  possessory  security  interest  in
chattel  paper.   The rules stated for accounts in subsection
(3) apply to a non-possessory security  interest  in  chattel
paper,  but  the  security  interest  may not be perfected by
notification to the account debtor.
    (5)  Minerals.  Perfection and the effect  of  perfection
or  non-perfection of a security interest which is created by
a debtor  who  has  an  interest  in  minerals  or  the  like
(including  oil and gas) before extraction and which attaches
thereto  as  extracted,  or  which  attaches  to  an  account
resulting from the sale thereof at the wellhead  or  minehead
are  governed  by  the  law  (including  the conflict of laws
rules) of the jurisdiction wherein the wellhead  or  minehead
is located.
    (6)  Investment property.
         (a)  This subsection applies to investment property.
         (b)  Except  as otherwise provided in paragraph (f),
    during the time that a security certificate is located in
    a jurisdiction, perfection of a  security  interest,  the
    effect  of perfection or non-perfection, and the priority
    of a  security  interest  in  the  certificated  security
    represented thereby are governed by the local law of that
    jurisdiction.
         (c)  Except  as otherwise provided in paragraph (f),
    perfection  of  a  security  interest,  the   effect   of
    perfection  or  non-perfection,  and  the  priority  of a
    security  interest  in  an  uncertificated  security  are
    governed by the local law of the issuer's jurisdiction as
    specified in Section 8-110(d).
         (d)  Except as otherwise provided in paragraph  (f),
    perfection   of   a  security  interest,  the  effect  of
    perfection or  non-perfection,  and  the  priority  of  a
    security interest in a security entitlement or securities
    account  are  governed by the local law of the securities
    intermediary's  jurisdiction  as  specified  in   Section
    8-110(e).
         (e)  Except  as otherwise provided in paragraph (f),
    perfection  of  a  security  interest,  the   effect   of
    perfection  or  non-perfection,  and  the  priority  of a
    security interest in a commodity  contract  or  commodity
    account  are  governed  by the local law of the commodity
    intermediary's  jurisdiction.     The   following   rules
    determine  a  "commodity intermediary's jurisdiction" for
    purposes of this paragraph:
              (i)  If  an  agreement  between  the  commodity
         intermediary and commodity customer  specifies  that
         it   is   governed   by  the  law  of  a  particular
         jurisdiction, that  jurisdiction  is  the  commodity
         intermediary's jurisdiction.
              (ii)  If  an  agreement  between  the commodity
         intermediary and commodity customer does not specify
         the governing law as provided in  subparagraph  (i),
         but  expressly  specifies that the commodity account
         is  maintained  at  an  office   in   a   particular
         jurisdiction,  that  jurisdiction  is  the commodity
         intermediary's jurisdiction.
              (iii)  If an agreement  between  the  commodity
         intermediary and commodity customer does not specify
         a  jurisdiction  as provided in subparagraphs (i) or
         (ii), the commodity intermediary's  jurisdiction  is
         the  jurisdiction  in  which  is  located the office
         identified in an account  statement  as  the  office
         serving the commodity customer's account.
              (iv)  If  an  agreement  between  the commodity
         intermediary and commodity customer does not specify
         a jurisdiction as provided in subparagraphs  (i)  or
         (ii)  and  an account statement does not identify an
         office serving the commodity customer's  account  as
         provided   in   subparagraph  (iii),  the  commodity
         intermediary's jurisdiction is the  jurisdiction  in
         which  is  located the chief executive office of the
         commodity intermediary.
         (f)  Perfection of a security  interest  by  filing,
    automatic perfection of a security interest in investment
    property  granted by a broker or securities intermediary,
    and automatic perfection of  a  security  interest  in  a
    commodity  contract  or  commodity   account granted by a
    commodity intermediary are governed by the local  law  of
    the jurisdiction in which the debtor is located.
(Source:  P.A.  89-364,  eff.  1-1-96;  89-534,  eff. 1-1-97;
89-626, eff. 8-9-96.)

    (810 ILCS 5/9-104) (from Ch. 26, par. 9-104)
    Sec. 9-104.  Control of deposit account.
    (a)  Requirements  for  control.   A  secured  party  has
control of a deposit account if:
         (1)  the secured party is the bank  with  which  the
    deposit account is maintained;
         (2)  the debtor, secured party, and bank have agreed
    in an authenticated record that the bank will comply with
    instructions  originated  by  the secured party directing
    disposition of the funds in the deposit  account  without
    further consent by the debtor; or
         (3)  the  secured  party becomes the bank's customer
    with respect to the deposit account.
    (b)  Debtor's right to  direct  disposition.   A  secured
party  that has satisfied subsection (a) has control, even if
the debtor retains the right to  direct  the  disposition  of
funds  from  the  deposit account. Transactions excluded from
Article.
    This Article does not apply
         (a)  to a security interest subject to  any  statute
    of  the  United  States  to  the extent that such statute
    governs the  rights  of  parties  to  and  third  parties
    affected by transactions in particular types of property;
    or
         (b)  to a landlord's lien; or
         (c)  to a lien given by statute or other rule of law
    for  services  or materials except as provided in Section
    9-310 on priority of such liens; or
         (d)  to a transfer of a claim for wages,  salary  or
    other compensation of an employee; or
         (e)  to  a  transfer by a government or governmental
    subdivision or agency; or
         (f)  to a sale of accounts or chattel paper as  part
    of  a sale of the business out of which they arose, or an
    assignment of accounts or chattel paper which is for  the
    purpose  of  collection only, or a transfer of a right to
    payment under a contract to an assignee who is also to do
    the performance under the contract or  a  transfer  of  a
    single  account  to  an  assignee  in  whole  or  partial
    satisfaction of a preexisting indebtedness; or
         (g)  to  a  transfer  of  an interest or claim in or
    under any policy of insurance, except  as  provided  with
    respect  to  proceeds  (Section  9-306) and priorities in
    proceeds (Section 9-312); or
         (h)  to a right represented  by  a  judgment  (other
    than  a  judgment  taken  on a right to payment which was
    collateral); or
         (i)  to any right of set-off; or
         (j)  except to the extent that provision is made for
    fixtures in Section 9-313, to the creation or transfer of
    an interest in or lien on real estate, including a  lease
    or rents thereunder; or
         (k)  to  a transfer in whole or in part of any claim
    arising out of tort; or
         (l)  to a transfer of an interest  in  a  letter  of
    credit  other  than  the  rights to proceeds of a written
    letter of credit.
(Source: P.A. 89-534, eff. 1-1-97.)

