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92_HB2377

 
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 1        AN ACT concerning business transactions.

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

 4        Section 5.  The Uniform Commercial  Code  is  amended  by
 5    changing Sections 9-102 and 9-109 as follows:

 6        (810 ILCS 5/9-102) (from Ch. 26, par. 9-102)
 7        (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 91-893)
 8        Sec. 9-102. Policy and Subject Matter of Article.
 9        (1)  Except  as  otherwise  provided in Section 9--104 on
10    excluded transactions, this Article applies
11             (a)  to any transaction  (regardless  of  its  form)
12    which  is  intended to create a security interest in personal
13    property or fixtures including goods, documents, instruments,
14    general intangibles, chattel paper or accounts; and also
15             (b)  to any sale of accounts or chattel paper.
16        (2)  This Article applies to security  interests  created
17    by  contract  including pledge, assignment, chattel mortgage,
18    chattel trust, trust deed, factor's  lien,  equipment  trust,
19    conditional   sale,   trust  receipt,  other  lien  or  title
20    retention contract  and  lease  or  consignment  intended  as
21    security.  This  Article  does  not  apply to statutory liens
22    except as provided in Section 9--310.
23        (3)  The  application  of  this  Article  to  a  security
24    interest in a secured obligation is not affected by the  fact
25    that  the  obligation  is  itself secured by a transaction or
26    interest to which this Article does not apply.
27        (4)  The  application  of  this  Article  to  a  security
28    interest in a deposit account shall not displace a common law
29    right of set-off of the secured party as to a deposit account
30    maintained with the secured party.
31    (Source: P.A. 87-1037.)
 
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 1        (Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 91-893)
 2        Sec. 9-102. Definitions and index of definitions.
 3        (a)  Article 9 definitions.  In this Article:
 4             (1)  "Accession" means  goods  that  are  physically
 5        united  with  other  goods  in  such  a  manner  that the
 6        identity of the original goods is not lost.
 7             (2)  "Account", except as  used  in  "account  for",
 8        means  a  right  to  payment  of  a  monetary obligation,
 9        whether or not earned by performance,  (i)  for  property
10        that  has  been  or  is  to  be  sold,  leased, licensed,
11        assigned, or otherwise disposed  of,  (ii)  for  services
12        rendered  or  to  be  rendered,  (iii)  for  a  policy of
13        insurance issued or to be issued, (iv)  for  a  secondary
14        obligation  incurred  or  to  be incurred, (v) for energy
15        provided or to be provided, (vi) for the use or hire of a
16        vessel under a charter or other contract,  (vii)  arising
17        out  of the use of a credit or charge card or information
18        contained on or for use  with  the  card,  or  (viii)  as
19        winnings in a lottery or other game of chance operated or
20        sponsored  by  a  State, governmental unit of a State, or
21        person licensed or authorized to operate the  game  by  a
22        State or governmental unit of a State.  The term includes
23        health-care-insurance  receivables.   The  term  does not
24        include (i) rights to payment evidenced by chattel  paper
25        or  an  instrument,  (ii)  commercial  tort claims, (iii)
26        deposit   accounts,   (iv)   investment   property,   (v)
27        letter-of-credit rights or letters  of  credit,  or  (vi)
28        rights  to  payment  for money or funds advanced or sold,
29        other than rights arising out of the use of a  credit  or
30        charge  card  or information contained on or for use with
31        the card.
32             (3)  "Account debtor" means a person obligated on an
33        account, chattel paper, or general intangible.  The  term
34        does  not  include  persons obligated to pay a negotiable
 
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 1        instrument, even if the instrument  constitutes  part  of
 2        chattel paper.
 3             (4)  "Accounting",  except  as  used  in "accounting
 4        for", means a record:
 5                  (A)  authenticated by a secured party;
 6                  (B)  indicating the  aggregate  unpaid  secured
 7             obligations  as  of  a  date  not  more than 35 days
 8             earlier or 35  days  later  than  the  date  of  the
 9             record; and
10                  (C)  identifying    the   components   of   the
11             obligations in reasonable detail.
12             (5)  "Agricultural lien" means  an  interest,  other
13        than a security interest, in farm products:
14                  (A)  which secures payment or performance of an
15             obligation for:
16                       (i)  goods   or   services   furnished  in
17                  connection with a debtor's  farming  operation;
18                  or
19                       (ii)  rent  on  real  property leased by a
20                  debtor   in   connection   with   its   farming
21                  operation;
22                  (B)  which is created by statute in favor of  a
23             person that:
24                       (i)  in   the   ordinary   course  of  its
25                  business  furnished  goods  or  services  to  a
26                  debtor in connection with  a  debtor's  farming
27                  operation; or
28                       (ii)  leased  real property to a debtor in
29                  connection with the debtor's farming operation;
30                  and
31                  (C)  whose effectiveness does not depend on the
32             person's possession of the personal property.
33             (6)  "As-extracted collateral" means:
34                  (A)  oil,  gas,  or  other  minerals  that  are
 
