Sec. 42a-9-304. Law governing perfection and priority of security interests in deposit accounts.
Sec. 42a-9-304. Law governing perfection and priority of security interests in
deposit accounts. (a) The local law of a bank's jurisdiction governs perfection, the
effect of perfection or nonperfection and the priority of a security interest in a deposit
account maintained with that bank.
(b) The following rules determine a bank's jurisdiction for purposes of this part:
(1) If an agreement between the bank and the debtor governing the deposit account
expressly provides that a particular jurisdiction is the bank's jurisdiction for purposes
of this part, this article or this title, that jurisdiction is the bank's jurisdiction.
(2) If subdivision (1) does not apply and an agreement between the bank and its
customer governing the deposit account expressly provides that the agreement is governed by the law of a particular jurisdiction, that jurisdiction is the bank's jurisdiction.
(3) If neither subdivision (1) nor subdivision (2) applies and an agreement between
the bank and its customer governing the deposit account expressly provides that the
deposit account is maintained at an office in a particular jurisdiction, that jurisdiction
is the bank's jurisdiction.
(4) If none of the preceding subdivisions applies, the bank's jurisdiction is the jurisdiction in which the office identified in an account statement as the office serving the
customer's account is located.
(5) If none of the preceding subdivisions applies, the bank's jurisdiction is the jurisdiction in which the chief executive office of the bank is located.
(1959, P.A. 133, S. 9-304; P.A. 76-369, S. 19, 20; P.A. 79-435, S. 49; P.A. 96-198, S. 24; P.A. 97-182, S. 60; P.A. 01-132, S. 24.)
History: P.A. 76-369 included security interests "in money" in Subsec. (1) and added reference to Subsecs. (2) and (3)
of Sec. 42a-9-306 and specified in Subsec. (5)(a) that priority between conflicting security interests in goods is subject to
Sec. 42a-9-312(3); P.A. 79-435 specified applicability to instruments "other than certificated securities" in Subsecs. (1),
(4) and (5); P.A. 96-198 amended Subsec. (1) to add provision that a security interest in the rights to proceeds of a written
letter of credit can be perfected only by the secured party's taking possession of the letter of credit; P.A. 97-182 amended
Subsecs. (1), (4) and (5) to make provisions applicable to a security interest in a certificated security by deleting the
provisions that excluded certificated securities from the term "instruments" and amended Subsec. (5) to include the delivery
of a certificated security in Subdiv. (b); P.A. 01-132 replaced former provisions re manner of perfecting a security interest
in instruments, documents, proceeds of a letter of credit and goods covered by documents and temporary perfection without
filing or transfer of possession with provisions re the law governing perfection, the effect of perfection or nonperfection
and the priority of a security interest in a deposit account maintained with a bank.