    (810 ILCS 5/9-105) (from Ch. 26, par. 9-105)
    Sec. 9-105.  Control  of  electronic  chattel  paper.   A
secured  party has control of electronic chattel paper if the
record or records comprising the chattel paper  are  created,
stored, and assigned in such a manner that:
         (1)  a  single  authoritative  copy of the record or
    records exists which is unique, identifiable and,  except
    as  otherwise  provided  in paragraphs (4), (5), and (6),
    unalterable;
         (2)  the authoritative copy identifies  the  secured
    party as the assignee of the record or records;
         (3)  the  authoritative  copy is communicated to and
    maintained  by  the  secured  party  or  its   designated
    custodian;
         (4)  copies  or  revisions  that  add  or  change an
    identified assignee of the authoritative copy can be made
    only with the participation of the secured party;
         (5)  each copy of the  authoritative  copy  and  any
    copy  of a copy is readily identifiable as a copy that is
    not the authoritative copy; and
         (6)  any  revision  of  the  authoritative  copy  is
    readily identifiable as  an  authorized  or  unauthorized
    revision. Definitions and index of definitions.
    (1)  In   this   Article  unless  the  context  otherwise
requires:
         (a)  "Account  debtor"  means  the  person  who   is
    obligated   on  an  account,  chattel  paper  or  general
    intangible;
         (b)  "Chattel paper" means  a  writing  or  writings
    which  evidence both a monetary obligation and a security
    interest in or a lease of specific goods, but  a  charter
    or  other  contract involving the use or hire of a vessel
    is not chattel paper. When  a  transaction  is  evidenced
    both  by  such  a security agreement or a lease and by an
    instrument or a  series  of  instruments,  the  group  of
    writings taken together constitutes chattel paper;
         (c)  "Collateral"  means  the  property subject to a
    security interest,  and  includes  accounts  and  chattel
    paper which have been sold;
         (d)  "Debtor"  means  the person who owes payment or
    other performance of the obligation secured,  whether  or
    not he owns or has rights in the collateral, and includes
    the seller of accounts or chattel paper. Where the debtor
    and  the owner of the collateral are not the same person,
    the term "debtor" means the owner of  the  collateral  in
    any provision of the Article dealing with the collateral,
    the obligor in any provision dealing with the obligation,
    and may include both where the context so requires;
         (e)  "Deposit   account"   means   a  demand,  time,
    savings, passbook or like account maintained with a bank,
    as defined in subsection (1) of Section 4-105, other than
    an account evidenced by a certificate of deposit;
         (f)  "Document" means document of title  as  defined
    in  the general definitions of Article 1 (Section 1-201),
    and a receipt of the kind described in subsection (2)  of
    Section 7-201;
         (g)  "Encumbrance"  includes  real  estate mortgages
    and other liens on real estate and all  other  rights  in
    real estate that are not ownership interests;
         (h)  "Goods"  includes  all things which are movable
    at the time the security interest attaches or  which  are
    fixtures  (Section  9-313),  but  does not include money,
    documents, instruments,  investment  property,  commodity
    contracts,  accounts, chattel paper, general intangibles,
    or minerals or the like (including oil  and  gas)  before
    extraction.  "Goods"  also includes standing timber which
    is to be cut and removed under a conveyance  or  contract
    for sale, the unborn young of animals, and growing crops;
         (i)  "Instrument"   means  a  negotiable  instrument
    (defined   in   Section   3-104),   a    non-transferable
    certificate  of  deposit, a non-negotiable certificate of
    deposit, or any other writing which evidences a right  to
    the  payment  of  money  and  is  not  itself  a security
    agreement or lease and is of a type which is in  ordinary
    course  of  business  transferred  by  delivery  with any
    necessary indorsement or assignment.  The term  does  not
    include investment property;
         (j)  "Mortgage"  means a consensual interest created
    by a real estate mortgage, a trust deed on  real  estate,
    or the like;
         (j-5)  "Non-negotiable certificate of deposit" means
    a  written  document  issued  by  a  bank,  as defined in
    subsection  (1)  of  Section  4-105,  that  contains   an
    acknowledgement  that a sum of money has been received by
    the issuer and a promise by the issuer to repay  the  sum
    of  money,  and is not a negotiable instrument as defined
    in Section 3-104;
         (j-7)  "Non-transferable  certificate  of   deposit"
    means  a  non-negotiable certificate of deposit which may
    not be transferred except on the  books  of  the  issuer,
    with  the  consent  of the issuer, or is subject to other
    restrictions or conditions of the issuer on transfer;
         (k)  An advance is made "pursuant to commitment"  if
    the  secured  party has bound himself to make it, whether
    or not a subsequent event of default or other  event  not
    within  his  control has relieved or may relieve him from
    his obligation;
         (l)  "Security agreement" means an  agreement  which
    creates or provides for a security interest;
         (m)  "Secured party" means a lender, seller or other
    person  in  whose  favor  there  is  a security interest,
    including a person to whom accounts or chattel paper have
    been sold. When the holders of obligations  issued  under
    an  indenture  of trust, equipment trust agreement or the
    like are represented by a trustee or  other  person,  the
    representative is the secured party;
-10t(n)  "Transmitting  utility"  means  any person primarily
    engaged in the railroad, street railway  or  trolley  bus
    business,  the  electric  or  electronics  communications
    transmission  business,  the  transmission  of  goods  by
    pipeline,  or  the  distribution,  transmission,  or  the
    production and transmission of electricity, steam, gas or
    water, or the provision of sewer service.
    (o)  "Uncertificated  certificate  of  deposit"  means an
obligation of a bank, as defined in subsection (1) of Section
4-105, to repay a sum of money it has received, that is not a
deposit account and is not represented by a writing, but only
by an entry on the books of the bank  and  any  documentation
given to the customer by the bank.
    (2)  Other  definitions  applying to this Article and the
Sections in which they appear are:
    "Account". Section 9-106.
    "Attach". Section 9-203.
    "Commodity contract". Section 9-115.
    "Commodity customer". Section 9-115.
    "Commodity intermediary". Section 9-115.
    "Construction mortgage". Section 9-313 (1).
    "Consumer goods". Section 9-109 (1).
    "Control". Section 9-115.
    "Equipment". Section 9-109 (2).
    "Farm products". Section 9-109 (3).
    "Fixture". Section 9-313 (1).
    "Fixture filing". Section 9-313 (1).
    "General intangibles". Section 9-106.
    "Inventory". Section 9-109 (4).
    "Investment property". Section 9-115.
    "Lien creditor". Section 9-301 (3).
    "Proceeds". Section 9-306 (1).
    "Purchase money security interest". Section 9-107.
    "United States". Section 9-103.
    (3)  The following definitions in other Articles apply to
this Article:
    "Bank".  Section 4-105.
    "Broker".  Section 8-102.
    "Certificated security".  Section 8-102.
    "Check". Section 3-104.
    "Clearing corporation". Section 8-102.
    "Contract for sale". Section 2-106.
    "Control". Section 8-106.
    "Delivery". Section 8-301.
    "Entitlement holder". Section 8-102.
    "Financial asset". Section 8-102.
    "Holder in due course". Section 3-302.
    "Letter of credit". Section 5-102.
    "Note". Section 3-104.
    "Proceeds of a letter of credit". Section 5-114(a).
    "Sale". Section 2-106.
    "Securities intermediary". Section 8-102.
    "Security". Section 8-102.
    "Security certificate". Section 8-102.
    "Security entitlement". Section 8-102.
    "Uncertificated security". Section 8-102.
    (4)  In addition Article 1 contains  general  definitions
and  principles of construction and interpretation applicable
throughout this Article.
(Source: P.A.  89-364,  eff.  1-1-96;  89-534,  eff.  1-1-97;
90-665, eff. 7-30-98.)