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 1             subject to a security interest that:
 2                       (i)  is created  by  a  debtor  having  an
 3                  interest in the minerals before extraction; and
 4                       (ii)  attaches    to   the   minerals   as
 5                  extracted; or
 6                  (B)  accounts arising out of the  sale  at  the
 7             wellhead  or minehead of oil, gas, or other minerals
 8             in  which  the  debtor  had   an   interest   before
 9             extraction.
10             (7)  "Authenticate" means:
11                  (A)  to sign; or
12                  (B)  to execute or otherwise adopt a symbol, or
13             encrypt or similarly process a record in whole or in
14             part,  with the present intent of the authenticating
15             person to identify the person and adopt or accept  a
16             record.
17             (8)  "Bank" means an organization that is engaged in
18        the  business  of  banking.   The  term  includes savings
19        banks, savings and loan associations, credit unions,  and
20        trust companies.
21             (9)  "Cash  proceeds" means proceeds that are money,
22        checks, deposit accounts, or the like.
23             (10)  "Certificate of title" means a certificate  of
24        title  with  respect  to which a statute provides for the
25        security interest in question  to  be  indicated  on  the
26        certificate  as  a  condition  or  result of the security
27        interest's obtaining priority over the rights of  a  lien
28        creditor with respect to the collateral.
29             (11)  "Chattel paper" means a record or records that
30        evidence  both  a  monetary  obligation  and  a  security
31        interest  in  specific  goods,  a  security  interest  in
32        specific goods and software used in the goods, a security
33        interest  in  specific goods and license of software used
34        in the goods, a lease of specific goods, or  a  lease  of
 
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 1        specified  goods  and  a  license of software used in the
 2        goods.  In this paragraph, "monetary obligation" means  a
 3        monetary  obligation secured by the goods or owed under a
 4        lease of the goods and  includes  a  monetary  obligation
 5        with  respect  to  software  used in the goods.  The term
 6        does  not  include  (i)  charters  or   other   contracts
 7        involving  the  use  or  hire of a vessel or (ii) records
 8        that evidence a right to payment arising out of  the  use
 9        of a credit or charge card or information contained on or
10        for  use with the card.  If a transaction is evidenced by
11        records  that  include  an  instrument   or   series   of
12        instruments,   the   group   of  records  taken  together
13        constitutes chattel paper.
14             (12)  "Collateral" means the property subject  to  a
15        security   interest   or  agricultural  lien.   The  term
16        includes:
17                  (A)  proceeds  to  which  a  security  interest
18             attaches;
19                  (B)  accounts,    chattel    paper,     payment
20             intangibles,  and  promissory  notes  that have been
21             sold; and
22                  (C)  goods  that   are   the   subject   of   a
23             consignment.
24             (13)  "Commercial  tort claim" means a claim arising
25        in tort with respect to which:
26                  (A)  the claimant is an organization; or
27                  (B)  the claimant  is  an  individual  and  the
28             claim:
29                       (i)  arose in the course of the claimant's
30                  business or profession; and
31                       (ii)  does not include damages arising out
32                  of  personal  injury  to  or  the  death  of an
33                  individual.
34             (14)  "Commodity   account"   means    an    account
 
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 1        maintained   by  a  commodity  intermediary  in  which  a
 2        commodity contract is carried for a commodity customer.
 3             (15)  "Commodity contract" means a commodity futures
 4        contract, an option on a commodity  futures  contract,  a
 5        commodity  option, or another contract if the contract or
 6        option is:
 7                  (A)  traded on or subject to  the  rules  of  a
 8             board  of  trade  that  has  been  designated  as  a
 9             contract  market  for  such  a  contract pursuant to
10             federal commodities laws; or
11                  (B)  traded on a  foreign  commodity  board  of
12             trade,  exchange,  or  market, and is carried on the
13             books of a commodity intermediary  for  a  commodity
14             customer.
15             (16)  "Commodity  customer" means a person for which
16        a commodity intermediary carries a commodity contract  on
17        its books.
18             (17)  "Commodity intermediary" means a person that:
19                  (A)  is  registered  as  a  futures  commission
20             merchant under federal commodities law; or
21                  (B)  in  the  ordinary  course  of its business
22             provides clearance  or  settlement  services  for  a
23             board  of  trade  that  has  been  designated  as  a
24             contract market pursuant to federal commodities law.
25             (18)  "Communicate" means:
26                  (A)  to   send  a  written  or  other  tangible
27             record;
28                  (B)  to transmit a record by any  means  agreed
29             upon  by  the  persons  sending  and  receiving  the
30             record; or
31                  (C)  in the case of transmission of a record to
32             or  by  a filing office, to transmit a record by any
33             means prescribed by filing-office rule.
34             (19)  "Consignee" means a merchant  to  which  goods
 
