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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 11. COMMERCIAL CODE · Chapter 9. · Article 9. SECURED TRANSACTIONS · Part 5. FILING

11-9-508. Effectiveness of financing statement if new debtor becomes bound by security agreement.

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

  1. (a)

    Financing statement naming original debtor. Except as otherwise provided in this Code section, a filed financing statement naming an original debtor is effective to perfect a security interest in collateral in which a new debtor has or acquires rights to the extent that the financing statement would have been effective had the original debtor acquired rights in the collateral.#

  2. (b)

    Financing statement becoming seriously misleading. If the difference between the name of the original debtor and that of the new debtor causes a filed financing statement that is effective under subsection (a) of this Code section to be seriously misleading under Code Section 11-9-506:#

    1. (1)

      The financing statement is effective to perfect a security interest in collateral acquired by the new debtor before, and within four months after, the new debtor becomes bound under subsection (d) of Code Section 11-9-203; and#

    2. (2)

      The financing statement is not effective to perfect a security interest in collateral acquired by the new debtor more than four months after the new debtor becomes bound under subsection (d) of Code Section 11-9-203 unless an initial financing statement providing the name of the new debtor is filed before the expiration of that time.#

  3. (c)

    When Code section not applicable. This Code section does not apply to collateral as to which a filed financing statement remains effective against the new debtor under subsection (a) of Code Section 11-9-507.#

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, § 11-9-508, enacted by Ga. L. 2001, p. 362, § 1.

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Text read from t11-(v9)-2022-pdf.pdf, Volume V9, 2022 edition, page 872; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 ad397fccbf21.