    (810 ILCS 5/9-106) (from Ch. 26, par. 9-106)
    Sec. 9-106.  Control of investment property.
    (a)  Control  under  Section 8-106.  A person has control
of  a  certificated  security,  uncertificated  security,  or
security entitlement as provided in Section 8-106.
    (b)  Control of commodity contract.  A secured party  has
control of a commodity contract if:
         (1)  the secured party is the commodity intermediary
    with which the commodity contract is carried; or
         (2)  the  commodity  customer,  secured  party,  and
    commodity  intermediary  have  agreed  that the commodity
    intermediary will apply any value distributed on  account
    of  the  commodity  contract  as  directed by the secured
    party without further consent by the commodity customer.
    (c)  Effect of control of securities account or commodity
account.  A secured party  having  control  of  all  security
entitlements  or  commodity contracts carried in a securities
account or commodity account has control over the  securities
account   or   commodity   account.  Definitions:  "account";
"general intangibles". "Account" means any right  to  payment
for  goods  sold  or leased or for services rendered which is
not evidenced by an instrument or chattel paper,  whether  or
not  it has been earned by performance. "General intangibles"
means any personal  property  (including  things  in  action)
other   than   goods,  accounts,  chattel  paper,  documents,
instruments,  investment  property,  rights  to  proceeds  of
written letters of credit, deposit  accounts,  uncertificated
certificates  of  deposit,  and  money. All rights to payment
earned  or  unearned  under  a  charter  or  other   contract
involving the use or hire of a vessel and all rights incident
to the charter or contract are accounts.
(Source:  P.A.  89-364,  eff.  1-1-96;  89-534,  eff. 1-1-97;
90-665, eff. 7-30-98.)

    (810 ILCS 5/9-107) (from Ch. 26, par. 9-107)
    Sec.  9-107.   Control  of  letter-of-credit  right.    A
secured  party has control of a letter-of-credit right to the
extent of any right to payment or performance by  the  issuer
or any nominated person if the issuer or nominated person has
consented  to  an  assignment  of  proceeds  of the letter of
credit under Section 5-114(c) or otherwise applicable law  or
practice. Definitions: "purchase money security interest".
    A   security  interest  is  a  "purchase  money  security
interest" to the extent that it is
         (a)  taken  or  retained  by  the  seller   of   the
collateral to secure all or part of its price; or
         (b)  taken  by  a  person  who by making advances or
incurring an obligation gives value to enable the  debtor  to
acquire  rights  in or the use of collateral if such value is
in fact so used.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 2101.)

    (810 ILCS 5/9-108) (from Ch. 26, par. 9-108)
    Sec. 9-108.  Sufficiency of description.
    (a)  Sufficiency of  description.   Except  as  otherwise
provided  in  subsections (c), (d), and (e), a description of
personal or real property is sufficient, whether or not it is
specific, if it reasonably identifies what is described.
    (b)  Examples of reasonable  identification.   Except  as
otherwise  provided  in  subsection  (d),  a  description  of
collateral   reasonably   identifies  the  collateral  if  it
identifies the collateral by:
         (1)  specific listing;
         (2)  category;
         (3)  except as otherwise provided in subsection (e),
    a type of collateral defined in  the  Uniform  Commercial
    Code;
         (4)  quantity;
         (5)  computational   or   allocational   formula  or
    procedure; or
         (6)  except as otherwise provided in subsection (c),
    any other method, if the identity of  the  collateral  is
    objectively determinable.
    (c)  Supergeneric    description   not   sufficient.    A
description of collateral as "all  the  debtor's  assets"  or
"all  the  debtor's  personal  property"  or  using  words of
similar import does not reasonably identify the collateral.
    (d)  Investment property.  Except as  otherwise  provided
in  subsection  (e), a description of a security entitlement,
securities account, or commodity account is sufficient if  it
describes:
         (1)  the  collateral by those terms or as investment
    property; or
         (2)  the underlying  financial  asset  or  commodity
    contract.
    (e)  When    description   by   type   insufficient.    A
description only by type of collateral defined in the Uniform
Commercial Code is an insufficient description of:
         (1)  a commercial tort claim; or
         (2)  in a consumer transaction,  consumer  goods,  a
    security   entitlement,   a   securities  account,  or  a
    commodity account.  When  after-acquired  collateral  not
    security for antecedent debt.
    Where  a  secured  party  makes  an  advance,  incurs  an
obligation,   releases  a  perfected  security  interest,  or
otherwise gives new value which is to be secured in whole  or
in  part  by after-acquired property his security interest in
the after-acquired collateral shall be deemed to be taken for
new value and not as security for an antecedent debt  if  the
debtor  acquires  his rights in such collateral either in the
ordinary course of  his  business  or  under  a  contract  of
purchase  made  pursuant  to  the security agreement within a
reasonable time after new value is given.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 2101.)

    (810 ILCS 5/Art. 9, Part 1, Subpart 2 heading new)
            SUBPART 2.  APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE