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 1        are delivered in a consignment.
 2             (20)  "Consignment"  means a transaction, regardless
 3        of its form, in  which  a  person  delivers  goods  to  a
 4        merchant for the purpose of sale and:
 5                  (A)  the merchant:
 6                       (i)  deals  in  goods of that kind under a
 7                  name other than the name of the  person  making
 8                  delivery;
 9                       (ii)  is not an auctioneer; and
10                       (iii)  is   not  generally  known  by  its
11                  creditors  to  be  substantially   engaged   in
12                  selling the goods of others;
13                  (B)  with   respect   to   each  delivery,  the
14             aggregate value of the goods is $1,000  or  more  at
15             the time of delivery;
16                  (C)  the   goods   are   not   consumer   goods
17             immediately before delivery; and
18                  (D)  the transaction does not create a security
19             interest that secures an obligation.
20             (21)  "Consignor" means a person that delivers goods
21        to a consignee in a consignment.
22             (22)  "Consumer debtor" means a debtor in a consumer
23        transaction.
24             (23)  "Consumer  goods" means goods that are used or
25        bought  for  use  primarily  for  personal,  family,   or
26        household purposes.
27             (24)  "Consumer-goods  transaction" means a consumer
28        transaction in which:
29                  (A)  an   individual   incurs   an   obligation
30             primarily  for  personal,   family,   or   household
31             purposes; and
32                  (B)  a  security  interest  in  consumer  goods
33             secures the obligation.
34             (25)  "Consumer  obligor" means an obligor who is an
 
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 1        individual and who incurred the obligation as part  of  a
 2        transaction  entered into primarily for personal, family,
 3        or household purposes.
 4             (26)  "Consumer transaction" means a transaction  in
 5        which  (i)  an  individual incurs an obligation primarily
 6        for personal,  family,  or  household  purposes,  (ii)  a
 7        security  interest  secures the obligation, and (iii) the
 8        collateral is held or acquired  primarily  for  personal,
 9        family,   or   household  purposes.   The  term  includes
10        consumer-goods transactions.
11             (27)  "Continuation statement" means an amendment of
12        a financing statement which:
13                  (A)  identifies,  by  its  file   number,   the
14             initial financing statement to which it relates; and
15                  (B)  indicates   that   it  is  a  continuation
16             statement for, or that it is filed to  continue  the
17             effectiveness    of,    the   identified   financing
18             statement.
19             (28)  "Debtor" means:
20                  (A)  a person having an interest, other than  a
21             security  interest or other lien, in the collateral,
22             whether or not the person is an obligor;
23                  (B)  a  seller  of  accounts,  chattel   paper,
24             payment intangibles, or promissory notes; or
25                  (C)  a consignee.
26             (29)  "Deposit   account"   means  a  demand,  time,
27        savings, passbook, nonnegotiable certificates of deposit,
28        uncertificated certificates of deposit,  nontransferrable
29        certificates  of  deposit,  or similar account maintained
30        with a  bank.   The  term  does  not  include  investment
31        property or accounts evidenced by an instrument.
32             (30)  "Document"  means  a  document  of  title or a
33        receipt of the type described in Section 7-201(2).
34             (31)  "Electronic chattel paper" means chattel paper
 
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 1        evidenced  by  a  record   or   records   consisting   of
 2        information stored in an electronic medium.
 3             (32)  "Encumbrance"  means  a  right,  other than an
 4        ownership interest, in real property.  The term  includes
 5        mortgages and other liens on real property.
 6             (33)  "Equipment"  means goods other than inventory,
 7        farm products, or consumer goods.
 8             (34)  "Farm  products"  means  goods,   other   than
 9        standing  timber,  with  respect  to  which the debtor is
10        engaged in a farming operation and which are:
11                  (A)  crops grown,  growing,  or  to  be  grown,
12             including:
13                       (i)  crops  produced  on trees, vines, and
14                  bushes; and
15                       (ii)  aquatic    goods     produced     in
16                  aquacultural operations;
17                  (B)  livestock,   born   or  unborn,  including
18             aquatic goods produced in aquacultural operations;
19                  (C)  supplies used or  produced  in  a  farming
20             operation; or
21                  (D)  products  of  crops  or livestock in their
22             unmanufactured states.
23             (35)  "Farming     operation"     means     raising,
24        cultivating,  propagating,  fattening,  grazing,  or  any
25        other farming, livestock, or aquacultural operation.
26             (36)  "File number" means the number assigned to  an
27        initial financing statement pursuant to Section 9-519(a).
28             (37)  "Filing  office" means an office designated in
29        Section 9-501 as the place to file a financing statement.
30             (38)  "Filing-office  rule"  means  a  rule  adopted
31        pursuant to Section 9-526.
32             (39)  "Financing  statement"  means  a   record   or
33        records  composed  of  an initial financing statement and
34        any  filed  record  relating  to  the  initial  financing
 
