California · Commercial Code
COM §17305: (a) Subject to subdivisions (b) and (c), the act adding this division determines the priority of conflicting claims to collateral.
What this law says, in plain English
This statute establishes that the act adding this division determines which conflicting claims to collateral take priority over others.
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(a) Subject to subdivisions (b) and (c), the act adding this division determines the priority of conflicting claims to collateral. (b) Subject to subdivision (c), if the priorities of claims to collateral were established before the effective date of the act adding this division, Division 9 (commencing with Section 9101) as in effect before the effective date of the act adding this division determines priority. (c) On the adjustment date, to the extent the priorities determined by Division 9 (commencing with Section 9101), as amended by the act adding this division, modify the priorities established before the effective date of the act adding this division, the priorities of claims to Division 12 property and electronic money established before the effective date of the act adding this division cease to apply.
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