    (810 ILCS 5/9-109) (from Ch. 26, par. 9-109)
    Sec. 9-109.  Scope.
    (a)  General  scope  of  Article.   Except  as  otherwise
provided in subsections (c) and (d), this Article applies to:
         (1)  a transaction, regardless  of  its  form,  that
    creates  a  security  interest  in  personal  property or
    fixtures by contract;
         (2)  an agricultural lien;
         (3)  a sale  of  accounts,  chattel  paper,  payment
    intangibles, or promissory notes;
         (4)  a consignment;
         (5)  a   security  interest  arising  under  Section
    2-401, 2-505, 2-711(3),  or  2A-508(5),  as  provided  in
    Section 9-110; and
         (6)  a security interest arising under Section 4-210
    or 5-118.
    (b)  Security   interest   in  secured  obligation.   The
application of this Article  to  a  security  interest  in  a
secured  obligation  is  not  affected  by  the fact that the
obligation is itself secured by a transaction or interest  to
which this Article does not apply.
    (c)  Extent  to  which  Article  does  not  apply.   This
Article does not apply to the extent that:
         (1)  a  statute, regulation, or treaty of the United
    States preempts this Article;
         (2)  another statute of this State expressly governs
    the creation, perfection, priority, or enforcement  of  a
    security interest created by this State or a governmental
    unit of this State;
         (3)  a  statute of another State, a foreign country,
    or a governmental unit of  another  State  or  a  foreign
    country,  other  than  a  statute generally applicable to
    security   interests,   expressly    governs    creation,
    perfection,   priority,  or  enforcement  of  a  security
    interest created by the State, country,  or  governmental
    unit;
         (4)  the  rights  of  a  transferee  beneficiary  or
    nominated person under a letter of credit are independent
    and superior under Section 5-114;
         (5)  this   Article  is  in  conflict  with  Section
    205-410 of the Department of Agriculture Law of the Civil
    Administrative Code of Illinois or the Grain Code; or
         (6)  this Article is in conflict with Section 18-107
    of the Public Utilities Act.
    (d)  Inapplicability of Article.  This Article  does  not
apply to:
         (1)  a  landlord's  lien, other than an agricultural
    lien;
         (2)  a lien, other than an agricultural lien,  given
    by   statute  or  other  rule  of  law  for  services  or
    materials, but Section  9-333  applies  with  respect  to
    priority of the lien;
         (3)  an  assignment of a claim for wages, salary, or
    other compensation of an employee;
         (4)  a sale  of  accounts,  chattel  paper,  payment
    intangibles, or promissory notes as part of a sale of the
    business out of which they arose;
         (5)  an   assignment  of  accounts,  chattel  paper,
    payment intangibles, or promissory notes which is for the
    purpose of collection only;
         (6)  an assignment of a right  to  payment  under  a
    contract to an assignee that is also obligated to perform
    under the contract;
         (7)  an  assignment  of  a  single  account, payment
    intangible, or promissory note to an assignee in full  or
    partial satisfaction of a preexisting indebtedness;
         (8)  a  transfer of  an interest in or an assignment
    of a claim under a policy of  insurance,  other  than  an
    assignment   by   or  to  a  health-care  provider  of  a
    health-care-insurance  receivable  and   any   subsequent
    assignment  of  the  right to payment, but Sections 9-315
    and 9-322 apply with respect to proceeds  and  priorities
    in proceeds;
         (9)  an  assignment  of  a  right  represented  by a
    judgment, other than a  judgment  taken  on  a  right  to
    payment that was collateral;
         (10)  a right of recoupment or set-off, but:
              (A)  Section  9-340 applies with respect to the
         effectiveness of rights  of  recoupment  or  set-off
         against deposit accounts; and
              (B)  Section  9-404  applies  with  respect  to
         defenses or claims of an account debtor;
         (11)  the  creation or transfer of an interest in or
    lien  on  real  property,  including  a  lease  or  rents
    thereunder, except to the extent that provision  is  made
    for:
              (A)  liens  on  real property in Sections 9-203
         and 9-308;
              (B)  fixtures in Section 9-334;
              (C)  fixture filings in Sections 9-501,  9-502,
         9-512, 9-516, and 9-519; and
              (D)  security  agreements covering personal and
         real property in Section 9-604;
         (12)  an assignment of  a  claim  arising  in  tort,
    other  than  a  commercial tort claim, but Sections 9-315
    and 9-322 apply with respect to proceeds  and  priorities
    in proceeds;
         (13)  a  transfer  by  a  government or governmental
    subdivision or agency;
         (14)  a claim or a right to receive compensation for
    injuries or sickness as described in Section 104(a)(1) or
    (2) of Title 26 of the United  States  Code,  as  amended
    from time to time; or
         (15)  a  claim  or right to receive benefits under a
    special needs trust as described in  Section  1396p(d)(4)
    of  Title  42  of the United States Code, as amended from
    time to time. Classification of goods; "consumer  goods";
    "equipment"; "farm products"; "inventory". Goods are
    (1)  "consumer  goods" if they are used or bought for use
primarily for personal, family or household purposes;
    (2)  "equipment" if they  are  used  or  bought  for  use
primarily  in business (including farming or a profession) or
by  a  debtor  who  is  a  non-profit   organization   or   a
governmental  subdivision  or  agency or if the goods are not
included in the definitions of inventory,  farm  products  or
consumer goods;
    (3)  "farm  products"  if  they are crops or livestock or
supplies used or produced in farming operations  or  if  they
are  products  of  crops or livestock in their unmanufactured
states (such as ginned cotton, wool-clip, maple  syrup,  milk
and  eggs)  or if they are aquatic products as defined in the
Aquaculture  Development  Act,  and  if  they  are   in   the
possession of a debtor engaged in raising, fattening, grazing
or  other  farming  or  aquacultural operations. If goods are
farm products they are neither equipment nor inventory;
    (4)  "inventory" if they are held by a person  who  holds
them  for sale or lease or to be furnished under contracts of
service or if he has so furnished them, or if  they  are  raw
materials, work in process or materials used or consumed in a
business.  Inventory  of  a person is not to be classified as
his equipment.
(Source: P.A. 85-856.)

    (810 ILCS 5/9-110) (from Ch. 26, par. 9-110)
    Sec. 9-110.  Security interests arising under  Article  2
or  2A.   A  security  interest  arising under Section 2-401,
2-505, 2-711(3), or 2A-508(5) is  subject  to  this  Article.
However, until the debtor obtains possession of the goods:
         (1)  the  security  interest is enforceable, even if
    Section 9-203(b)(3) has not been satisfied;
         (2)  filing is not required to perfect the  security
    interest;
         (3)  the  rights  of the secured party after default
    by the debtor are governed by Article 2 or 2A; and
         (4)  the  security  interest  has  priority  over  a
    conflicting security  interest  created  by  the  debtor.
    Sufficiency of description.
    For  the  purposes  of  this  Article  any description of
personal property or real estate is sufficient whether or not
it is specific if it reasonably identifies what is described.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 2101.)

    (810 ILCS 5/9-112) (from Ch. 26, par. 9-112)
    Sec. 9-112. (Blank). Where collateral  is  not  owned  by
debtor.
    Unless  otherwise agreed, when a secured party knows that
collateral is owned by a person who is not  the  debtor,  the
owner  of  the  collateral  is  entitled  to receive from the
secured party any surplus under Section 9-- 502(2)  or  under
Section  9--504(1), and is not liable for the debt or for any
deficiency after resale, and he has the  same  right  as  the
debtor
         (a)  to receive statements under Section 9--208;
         (b)  to receive notice of and to object to a secured
party's  proposal to retain the collateral in satisfaction of
the indebtedness under Section 9--505;
         (c)  to redeem the collateral under Section 9--506;
         (d)  to obtain  injunctive  or  other  relief  under
Section 9--507(1); and
         (e)  to  recover  losses caused to him under Section
9--208(2).
(Source: Laws 1961, 1st S.S., p. 7.)

    (810 ILCS 5/9-113) (from Ch. 26, par. 9-113)
    Sec. 9-113. (Blank).  Security  interests  arising  under
Article on Sales or under Article on Leases.
    A  security  interest arising solely under the Article on
Sales (Article 2) or the Article on Leases  (Article  2A)  is
subject  to the provisions of this Article except that to the
extent that and so long as the debtor does not have  or  does
not lawfully obtain possession of the goods
         (a)  no  security agreement is necessary to make the
    security interest enforceable; and
         (b)  no filing is required to perfect  the  security
    interest; and
         (c)  the  rights  of the secured party on default by
    the debtor are governed  (i)  by  the  Article  on  Sales
    (Article  2)  in  the case of a security interest arising
    solely under such Article  or  (ii)  by  the  Article  on
    Leases  (Article  2A)  in the case of a security interest
    arising solely under such Article.
(Source: P.A. 87-493.)