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 1        statement.
 2             (40)  "Fixture  filing"  means  the  filing   of   a
 3        financing  statement  covering  goods  that are or are to
 4        become fixtures and satisfying Section 9-502(a) and  (b).
 5        The  term  includes  the  filing of a financing statement
 6        covering goods of a transmitting utility which are or are
 7        to become fixtures.
 8             (41)  "Fixtures" means goods  that  have  become  so
 9        related  to  particular real property that an interest in
10        them arises under real property law.
11             (42)  "General  intangible"   means   any   personal
12        property,   including   things   in  action,  other  than
13        accounts, chattel paper, commercial tort claims,  deposit
14        accounts,   documents,   goods,  instruments,  investment
15        property, letter-of-credit  rights,  letters  of  credit,
16        money, and oil, gas, or other minerals before extraction.
17        The term includes payment intangibles and software.
18             (43)  "Good  faith"  means  honesty  in fact and the
19        observance of reasonable  commercial  standards  of  fair
20        dealing.
21             (44)  "Goods" means all things that are movable when
22        a  security  interest  attaches.   The  term includes (i)
23        fixtures, (ii) standing timber that  is  to  be  cut  and
24        removed  under  a  conveyance or contract for sale, (iii)
25        the unborn young of animals, (iv) crops  grown,  growing,
26        or  to be grown, even if the crops are produced on trees,
27        vines, or bushes, and (v) manufactured homes.   The  term
28        also  includes  a  computer program embedded in goods and
29        any supporting information provided in connection with  a
30        transaction relating to the program if (i) the program is
31        associated  with  the  goods  in  such  a  manner that it
32        customarily is considered part of the goods, or  (ii)  by
33        becoming  the  owner  of  the  goods, a person acquires a
34        right to use the program in connection  with  the  goods.
 
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 1        The  term does not include a computer program embedded in
 2        goods that consist solely of  the  medium  in  which  the
 3        program  is  embedded.   The  term  also does not include
 4        accounts, chattel paper, commercial tort claims,  deposit
 5        accounts,  documents,  general  intangibles, instruments,
 6        investment property, letter-of-credit rights, letters  of
 7        credit,  money,  or  oil,  gas,  or other minerals before
 8        extraction.
 9             (45)  "Governmental  unit"  means   a   subdivision,
10        agency,  department,  county,  parish,  municipality,  or
11        other  unit  of  the  government  of the United States, a
12        State, or  a  foreign  country.   The  term  includes  an
13        organization having a separate corporate existence if the
14        organization  is eligible to issue debt on which interest
15        is exempt from income taxation  under  the  laws  of  the
16        United States.
17             (46)  "Health-care-insurance  receivable"  means  an
18        interest in or claim under a policy of insurance which is
19        a   right   to  payment  of  a  monetary  obligation  for
20        health-care goods or services provided.
21             (47)  "Instrument" means a negotiable instrument  or
22        any  other  writing that evidences a right to the payment
23        of a  monetary  obligation,  is  not  itself  a  security
24        agreement  or  lease,  and  is of a type that in ordinary
25        course of business is transferred by  delivery  with  any
26        necessary  indorsement  or assignment.  The term does not
27        include (i) investment property, (ii) letters of  credit,
28        (iii)   nonnegotiable   certificates   of  deposit,  (iv)
29        uncertificated    certificates    of     deposit,     (v)
30        nontransferrable   certificates   of   deposit,  or  (vi)
31        writings that evidence a right to payment arising out  of
32        the  use  of  a  credit  or  charge  card  or information
33        contained on or for use with the card.
34             (48)  "Inventory"  means  goods,  other  than   farm
 
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 1        products, which:
 2                  (A)  are leased by a person as lessor;
 3                  (B)  are  held by a person for sale or lease or
 4             to be furnished under a contract of service;
 5                  (C)  are furnished by a person under a contract
 6             of service; or
 7                  (D)  consist of raw materials, work in process,
 8             or materials used or consumed in a business.
 9             (49)  "Investment  property"   means   a   security,
10        whether    certificated   or   uncertificated,   security
11        entitlement, securities account, commodity  contract,  or
12        commodity account.
13             (50)  "Jurisdiction  of  organization", with respect
14        to a  registered  organization,  means  the  jurisdiction
15        under whose law the organization is organized.
16             (51)  "Letter-of-credit  right"  means  a  right  to
17        payment  or performance under a letter of credit, whether
18        or not the beneficiary has demanded or  is  at  the  time
19        entitled to demand payment or performance.  The term does
20        not  include the right of a beneficiary to demand payment
21        or performance under a letter of credit.
22             (52)  "Lien creditor" means:
23                  (A)  a creditor that has acquired a lien on the
24             property involved by attachment, levy, or the like;
25                  (B)  an assignee for benefit of creditors  from
26             the time of assignment;
27                  (C)  a  trustee  in bankruptcy from the date of
28             the filing of the petition; or
29                  (D)  a receiver in  equity  from  the  time  of
30             appointment.
31             (53)  "Manufactured   home"   means   a   structure,
32        transportable  in  one  or  more  sections, which, in the
33        traveling mode, is eight body feet or more in width or 40
34        body feet or more in length, or, when erected on site, is
 
