1. (a) In this section, "notification date" means the earlier of the date on which:
2. (1) A secured party sends to the debtor and any secondary obligor a signed notification of disposition; or

3. (2) The debtor and any secondary obligor waive the right to notification.

   1. (b) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d), a secured party that disposes of collateral under § 57A-9-610 shall send to the persons specified in subsection (c) a reasonable signed notification of disposition.
   2. (c) To comply with subsection (b), the secured party shall send a signed notification of disposition to:
4. (1) The debtor;
5. (2) Any secondary obligor; and

6. (3) If the collateral is other than consumer goods:

   1. (A) Any other person from which the secured party has received, before the notification date, a signed notification of a claim of an interest in the collateral;

   2. (B) Any other secured party or lienholder that, ten days before the notification date, held a security interest in or other lien on the collateral perfected by the filing of a financing statement that:

      1. (i) Identified the collateral;
      2. (ii) Was indexed under the debtor's name as of that date; and
      3. (iii) Was filed in the office in which to file a financing statement against the debtor covering the collateral as of that date; and
   3. (C) Any other secured party that, ten days before the notification date, held a security interest in the collateral perfected by compliance with a statute, regulation, or treaty described in § 57A-9-311(a).
   4. (d) Subsection (b) does not apply if the collateral is perishable or threatens to decline speedily in value or is of a type customarily sold on a recognized market.
   5. (e) A secured party complies with the requirement for notification prescribed by subsection (c)(3)(B) if:
7. (1) Not later than twenty days or earlier than thirty days before the notification date, the secured party requests, in a commercially reasonable manner, information concerning financing statements indexed under the debtor's name in the office indicated in subsection (c)(3)(B); and

8. (2) Before the notification date, the secured party:

   1. (A) Did not receive a response to the request for information; or
   2. (B) Received a response to the request for information and sent a signed notification of disposition to each secured party or other lienholder named in that response whose financing statement covered the collateral.

Source: SL 2000, ch 231 ; SL 2024, ch 198 , § 83.