    (810 ILCS 5/9-114) (from Ch. 26, par. 9-114)
    Sec. 9-114. (Blank). Consignment.
    (1)  A person who  delivers  goods  under  a  consignment
which is not a security interest and who would be required to
file under this Article by paragraph (3) (c) of Section 2-326
has  priority  over  a  secured  party  who  is  or becomes a
creditor of the consignee and  who  would  have  a  perfected
security  interest  in the goods if they were the property of
the  consignee,  and  also  has  priority  with  respect   to
identifiable  cash proceeds received on or before delivery of
the goods to a buyer, if
    (a)  the consignor complies with the filing provision  of
the  Article on Sales with respect to consignments (paragraph
(3) (c)  of  Section  2-326  before  the  consignee  receives
possession of the goods; and
    (b)  the  consignor  gives notification in writing to the
holder of the security interest if the  holder  has  filed  a
financing  statement  covering the same types of goods before
the date of the filing made by the consignor; and
    (c)  the holder of the  security  interest  receives  the
notification  within  5  years  before the consignee receives
possession of the goods; and
    (d)  the notification states that the  consignor  expects
to  deliver goods on consignment to the consignee, describing
the goods by item or type.
    (2)  In the case of a consignment which is not a security
interest and in  which  the  requirements  of  the  preceding
subsection  have not been met, a person who delivers goods to
another is subordinate to a person who would have a perfected
security interest in the goods if they were the  property  of
the debtor.
(Source: P. A. 78-238.)

    (810 ILCS 5/9-115) (from Ch. 26, par. 9-115)
    Sec. 9-115. (Blank). Investment property.
    (1)  In this Article:
         (a)  "Commodity account" means an account maintained
    by a commodity intermediary in which a commodity contract
    is carried for a commodity customer.
         (b)  "Commodity  contract" means a commodity futures
    contract, an option on a commodity  futures  contract,  a
    commodity  option,  or other contract that, in each case,
    is:
              (i)  traded on or subject to  the  rules  of  a
         board  of  trade  that  has  been  designated  as  a
         contract  market for such a contract pursuant to the
         federal commodities laws; or
              (ii)  traded on a foreign  commodity  board  of
         trade,  exchange,  or  market, and is carried on the
         books of a commodity intermediary  for  a  commodity
         customer.
         (c)  "Commodity  customer" means a person for whom a
    commodity intermediary carries a  commodity  contract  on
    its books.
         (d)  "Commodity intermediary" means:
              (i)  a  person  who  is registered as a futures
         commission merchant under  the  federal  commodities
         laws; or
              (ii)  a  person  who  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  the
         federal commodities laws.
         (e)  "Control"   with   respect  to  a  certificated
    security,   uncertificated    security,    or    security
    entitlement  has  the meaning specified in Section 8-106.
    A secured party has control over a commodity contract  if
    by  agreement among the commodity customer, the commodity
    intermediary,  and  the  secured  party,  the   commodity
    intermediary  has  agreed  that  it  will apply any value
    distributed on  account  of  the  commodity  contract  as
    directed  by the secured party without further consent by
    the commodity customer.  If a commodity customer grants a
    security interest in a  commodity  contract  to  its  own
    commodity  intermediary,  the  commodity  intermediary as
    secured party has control.  A secured party  has  control
    over  a  securities  account  or commodity account if the
    secured party has control over all security  entitlements
    or  commodity contracts carried in the securities account
    or commodity account.
         (f)  "Investment property" means:
              (i)  a  security,   whether   certificated   or
         uncertificated;
              (ii)  a security entitlement;
              (iii)  a securities account;
              (iv)  a commodity contract; or
              (v)  a commodity account.
    (2)  Attachment or perfection of a security interest in a
securities  account  is  also  attachment  or perfection of a
security interest in all security entitlements carried in the
securities account.  Attachment or perfection of  a  security
interest  in  a  commodity  account  is  also  attachment  or
perfection  of a security interest in all commodity contracts
carried in the commodity account.
    (3)  A description of collateral in a security  agreement
or  financing  statement is sufficient to create or perfect a
security interest in a certificated security,  uncertificated
security, security entitlement, securities account, commodity
contract,  or  commodity  account  whether  it  describes the
collateral by those terms, or as investment property,  or  by
description  of  the underlying security, financial asset, or
commodity contract.  A  description  of  investment  property
collateral  in a security agreement or financing statement is
sufficient  if  it  identifies  the  collateral  by  specific
listing, by category, by  quantity,  by  a  computational  or
allocational formula or procedure, or by any other method, if
the identity of the collateral is objectively determinable.
    (4)  Perfection  of  a  security  interest  in investment
property is governed by the following rules:
         (a)  A security interest in investment property  may
    be perfected by control.
         (b)  Except  as otherwise provided in paragraphs (c)
    and (d), a security interest in investment  property  may
    be perfected by filing.
         (c)  If   the  debtor  is  a  broker  or  securities
    intermediary a security interest in  investment  property
    is perfected when it attaches.  The filing of a financing
    statement   with   respect  to  a  security  interest  in
    investment property granted by  a  broker  or  securities
    intermediary  has no effect for purposes of perfection or
    priority with respect to that security interest.
         (d)  If a debtor  is  a  commodity  intermediary,  a
    security  interest in a commodity contract or a commodity
    account is perfected when it attaches.  The filing  of  a
    financing  statement  with respect to a security interest
    in a commodity contract or a commodity account granted by
    a commodity intermediary has no effect  for  purposes  of
    perfection  or  priority  with  respect  to that security
    interest.
    (5)  Priority between conflicting security  interests  in
the  same  investment  property  is governed by the following
rules:
         (a)  A security interest of a secured party who  has
    control  over  investment  property  has  priority over a
    security interest of a secured party who  does  not  have
    control over the investment property.
         (b)  Except  as otherwise provided in paragraphs (c)
    and  (d),  conflicting  security  interests  of   secured
    parties each of whom has control rank equally.
         (c)  Except  as  otherwise  agreed by the securities
    intermediary,  a  security   interest   in   a   security
    entitlement  or  a  securities  account  granted  to  the
    debtor's  own  securities  intermediary has priority over
    any security interest granted by the  debtor  to  another
    secured party.
         (d)  Except  as  otherwise  agreed  by the commodity
    intermediary, a security interest in a commodity contract
    or a  commodity  account  granted  to  the  debtor's  own
    commodity  intermediary  has  priority  over any security
    interest granted by the debtor to another secured party.
         (e)  Conflicting security  interests  granted  by  a
    broker,   a   securities  intermediary,  or  a  commodity
    intermediary which are  perfected  without  control  rank
    equally.
         (f)  In    all   other   cases,   priority   between
    conflicting security interests in investment property  is
    governed  by  Section  9-312(5),  (6),  and  (7). Section
    9-312(4) does not apply to investment property.
    (6)  If a security  certificate  in  registered  form  is
delivered to a secured party pursuant to agreement, a written
security   agreement   is  not  required  for  attachment  or
enforceability of the security  interest,  delivery  suffices
for  perfection  of  the  security interest, and the security
interest has priority over a  conflicting  security  interest
perfected  by  means  other than control, even if a necessary
indorsement is lacking.
(Source: P.A. 89-364, eff. 1-1-96.)
    (810 ILCS 5/9-116)
    Sec.  9-116.   (Blank).  Security  interest  arising   in
purchase or delivery of financial asset.
    (1)  If  a  person  buys  a  financial  asset  through  a
securities  intermediary  in a transaction in which the buyer
is obligated to pay the  purchase  price  to  the  securities
intermediary  at the time of the purchase, and the securities
intermediary credits  the  financial  asset  to  the  buyer's
securities  account  before  the  buyer  pays  the securities
intermediary, the  securities  intermediary  has  a  security
interest  in  the  buyer's  security entitlement securing the
buyer's obligation to  pay.   A  security  agreement  is  not
required  for  attachment  or  enforceability of the security
interest,  and  the  security   interest   is   automatically
perfected.
    (2)  If a certificated security, or other financial asset
represented  by  a  writing  which  in the ordinary course of
business  is  transferred  by  delivery  with  any  necessary
indorsement  or  assignment  is  delivered  pursuant  to   an
agreement  between  persons  in  the business of dealing with
such securities or financial assets and the  agreement  calls
for  delivery  versus  payment,  the  person  delivering  the
certificate  or other financial asset has a security interest
in  the  certificated  security  or  other  financial   asset
securing  the  seller's right to receive payment.  A security
agreement is not required for attachment or enforceability of
the  security  interest,  and  the   security   interest   is
automatically perfected.
(Source: P.A. 89-364, eff. 1-1-96.)