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 1        320 or  more  square  feet,  and  which  is  built  on  a
 2        permanent  chassis  and designed to be used as a dwelling
 3        with or without a permanent foundation when connected  to
 4        the   required  utilities,  and  includes  the  plumbing,
 5        heating,   air-conditioning,   and   electrical   systems
 6        contained therein.  The term includes any structure  that
 7        meets  all  of  the requirements of this paragraph except
 8        the size requirements  and  with  respect  to  which  the
 9        manufacturer  voluntarily  files a certification required
10        by the United  States  Secretary  of  Housing  and  Urban
11        Development  and  complies with the standards established
12        under Title 42 of the United States Code.
13             (54)  "Manufactured-home   transaction"   means    a
14        secured transaction:
15                  (A)  that  creates  a  purchase-money  security
16             interest  in  a  manufactured  home,  other  than  a
17             manufactured home held as inventory; or
18                  (B)  in which a manufactured home, other than a
19             manufactured  home held as inventory, is the primary
20             collateral.
21             (55)  "Mortgage" means a consensual interest in real
22        property, including fixtures, which  secures  payment  or
23        performance of an obligation.
24             (56)  "New debtor" means a person that becomes bound
25        as  debtor under Section 9-203(d) by a security agreement
26        previously entered into by another person.
27             (57)  "New value"  means  (i)  money,  (ii)  money's
28        worth  in  property,  services,  or  new credit, or (iii)
29        release by  a  transferee  of  an  interest  in  property
30        previously  transferred to the transferee.  The term does
31        not  include  an  obligation  substituted   for   another
32        obligation.
33             (58)  "Noncash  proceeds"  means proceeds other than
34        cash proceeds.
 
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 1             (59)  "Obligor" means a person that, with respect to
 2        an obligation secured by a security  interest  in  or  an
 3        agricultural  lien on the collateral, (i) owes payment or
 4        other performance of the obligation,  (ii)  has  provided
 5        property  other  than the collateral to secure payment or
 6        other  performance  of  the  obligation,  or   (iii)   is
 7        otherwise  accountable in whole or in part for payment or
 8        other performance of the obligation.  The term  does  not
 9        include  issuers  or  nominated persons under a letter of
10        credit.
11             (60)  "Original debtor", except as used  in  Section
12        9-310(c),  means a person that, as debtor, entered into a
13        security agreement to which a new debtor has become bound
14        under Section 9-203(d).
15             (61)  "Payment   intangible"   means    a    general
16        intangible  under  which  the  account debtor's principal
17        obligation is a monetary obligation.
18             (62)  "Person  related  to",  with  respect  to   an
19        individual, means:
20                  (A)  the spouse of the individual;
21                  (B)  a   brother,  brother-in-law,  sister,  or
22             sister-in-law of the individual;
23                  (C)  an ancestor or lineal  descendant  of  the
24             individual or the individual's spouse; or
25                  (D)  any  other relative, by blood or marriage,
26             of the individual or  the  individual's  spouse  who
27             shares the same home with the individual.
28             (63)  "Person   related  to",  with  respect  to  an
29        organization, means:
30                  (A)  a   person    directly    or    indirectly
31             controlling,  controlled by, or under common control
32             with the organization;
33                  (B)  an officer or director  of,  or  a  person
34             performing  similar  functions  with respect to, the
 
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 1             organization;
 2                  (C)  an officer or director  of,  or  a  person
 3             performing  similar  functions  with  respect  to, a
 4             person described in subparagraph (A);
 5                  (D)  the spouse of an individual  described  in
 6             subparagraph (A), (B), or (C); or
 7                  (E)  an  individual  who is related by blood or
 8             marriage to an individual described in  subparagraph
 9             (A),  (B), (C), or (D) and shares the same home with
10             the individual.
11             (64)  "Proceeds",  except   as   used   in   Section
12        9-609(b), means the following property:
13                  (A)  whatever is acquired upon the sale, lease,
14             license,   exchange,   or   other   disposition   of
15             collateral;
16                  (B)  whatever  is  collected on, or distributed
17             on account of, collateral;
18                  (C)  rights arising out of collateral;
19                  (D)  to the extent of the value of  collateral,
20             claims  arising  out  of the loss, nonconformity, or
21             interference   with   the   use   of,   defects   or
22             infringement  of  rights  in,  or  damage  to,   the
23             collateral; or
24                  (E)  to  the  extent of the value of collateral
25             and to the extent  payable  to  the  debtor  or  the
26             secured  party,  insurance  payable by reason of the
27             loss or nonconformity of, defects or infringement of
28             rights in, or damage to, the collateral.
29             (65)  "Promissory note"  means  an  instrument  that
30        evidences  a  promise  to pay a monetary obligation, does
31        not evidence an order to pay, and  does  not  contain  an
32        acknowledgment  by  a bank that the bank has received for
33        deposit a sum of money or funds.
34             (66)  "Proposal" means a record authenticated  by  a
 
