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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 11. COMMERCIAL CODE · Chapter 9. · Article 9. SECURED TRANSACTIONS · Part 3. PERFECTION AND PRIORITY

11-9-306. Law governing perfection and priority of security interests in letter of credit rights.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (a)

    Governing law; issuer’s or nominated person’s jurisdiction. Subject to subsection (c) of this Code section, the local law of the issuer’s jurisdiction or a nominated person’s jurisdiction governs perfection, the effect of perfection or nonperfection, and the priority of a security interest in a letter of credit right if the issuer’s jurisdiction or nominated person’s jurisdiction is a state.#

  2. (b)

    Issuer’s or nominated person’s jurisdiction. For purposes of this part, an issuer’s jurisdiction or nominated person’s jurisdiction is the jurisdiction whose law governs the liability of the issuer or nominated person with respect to the letter of credit right as provided in Code Section 11-5-116.#

  3. (c)

    When Code section not applicable. This Code section does not apply to a security interest that is perfected only under subsection (d) of Code Section 11-9-308.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 11-9-306, enacted by Ga. L. 2001, p. 362, § 1.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t11-(v9)-2022-pdf.pdf, Volume V9, 2022 edition, pages 779 to 780; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 ad397fccbf21.