    (810 ILCS 5/9-150)
    Sec.  9-150.   (Blank).  Secretary  of  State; rules. The
Secretary  of  State,  under  the   Illinois   Administrative
Procedure  Act,  may  adopt rules necessary to administer the
Secretary of State's responsibilities under this Article.
(Source: P.A. 89-364, eff. 1-1-96.)

    (810 ILCS 5/Art. 9, Part 2 heading)
        PART 2. EFFECTIVENESS OF SECURITY AGREEMENT;
              ATTACHMENT OF SECURITY INTEREST;
           RIGHTS OF PARTIES TO SECURITY AGREEMENT
               VALIDITY OF SECURITY AGREEMENT
                AND RIGHTS OF PARTIES THERETO

    (810 ILCS 5/Art. 9, Part 2, Subpart 1 heading new)
          SUBPART 1.  EFFECTIVENESS AND ATTACHMENT

    (810 ILCS 5/9-201) (from Ch. 26, par. 9-201)
    Sec. 9-201. General effectiveness of security agreement.
    (a)  General effectiveness.  Except as otherwise provided
in the Uniform  Commercial  Code,  a  security  agreement  is
effective according to its terms between the parties, against
purchasers of the collateral, and against creditors.
    (b)  Applicable   consumer   laws   and   other  law.   A
transaction  subject  to  this  Article  is  subject  to  any
applicable  rule  of  law,  statute,  or   regulation   which
establishes a different rule for consumers, including:
         (1)  the Retail Installment Sales Act;
         (2)  the Motor Vehicle Retail Installment Sales Act;
         (3)  Article II of Chapter 3 of the Illinois Vehicle
    Code;
         (4)  Article  IIIB  of  the  Boat  Registration  and
    Safety Act;
         (5)  the Pawnbroker Regulation Act;
         (6)  the Motor Vehicle Leasing Act;
         (7)  the Consumer Installment Loan Act; and
         (8)  the Consumer Deposit Security Act of 1987.
    (c)  Other  applicable law controls.  In case of conflict
between  this  Article  and  a  rule  of  law,  statute,   or
regulation  described  in  subsection  (b),  the rule of law,
statute, or regulation controls.  Failure to  comply  with  a
rule  of  law, statute, or regulation described in subsection
(b) has only  the  effect  such  rule  of  law,  statute,  or
regulation specifies.
    (d)  Further  deference  to  other  applicable law.  This
Article does not:
         (1)  validate  any  rate,  charge,   agreement,   or
    practice  that  violates  a  rule  of  law,  statute,  or
    regulation described in subsection (b); or
         (2)  extend  the  application  of  the  rule of law,
    statute, or regulation to  a  transaction  not  otherwise
    subject to it. General validity of security agreement.
    Except  as  otherwise  provided  by  this  Act a security
agreement is effective according to  its  terms  between  the
parties,  against  purchasers  of  the collateral and against
creditors. Nothing in this Article validates  any  charge  or
practice  illegal  under any statute or regulation thereunder
governing usury, small loans, retail  installment  sales,  or
the  like,  or extends the application of any such statute or
regulation to any transaction not otherwise subject thereto.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 2101.)

    (810 ILCS 5/9-202) (from Ch. 26, par. 9-202)
    Sec. 9-202. Title to collateral  immaterial.   Except  as
otherwise  provided  with respect to consignments or sales of
accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles,  or  promissory
notes,  the  provisions of this Article with regard to rights
and obligations apply whether title to collateral is  in  the
secured party or the debtor.
    Each  provision  of  this  Article with regard to rights,
obligations and remedies applies whether title to  collateral
is in the secured party or in the debtor.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 2101.)