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 1        secured  party  which  includes  the  terms  on which the
 2        secured party is willing to accept collateral in full  or
 3        partial   satisfaction   of  the  obligation  it  secures
 4        pursuant to Sections 9-620, 9-621, and 9-622.
 5             (67)  "Public-finance transaction" means  a  secured
 6        transaction in connection with which:
 7                  (A)  debt securities are issued;
 8                  (B)  all  or a portion of the securities issued
 9             have an initial  stated  maturity  of  at  least  20
10             years; and
11                  (C)  the   debtor,   obligor,   secured  party,
12             account  debtor  or  other   person   obligated   on
13             collateral,   assignor  or  assignee  of  a  secured
14             obligation, or assignor or assignee  of  a  security
15             interest  is  a  State  or  a governmental unit of a
16             State.
17             (68)  "Pursuant to commitment", with respect  to  an
18        advance  made  or  other  value given by a secured party,
19        means pursuant to the secured party's obligation, whether
20        or not a subsequent event of default or other  event  not
21        within  the  secured  party's control has relieved or may
22        relieve the secured party from its obligation.
23             (69)  "Record", except as used in "for record",  "of
24        record",  "record  or  legal  title", and "record owner",
25        means information that is inscribed on a tangible  medium
26        or  which  is stored in an electronic or other medium and
27        is retrievable in perceivable form.
28             (70)  "Registered     organization"     means     an
29        organization organized solely under the law of  a  single
30        State  or  the United States and as to which the State or
31        the United States must maintain a public  record  showing
32        the organization to have been organized.
33             (71)  "Secondary  obligor"  means  an obligor to the
34        extent that:
 
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 1                  (A)  the obligor's obligation is secondary; or
 2                  (B)  the obligor has a right of  recourse  with
 3             respect  to  an  obligation  secured  by  collateral
 4             against  the debtor, another obligor, or property of
 5             either.
 6             (72)  "Secured party" means:
 7                  (A)  a  person  in  whose  favor   a   security
 8             interest is created or provided for under a security
 9             agreement,  whether  or  not  any  obligation  to be
10             secured is outstanding;
11                  (B)  a person that holds an agricultural lien;
12                  (C)  a consignor;
13                  (D)  a person to which accounts, chattel paper,
14             payment intangibles, or promissory notes  have  been
15             sold;
16                  (E)  a   trustee,   indenture  trustee,  agent,
17             collateral agent, or other representative  in  whose
18             favor  a  security  interest or agricultural lien is
19             created or provided for; or
20                  (F)  a person that holds  a  security  interest
21             arising   under   Section  2-401,  2-505,  2-711(3),
22             2A-508(5), 4-210, or 5-118.
23             (73)  "Security agreement" means an  agreement  that
24        creates or provides for a security interest.
25             (74)  "Send",   in   connection  with  a  record  or
26        notification, means:
27                  (A)  to  deposit  in  the  mail,  deliver   for
28             transmission,  or  transmit by any other usual means
29             of  communication,   with   postage   or   cost   of
30             transmission  provided for, addressed to any address
31             reasonable under the circumstances; or
32                  (B)  to cause the record or notification to  be
33             received  within  the  time  that it would have been
34             received if properly sent under subparagraph (A).
 
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 1             (75)  "Software" means a computer  program  and  any
 2        supporting  information  provided  in  connection  with a
 3        transaction relating to the program. The  term  does  not
 4        include  a  computer  program  that  is  included  in the
 5        definition of goods.
 6             (76)  "State" means a State of  the  United  States,
 7        the  District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States
 8        Virgin Islands, or any territory  or  insular  possession
 9        subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
10             (77)  "Supporting      obligation"      means      a
11        letter-of-credit   right  or  secondary  obligation  that
12        supports  the  payment  or  performance  of  an  account,
13        chattel paper,  a  document,  a  general  intangible,  an
14        instrument, or investment property.
15             (78)  "Tangible  chattel  paper" means chattel paper
16        evidenced  by  a  record   or   records   consisting   of
17        information that is inscribed on a tangible medium.
18             (79)  "Termination  statement" means an amendment of
19        a financing statement which:
20                  (A)  identifies,  by  its  file   number,   the
21             initial financing statement to which it relates; and
22                  (B)  indicates  either that it is a termination
23             statement or that the identified financing statement
24             is no longer effective.
25             (80)  "Transmitting   utility"   means   a    person
26        primarily engaged in the business of:
27                  (A)  operating   a   railroad,  subway,  street
28             railway, or trolley bus;
29                  (B)  transmitting communications  electrically,
30             electromagnetically, or by light;
31                  (C)  transmitting  goods  by pipeline or sewer;
32             or
33                  (D)  transmitting or producing and transmitting
34             electricity, steam, gas, or water.
 