    (810 ILCS 5/9-203) (from Ch. 26, par. 9-203)
    Sec.  9-203.  Attachment  and  enforceability of security
interest;   proceeds;    supporting    obligations;    formal
requisites.
    (a)  Attachment.    A   security   interest  attaches  to
collateral when it becomes  enforceable  against  the  debtor
with respect to the collateral, unless an agreement expressly
postpones the time of attachment.
    (b)  Enforceability.   Except  as  otherwise  provided in
subsections  (c)  through  (i),  a   security   interest   is
enforceable against the debtor and third parties with respect
to the collateral only if:
         (1)  value has been given;
         (2)  the  debtor has rights in the collateral or the
    power to transfer rights in the collateral to  a  secured
    party; and
         (3)  one of the following conditions is met:
              (A)  the  debtor  has  authenticated a security
         agreement  that  provides  a  description   of   the
         collateral  and,  if  the  security  interest covers
         timber  to  be  cut,  a  description  of  the   land
         concerned;
              (B)  the   collateral  is  not  a  certificated
         security and is in the  possession  of  the  secured
         party  under  Section 9-313 pursuant to the debtor's
         security agreement;
              (C)  the collateral is a certificated  security
         in  registered form and the security certificate has
         been delivered to the secured  party  under  Section
         8-301  pursuant  to the debtor's security agreement;
         or
              (D)  the  collateral   is   deposit   accounts,
         electronic  chattel  paper,  investment property, or
         letter-of-credit rights, and the secured  party  has
         control  under Section 9-104, 9-105, 9-106, or 9-107
         pursuant to the debtor's security agreement.
    (c)  Other UCC provisions.  Subsection (b) is subject  to
Section  4-210 on the security interest of a collecting bank,
Section 5-118 on the security interest of a  letter-of-credit
issuer  or  nominated  person,  Section  9-110  on a security
interest arising under Article 2 or 2A, and Section 9-206  on
security interests in investment property.
    (d)  When   person  becomes  bound  by  another  person's
security agreement.  A person becomes bound as  debtor  by  a
security  agreement  entered  into  by  another person if, by
operation of law other than this Article or by contract:
         (1)  the security  agreement  becomes  effective  to
    create a security interest in the person's property; or
         (2)  the  person becomes generally obligated for the
    obligations of the other person, including the obligation
    secured under the security  agreement,  and  acquires  or
    succeeds to all or substantially all of the assets of the
    other person.
    (e)  Effect  of  new  debtor  becoming  bound.   If a new
debtor becomes  bound  as  debtor  by  a  security  agreement
entered into by another person:
         (1)  the  agreement satisfies subsection (b)(3) with
    respect to existing or after-acquired property of the new
    debtor to the extent the property  is  described  in  the
    agreement; and
         (2)  another  agreement  is  not necessary to make a
    security interest in the property enforceable.
    (f)  Proceeds and supporting obligations.  The attachment
of a security interest in collateral gives the secured  party
the  rights to proceeds provided by Section 9-315 and is also
attachment of a security interest in a supporting  obligation
for the collateral.
    (g)  Lien securing right to payment.  The attachment of a
security  interest  in  a  right  to  payment  or performance
secured by a security interest or other lien on  personal  or
real  property  is  also attachment of a security interest in
the security interest, mortgage, or other lien.
    (h)  Security entitlement carried in securities  account.
The attachment of a security interest in a securities account
is  also  attachment  of  a security interest in the security
entitlements carried in the securities account.
    (i)  Commodity contracts carried  in  commodity  account.
The  attachment of a security interest in a commodity account
is also attachment of a security interest  in  the  commodity
contracts  carried  in  the commodity account. Attachment and
Enforceability of Security Interest; Proceeds; Requisites.
    (1)  Subject to the provisions of Section  4-208  on  the
security  interest  of  a collecting bank, Sections 9-115 and
9-116 on  security  interests  in  investment  property,  and
Section  9-113  on  a  security  interest  arising  under the
Article on Sales, a  security  interest  is  not  enforceable
against  the  debtor  or  third  parties  with respect to the
collateral and does not attach unless:
         (a)  the collateral is  in  the  possession  of  the
    secured  party  pursuant  to agreement, the collateral is
    investment property and the  secured  party  has  control
    pursuant  to  agreement,  or  the  debtor  has  signed  a
    security  agreement  which  contains a description of the
    collateral and, in addition, a description  of  the  land
    when  the  security agreement covers (i) crops growing or
    to be grown and is signed by the debtor prior to  January
    1, 1996, or (ii) timber to be cut;
         (b)  value has been given; and
         (c)  the debtor has rights in the collateral.
    (2)  A   security   interest  attaches  when  it  becomes
enforceable  against  the  debtor   with   respect   to   the
collateral.  Attachment  occurs  as soon as all of the events
specified in subsection (1) have taken place unless  explicit
agreement postpones the time of attaching.
    (3)  Unless  otherwise  agreed a security agreement gives
the secured party the rights to proceeds provided by  Section
9-306.
    (4)  A  transaction, although subject to this Article, is
also subject to the "Consumer Finance Act", approved July 10,
1935, as now or hereafter amended;  the  "Retail  Installment
Sales  Act",  approved  July  28,  1967,  as now or hereafter
amended; the "Motor Vehicle Retail  Installment  Sales  Act",
approved  July 28, 1967, as now or hereafter amended; Article
II of Chapter 3 of The Illinois Vehicle Code; Article IIIB of
the "Boat Registration and Safety Act", as now  or  hereafter
amended;  and  "An Act for the regulation of pawnbrokers, and
repealing a certain act  therein  named",  approved  June  9,
1909,  as  now  or  hereafter  amended;  and  in  the case of
conflict between the provisions of this Article and any  such
statute,  the  provisions of such statute control. Failure to
comply with any applicable statute has only the effect  which
is specified therein.
(Source:  P.A.  89-228,  eff.  1-1-96;  89-364,  eff. 1-1-96;
89-626, eff. 8-9-96.)

    (810 ILCS 5/9-204) (from Ch. 26, par. 9-204)
    Sec. 9-204.  After-acquired property; future advances.
    (a)  After-acquired  collateral.   Except  as   otherwise
provided  in  subsection (b), a security agreement may create
or  provide  for  a  security  interest   in   after-acquired
collateral.
    (b)  When  after-acquired  property clause not effective.
A security interest does not attach under a term constituting
an after-acquired property clause to:
         (1)  consumer goods, other than  an  accession  when
    given  as additional security, unless the debtor acquires
    rights in them within 10 days  after  the  secured  party
    gives value; or
         (2)  a commercial tort claim.
    (c)  Future   advances   and  other  value.   A  security
agreement  may  provide  that  collateral  secures,  or  that
accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles,  or  promissory
notes  are  sold in connection with, future advances or other
value, whether  or  not  the  advances  or  value  are  given
pursuant   to  commitment.  After-acquired  property;  future
advances.
    (1)  Except as provided in  Subsection  (2),  a  security
agreement  may  provide  that  any obligations covered by the
security  agreement  are  to  be  secured  by  after-acquired
collateral.
    (2)  No   security    interest    attaches    under    an
after-acquired  property  clause to consumer goods other than
accessions (Section 9-314) when given as additional  security
unless  the  debtor  acquires  rights  in them within 10 days
after the secured party gives value.
    (3)  Obligations covered  by  a  security  agreement  may
include  future  advances  or  other value whether or not the
advances  or  value  are   given   pursuant   to   commitment
(subsection (1) of Section 9-105).
(Source: P. A. 77-2810.)

    (810 ILCS 5/9-205) (from Ch. 26, par. 9-205)
    Sec.   9-205.    Use   or   disposition   of   collateral
permissible.
    (a)  When security interest not invalid or fraudulent.  A
security  interest  is  not  invalid  or  fraudulent  against
creditors solely because:
         (1)  the debtor has the right or ability to:
              (A)  use,  commingle, or dispose of all or part
         of the collateral, including returned or repossessed
         goods;
              (B)  collect, compromise, enforce, or otherwise
         deal with collateral;
              (C)  accept the return of  collateral  or  make
         repossessions; or
              (D)  use, commingle, or dispose of proceeds; or
         (2)  the  secured  party fails to require the debtor
    to account for proceeds or replace collateral.
    (b)  Requirements  of  possession  not   relaxed.    This
Section  does  not  relax  the  requirements of possession if
attachment, perfection, or enforcement of a security interest
depends upon possession of  the  collateral  by  the  secured
party.  Use  or  Disposition of Collateral Without Accounting
Permissible.
    A security interest is not invalid or fraudulent  against
creditors  by  reason  of  liberty  in  the  debtor  to  use,
commingle  or  dispose  of  all  or  part  of  the collateral
(including returned or repossessed goods) or  to  collect  or
compromise accounts or chattel paper, or to accept the return
of  goods  or  make  repossessions,  or  to use, commingle or
dispose of proceeds, or by  reason  of  the  failure  of  the
secured  party  to require the debtor to account for proceeds
or replace  collateral.  This  Section  does  not  relax  the
requirements  of  possession  where  perfection of a security
interest depends upon possession of  the  collateral  by  the
secured party or by a bailee.
(Source: P.A. 77-2810.)

    (810 ILCS 5/9-205.1) (from Ch. 26, par. 9-205.1)
    Sec.   9-205.1.  Listing   by  debtor  of  purchasers  or
receivers of collateral.  A secured party  may  require  that
the  debtor  include as part of the security agreement a list
of persons to whom the debtor desires to  sell  or  otherwise
dispose  of  the  collateral.  The  debtor  shall not sell or
otherwise dispose of the collateral to a person not  included
in that list unless the debtor has notified the secured party
of  his desire to sell or otherwise dispose of the collateral
to such person at least 7 days prior to  the  sale  or  other
disposition.
(Source: P.A. 83-69.)

    (810 ILCS 5/9-206) (from Ch. 26, par. 9-206)
    Sec.  9-206.   Security  interest  arising in purchase or
delivery of financial asset.
    (a)  Security   interest   when   person   buys   through
securities intermediary.  A security interest in favor  of  a
securities  intermediary  attaches  to  a  person's  security
entitlement if:
         (1)  the  person  buys a financial asset through the
    securities intermediary in a  transaction  in  which  the
    person  is  obligated  to  pay  the purchase price to the
    securities intermediary at the time of the purchase; and
         (2)  the   securities   intermediary   credits   the
    financial asset to the buyer's securities account  before
    the buyer pays the securities intermediary.
    (b)  Security  interest  secures  obligation  to  pay for
financial  asset.   The  security   interest   described   in
subsection (a) secures the person's obligation to pay for the
financial asset.
    (c)  Security   interest   in  payment  against  delivery
transaction.  A security interest in favor of a  person  that
delivers  a  certificated  security  or other financial asset
represented by a writing attaches to the  security  or  other
financial asset if:
         (1)  the security or other financial asset:
              (A)  in  the  ordinary  course  of  business is
         transferred   by   delivery   with   any   necessary
         indorsement or assignment; and
              (B)  is delivered under  an  agreement  between
         persons   in  the  business  of  dealing  with  such
         securities or financial assets; and
         (2)  the  agreement  calls  for   delivery   against
    payment.
    (d)  Security  interest  secures  obligation  to  pay for
delivery.  The security interest described in subsection  (c)
secures  the  obligation  to  make  payment for the delivery.
Agreement  not   to   assert   defenses   against   assignee;
modification  of  sales  warranties  where security agreement
exists.
    (1)  Subject to any statute or decision which establishes
a different rule for buyers or lessees of consumer goods,  an
agreement  by  a  buyer  or  lessee  that  he will not assert
against an assignee any claim or defense which  he  may  have
against  the  seller  or lessor is enforceable by an assignee
who takes his assignment for value, in good faith and without
notice of a claim or defense, except as to defenses of a type
which may be asserted against a holder in  due  course  of  a
negotiable  instrument  under the Article on Commercial Paper
(Article 3). A buyer who as part  of  one  transaction  signs
both  a  negotiable instrument and a security agreement makes
such an agreement.
    (2)  When a seller  retains  a  purchase  money  security
interest  in  goods  the Article on Sales (Article 2) governs
the sale and any disclaimer, limitation  or  modification  of
the seller's warranties.
(Source: Laws 1965, p. 803.)

    (810 ILCS 5/Art. 9, Part 2, Subpart 2 heading new)
                SUBPART 2.  RIGHTS AND DUTIES
    (810 ILCS 5/9-207) (from Ch. 26, par. 9-207)
    Sec.  9-207.   Rights  and duties of secured party having
possession or control of collateral.
    (a)  Duty of  care  when  secured  party  in  possession.
Except  as  otherwise  provided  in subsection (d), a secured
party  shall  use  reasonable  care  in   the   custody   and
preservation of collateral in the secured party's possession.
In  the  case  of  chattel paper or an instrument, reasonable
care includes  taking  necessary  steps  to  preserve  rights
against prior parties unless otherwise agreed.
    (b)  Expenses,  risks,  duties,  and  rights when secured
party  in  possession.   Except  as  otherwise  provided   in
subsection   (d),  if  a  secured  party  has  possession  of
collateral:
         (1)  reasonable  expenses,  including  the  cost  of
    insurance and payment of taxes or other charges, incurred
    in the custody, preservation, use, or  operation  of  the
    collateral  are  chargeable to the debtor and are secured
    by the collateral;
         (2)  the risk of accidental loss or damage is on the
    debtor to the extent of a  deficiency  in  any  effective
    insurance coverage;
         (3)  the  secured  party  shall  keep the collateral
    identifiable, but fungible collateral may be  commingled;
    and
         (4)  the  secured  party  may  use  or  operate  the
    collateral:
              (A)  for   the   purpose   of   preserving  the
         collateral or its value;
              (B)  as permitted by an order of a court having
         competent jurisdiction; or
              (C)  except in the case of consumer  goods,  in
         the manner and to the extent agreed by the debtor.
    (c)  Duties  and  rights when secured party in possession
or control. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d), a
secured party having possession of collateral or  control  of
collateral under Section 9-104, 9-105, 9-106, or 9-107:
         (1)  may  hold  as additional security any proceeds,
    except money or funds, received from the collateral;
         (2)  shall apply money or funds  received  from  the
    collateral  to  reduce  the  secured  obligation,  unless
    remitted to the debtor; and
         (3)  may   create   a   security   interest  in  the
    collateral.
    (d)  Buyer of certain rights to payment.  If the  secured
party   is  a  buyer  of  accounts,  chattel  paper,  payment
intangibles, or promissory notes or a consignor:
         (1)  subsection  (a)  does  not  apply  unless   the
    secured party is entitled under an agreement:
              (A)  to charge back uncollected collateral; or
              (B)  otherwise  to  full  or  limited  recourse
         against  the  debtor or a secondary obligor based on
         the nonpayment or other default of an account debtor
         or other obligor on the collateral; and
         (2)  subsections (b) and (c) do  not  apply.  Rights
    and   duties   when  collateral  is  in  secured  party's
    possession.
    (1)  A secured party must  use  reasonable  care  in  the
custody  and preservation of collateral in his possession. In
the case of an instrument or chattel  paper  reasonable  care
includes  taking  necessary  steps to preserve rights against
prior parties unless otherwise agreed.
    (2)  Unless otherwise agreed, when collateral is  in  the
secured party's possession
         (a)  reasonable  expenses (including the cost of any
insurance and payment of taxes or other charges) incurr