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 1        (b)  Definitions  in  other  Articles.    The   following
 2    definitions in other Articles apply to this Article:
 3        "Applicant". Section 5-102.
 4        "Beneficiary". Section 5-102.
 5        "Broker". Section 8-102.
 6        "Certificated security".  Section 8-102.
 7        "Check".  Section 3-104.
 8        "Clearing corporation".  Section 8-102.
 9        "Contract for sale".  Section 2-106.
10        "Customer".  Section 4-104.
11        "Entitlement holder".  Section 8-102.
12        "Financial asset".  Section 8-102.
13        "Holder in due course".  Section 3-302.
14        "Issuer"   (with   respect  to  a  letter  of  credit  or
15    letter-of-credit right).  Section 5-102.
16        "Issuer" (with respect to a security).  Section 8-201.
17        "Lease".  Section 2A-103.
18        "Lease agreement".  Section 2A-103.
19        "Lease contract".  Section 2A-103.
20        "Leasehold interest".  Section 2A-103.
21        "Lessee".  Section 2A-103.
22        "Lessee in ordinary course of business".  Section 2A-103.
23        "Lessor".  Section 2A-103.
24        "Lessor's residual interest".  Section 2A-103.
25        "Letter of credit".  Section 5-102.
26        "Merchant".  Section 2-104.
27        "Negotiable instrument".  Section 3-104.
28        "Nominated person".  Section 5-102.
29        "Note".  Section 3-104.
30        "Proceeds of a letter of credit".  Section 5-114.
31        "Prove".  Section 3-103.
32        "Sale".  Section 2-106.
33        "Securities account".  Section 8-501.
34        "Securities intermediary".  Section 8-102.
 
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 1        "Security".  Section 8-102.
 2        "Security certificate".  Section 8-102.
 3        "Security entitlement".  Section 8-102.
 4        "Uncertificated security".  Section 8-102.
 5        (c)  Article 1 definitions  and  principles.   Article  1
 6    contains  general  definitions and principles of construction
 7    and interpretation applicable throughout this Article.
 8    (Source: P.A. 91-893, eff. 7-1-01.)

 9        (810 ILCS 5/9-109) (from Ch. 26, par. 9-109)
10        (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 91-893)
11        Sec. 9-109.  Classification of goods;  "consumer  goods";
12    "equipment"; "farm products"; "inventory". Goods are
13        (1)  "consumer  goods" if they are used or bought for use
14    primarily for personal, family or household purposes;
15        (2)  "equipment" if they  are  used  or  bought  for  use
16    primarily  in business (including farming or a profession) or
17    by  a  debtor  who  is  a  non-profit   organization   or   a
18    governmental  subdivision  or  agency or if the goods are not
19    included in the definitions of inventory,  farm  products  or
20    consumer goods;
21        (3)  "farm  products"  if  they are crops or livestock or
22    supplies used or produced in farming operations  or  if  they
23    are  products  of  crops or livestock in their unmanufactured
24    states (such as ginned cotton, wool-clip, maple  syrup,  milk
25    and  eggs)  or if they are aquatic products as defined in the
26    Aquaculture  Development  Act,  and  if  they  are   in   the
27    possession of a debtor engaged in raising, fattening, grazing
28    or  other  farming  or  aquacultural operations. If goods are
29    farm products they are neither equipment nor inventory;
30        (4)  "inventory" if they are held by a person  who  holds
31    them  for sale or lease or to be furnished under contracts of
32    service or if he has so furnished them, or if  they  are  raw
33    materials, work in process or materials used or consumed in a
 
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 1    business.  Inventory  of  a person is not to be classified as
 2    his equipment.
 3    (Source: P.A. 85-856.)

 4        (Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 91-893)
 5        Sec. 9-109.  Scope.
 6        (a)  General  scope  of  Article.   Except  as  otherwise
 7    provided in subsections (c) and (d), this Article applies to:
 8             (1)  a transaction, regardless  of  its  form,  that
 9        creates  a  security  interest  in  personal  property or
10        fixtures by contract;
11             (2)  an agricultural lien;
12             (3)  a sale  of  accounts,  chattel  paper,  payment
13        intangibles, or promissory notes;
14             (4)  a consignment;
15             (5)  a   security  interest  arising  under  Section
16        2-401, 2-505, 2-711(3),  or  2A-508(5),  as  provided  in
17        Section 9-110; and
18             (6)  a security interest arising under Section 4-210
19        or 5-118.
20        (b)  Security   interest   in  secured  obligation.   The
21    application of this Article  to  a  security  interest  in  a
22    secured  obligation  is  not  affected  by  the fact that the
23    obligation is itself secured by a transaction or interest  to
24    which this Article does not apply.
25        (c)  Extent  to  which  Article  does  not  apply.   This
26    Article does not apply to the extent that:
27             (1)  a  statute, regulation, or treaty of the United
28        States preempts this Article;
29             (2)  (Blank);  another   statute   of   this   State
30        expressly  governs the creation, perfection, priority, or
31        enforcement of a security interest created by this  State
32        or a governmental unit of this State;
33             (3)  (Blank);  a statute of another State, a foreign
34        country, or a governmental unit of  another  State  or  a
 
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 1        foreign   country,   other   than   a  statute  generally
 2        applicable  to  security  interests,  expressly   governs
 3        creation,  perfection,  priority,  or  enforcement  of  a
 4        security  interest  created  by  the  State,  country, or
 5        governmental unit;
 6             (4)  the  rights  of  a  transferee  beneficiary  or
 7        nominated person under a letter of credit are independent
 8        and superior under Section 5-114;
 9             (5)  this  Article  is  in  conflict  with   Section
10        205-410 of the Department of Agriculture Law of the Civil
11        Administrative Code of Illinois or the Grain Code; or
12             (6)  this Article is in conflict with Section 18-107
13        of the Public Utilities Act.
14        (d)  Inapplicability  of  Article.  This Article does not
15    apply to:
16             (1)  a landlord's lien, other than  an  agricultural
17        lien;
18             (2)  a  lien, other than an agricultural lien, given
19        by  statute  or  other  rule  of  law  for  services   or
20        materials,  but  Section  9-333  applies  with respect to
21        priority of the lien;
22             (3)  an assignment of a claim for wages, salary,  or
23        other compensation of an employee;
24             (4)  a  sale  of  accounts,  chattel  paper, payment
25        intangibles, or promissory notes as part of a sale of the
26        business out of which they arose;
27             (5)  an  assignment  of  accounts,  chattel   paper,
28        payment intangibles, or promissory notes which is for the
29        purpose of collection only;
30             (6)  an  assignment  of  a  right to payment under a
31        contract to an assignee that is also obligated to perform
32        under the contract;
33             (7)  an assignment  of  a  single  account,  payment
34        intangible,  or promissory note to an assignee in full or
 
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 1        partial satisfaction of a preexisting indebtedness;
 2             (8)  a transfer of  an interest in or an  assignment
 3        of  a  claim  under  a policy of insurance, other than an
 4        assignment  by  or  to  a  health-care  provider   of   a
 5        health-care-insurance   receivable   and  any  subsequent
 6        assignment of the right to payment,  but  Sections  9-315
 7        and  9-322  apply with respect to proceeds and priorities
 8        in proceeds;
 9             (9)  an assignment  of  a  right  represented  by  a
10        judgment,  other  than  a  judgment  taken  on a right to
11        payment that was collateral;
12             (10)  a right of recoupment or set-off, but:
13                  (A)  Section 9-340 applies with respect to  the
14             effectiveness  of  rights  of  recoupment or set-off
15             against deposit accounts; and
16                  (B)  Section  9-404  applies  with  respect  to
17             defenses or claims of an account debtor;
18             (11)  the creation or transfer of an interest in  or
19        lien  on  real  property,  including  a  lease  or  rents
20        thereunder,  except  to the extent that provision is made
21        for:
22                  (A)  liens on real property in  Sections  9-203
23             and 9-308;
24                  (B)  fixtures in Section 9-334;
25                  (C)  fixture  filings in Sections 9-501, 9-502,
26             9-512, 9-516, and 9-519; and
27                  (D)  security agreements covering personal  and
28             real property in Section 9-604;
29             (12)  an  assignment  of  a  claim  arising in tort,
30        other than a commercial tort claim,  but  Sections  9-315
31        and  9-322  apply with respect to proceeds and priorities
32        in proceeds;
33             (13)  a transfer by  a  government  or  governmental
34        subdivision or agency;
 
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 1             (14)  a claim or a right to receive compensation for
 2        injuries or sickness as described in Section 104(a)(1) or
 3        (2)  of  Title  26  of the United States Code, as amended
 4        from time to time; or
 5             (15)  a claim or right to receive benefits  under  a
 6        special  needs  trust as described in Section 1396p(d)(4)
 7        of Title 42 of the United States Code,  as  amended  from
 8        time to time.
 9    (Source: P.A. 91-893, eff. 7-1-01.)

10        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
11    becoming law.

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