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Public Act 92-0819

SB1721 Enrolled                                LRB9211690SMdv

    AN ACT concerning liens.

    Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:

    Section  5.   The  Code  of Civil Procedure is amended by
changing Section 9-316 as follows:

    (735 ILCS 5/9-316) (from Ch. 110, par. 9-316)
    Sec. 9-316.  Lien upon crops. Every landlord shall have a
lien upon  the  crops  grown  or  growing  upon  the  demised
premises  for  the  rent thereof, whether the same is payable
wholly or in part in money or specific articles  of  property
or  products  of  the  premises,  or  labor, and also for the
faithful performance of the terms of  the  lease.  Such  lien
shall   continue  for  the  period  of  6  months  after  the
expiration of the term for which the  premises  are  demised,
and  may  be  enforced  by distraint as provided in Part 3 of
Article IX of this Act.
    A good faith purchaser shall, however,  take  such  crops
free  of any landlord's lien unless, within 6 months prior to
the purchase, the landlord provides  written  notice  of  his
lien  to the purchaser by registered or certified mail.  Such
notice shall contain the names and addresses of the  landlord
and tenant, and clearly identify the leased property.
    A  landlord  may  require  that,  prior  to  his tenant's
selling any crops grown on the demised premises,  the  tenant
disclose the name of the person to whom the tenant intends to
sell those crops.  Where such a requirement has been imposed,
the  tenant shall not sell the crops to any person other than
a person  who  has  been  disclosed  to  the  landlord  as  a
potential buyer of the crops.
    A  lien  arising  under  this  Section and duly perfected
under Article 9 of the Uniform  Commercial  Code  shall  have
priority  over any other agricultural lien as defined in, and
over any  security  interest  arising  under,  provisions  of
Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code.
(Source: P.A. 91-893, eff. 7-1-01.)

    Section  10.   The  Uniform Commercial Code is amended by
changing Sections 9-102 and 9-109 as follows:

    (810 ILCS 5/9-102) (from Ch. 26, par. 9-102)
    Sec. 9-102. Definitions and index of definitions.
    (a)  Article 9 definitions.  In this Article:
         (1)  "Accession" means  goods  that  are  physically
    united  with  other  goods  in  such  a  manner  that the
    identity of the original goods is not lost.
         (2)  "Account", except as  used  in  "account  for",
    means  a  right  to  payment  of  a  monetary obligation,
    whether or not earned by performance,  (i)  for  property
    that  has  been  or  is  to  be  sold,  leased, licensed,
    assigned, or otherwise disposed  of,  (ii)  for  services
    rendered  or  to  be  rendered,  (iii)  for  a  policy of
    insurance issued or to be issued, (iv)  for  a  secondary
    obligation  incurred  or  to  be incurred, (v) for energy
    provided or to be provided, (vi) for the use or hire of a
    vessel under a charter or other contract,  (vii)  arising
    out  of the use of a credit or charge card or information
    contained on or for use  with  the  card,  or  (viii)  as
    winnings in a lottery or other game of chance operated or
    sponsored  by  a  State, governmental unit of a State, or
    person licensed or authorized to operate the  game  by  a
    State or governmental unit of a State.  The term includes
    health-care-insurance  receivables.   The  term  does not
    include (i) rights to payment evidenced by chattel  paper
    or  an  instrument,  (ii)  commercial  tort claims, (iii)
    deposit   accounts,   (iv)   investment   property,   (v)
    letter-of-credit rights or letters  of  credit,  or  (vi)
    rights  to  payment  for money or funds advanced or sold,
    other than rights arising out of the use of a  credit  or
    charge  card  or information contained on or for use with
    the card.
         (3)  "Account debtor" means a person obligated on an
    account, chattel paper, or general intangible.  The  term
    does  not  include  persons obligated to pay a negotiable
    instrument, even if the instrument  constitutes  part  of
    chattel paper.
         (4)  "Accounting",  except  as  used  in "accounting
    for", means a record:
              (A)  authenticated by a secured party;
              (B)  indicating the  aggregate  unpaid  secured
         obligations  as  of  a  date  not  more than 35 days
         earlier or 35  days  later  than  the  date  of  the
         record; and
              (C)  identifying    the   components   of   the
         obligations in reasonable detail.
         (5)  "Agricultural lien" means  an  interest,  other
    than a security interest, in farm products:
              (A)  which secures payment or performance of an
         obligation  for:  (i) goods or services furnished in
         connection with a  debtor's  farming  operation;  or
         (ii)  rent  on  real  property leased by a debtor in
         connection with its farming operation;
              (B)  which is created by statute in favor of  a
         person  that:  (i)  in  the  ordinary  course of its
         business furnished goods or services to a debtor  in
         connection  with  a  debtor's  farming operation; or
         (ii) leased real property to a debtor in  connection
         with the debtor's farming operation; and
              (C)  whose effectiveness does not depend on the
         person's possession of the personal property.
         (6)  "As-extracted collateral" means:
              (A)  oil,  gas,  or  other  minerals  that  are
         subject to a security interest that:
                   (i)  is  created  by  a  debtor  having an
              interest in the minerals before extraction; and
                   (ii)  attaches   to   the   minerals    as
              extracted; or
              (B)  accounts  arising  out  of the sale at the
         wellhead or minehead of oil, gas, or other  minerals
         in   which   the   debtor  had  an  interest  before
         extraction.
         (7)  "Authenticate" means:
              (A)  to sign; or
              (B)  to execute or otherwise adopt a symbol, or
         encrypt or similarly process a record in whole or in
         part, with the present intent of the  authenticating
         person  to identify the person and adopt or accept a
         record.
         (8)  "Bank" means an organization that is engaged in
    the business  of  banking.   The  term  includes  savings
    banks,  savings and loan associations, credit unions, and
    trust companies.
         (9)  "Cash proceeds" means proceeds that are  money,
    checks, deposit accounts, or the like.
         (10)  "Certificate  of title" means a certificate of
    title with respect to which a statute  provides  for  the
    security  interest  in  question  to  be indicated on the
    certificate as a condition  or  result  of  the  security
    interest's  obtaining  priority over the rights of a lien
    creditor with respect to the collateral.
         (11)  "Chattel paper" means a record or records that
    evidence  both  a  monetary  obligation  and  a  security
    interest  in  specific  goods,  a  security  interest  in
    specific goods and software used in the goods, a security
    interest in specific goods and license of  software  used
    in  the  goods,  a lease of specific goods, or a lease of
    specified goods and a license of  software  used  in  the
    goods.   In this paragraph, "monetary obligation" means a
    monetary obligation secured by the goods or owed under  a
    lease  of  the  goods  and includes a monetary obligation
    with respect to software used in  the  goods.   The  term
    does   not   include  (i)  charters  or  other  contracts
    involving the use or hire of a  vessel  or  (ii)  records
    that  evidence  a right to payment arising out of the use
    of a credit or charge card or information contained on or
    for use with the card.  If a transaction is evidenced  by
    records   that   include   an  instrument  or  series  of
    instruments,  the  group  of   records   taken   together
    constitutes chattel paper.
         (12)  "Collateral"  means  the property subject to a
    security  interest  or  agricultural  lien.    The   term
    includes:
              (A)  proceeds  to  which  a  security  interest
         attaches;
              (B)  accounts,     chattel    paper,    payment
         intangibles, and promissory  notes  that  have  been
         sold; and
              (C)  goods   that   are   the   subject   of  a
         consignment.
         (13)  "Commercial tort claim" means a claim  arising
    in tort with respect to which:
              (A)  the claimant is an organization; or
              (B)  the  claimant  is  an  individual  and the
         claim:
                   (i)  arose in the course of the claimant's
              business or profession; and
                   (ii)  does not include damages arising out
              of personal  injury  to  or  the  death  of  an
              individual.
         (14)  "Commodity    account"    means   an   account
    maintained  by  a  commodity  intermediary  in  which   a
    commodity contract is carried for a commodity customer.
         (15)  "Commodity contract" means a commodity futures
    contract,  an  option  on a commodity futures contract, a
    commodity option, or another contract if the contract  or
    option is:
              (A)  traded  on  or  subject  to the rules of a
         board  of  trade  that  has  been  designated  as  a
         contract market for  such  a  contract  pursuant  to
         federal commodities laws; or
              (B)  traded  on  a  foreign  commodity board of
         trade, exchange, or market, and is  carried  on  the
         books  of  a  commodity intermediary for a commodity
         customer.
         (16)  "Commodity customer" means a person for  which
    a  commodity intermediary carries a commodity contract on
    its books.
         (17)  "Commodity intermediary" means a person that:
              (A)  is  registered  as  a  futures  commission
         merchant under federal commodities law; or
              (B)  in the ordinary  course  of  its  business
         provides  clearance  or  settlement  services  for a
         board  of  trade  that  has  been  designated  as  a
         contract market pursuant to federal commodities law.
         (18)  "Communicate" means:
              (A)  to  send  a  written  or  other   tangible
         record;
              (B)  to  transmit  a record by any means agreed
         upon  by  the  persons  sending  and  receiving  the
         record; or
              (C)  in the case of transmission of a record to
         or by a filing office, to transmit a record  by  any
         means prescribed by filing-office rule.
         (19)  "Consignee"  means  a  merchant to which goods
    are delivered in a consignment.
         (20)  "Consignment" means a transaction,  regardless
    of  its  form,  in  which  a  person  delivers goods to a
    merchant for the purpose of sale and:
              (A)  the merchant:
                   (i)  deals in goods of that kind  under  a
              name  other  than the name of the person making
              delivery;
                   (ii)  is not an auctioneer; and
                   (iii)  is  not  generally  known  by   its
              creditors   to   be  substantially  engaged  in
              selling the goods of others;
              (B)  with  respect  to   each   delivery,   the
         aggregate  value  of  the goods is $1,000 or more at
         the time of delivery;
              (C)  the   goods   are   not   consumer   goods
         immediately before delivery; and
              (D)  the transaction does not create a security
         interest that secures an obligation.
         (21)  "Consignor" means a person that delivers goods
    to a consignee in a consignment.
         (22)  "Consumer debtor" means a debtor in a consumer
    transaction.
         (23)  "Consumer goods" means goods that are used  or
    bought   for  use  primarily  for  personal,  family,  or
    household purposes.
         (24)  "Consumer-goods transaction" means a  consumer
    transaction in which:
              (A)  an   individual   incurs   an   obligation
         primarily   for   personal,   family,  or  household
         purposes; and
              (B)  a  security  interest  in  consumer  goods
         secures the obligation.
         (25)  "Consumer obligor" means an obligor who is  an
    individual  and  who incurred the obligation as part of a
    transaction entered into primarily for personal,  family,
    or household purposes.
         (26)  "Consumer  transaction" means a transaction in
    which (i) an individual incurs  an  obligation  primarily
    for  personal,  family,  or  household  purposes,  (ii) a
    security interest secures the obligation, and  (iii)  the
    collateral  is  held  or acquired primarily for personal,
    family,  or  household  purposes.   The   term   includes
    consumer-goods transactions.
         (27)  "Continuation statement" means an amendment of
    a financing statement which:
              (A)  identifies,   by   its  file  number,  the
         initial financing statement to which it relates; and
              (B)  indicates  that  it  is   a   continuation
         statement  for,  or that it is filed to continue the
         effectiveness   of,   the    identified    financing
         statement.
         (28)  "Debtor" means:
              (A)  a  person having an interest, other than a
         security interest or other lien, in the  collateral,
         whether or not the person is an obligor;
              (B)  a   seller  of  accounts,  chattel  paper,
         payment intangibles, or promissory notes; or
              (C)  a consignee.
         (29)  "Deposit  account"  means  a   demand,   time,
    savings, passbook, nonnegotiable certificates of deposit,
    uncertificated  certificates of deposit, nontransferrable
    certificates of deposit, or  similar  account  maintained
    with  a  bank.   The  term  does  not  include investment
    property or accounts evidenced by an instrument.
         (30)  "Document" means a  document  of  title  or  a
    receipt of the type described in Section 7-201(2).
         (31)  "Electronic chattel paper" means chattel paper
    evidenced   by   a   record   or  records  consisting  of
    information stored in an electronic medium.
         (32)  "Encumbrance" means a  right,  other  than  an
    ownership  interest, in real property.  The term includes
    mortgages and other liens on real property.
         (33)  "Equipment" means goods other than  inventory,
    farm products, or consumer goods.
         (34)  "Farm   products"   means  goods,  other  than
    standing timber, with respect  to  which  the  debtor  is
    engaged in a farming operation and which are:
              (A)  crops  grown,  growing,  or  to  be grown,
         including:
                   (i)  crops produced on trees,  vines,  and
              bushes; and
                   (ii)  aquatic     goods     produced    in
              aquacultural operations;
              (B)  livestock,  born  or   unborn,   including
         aquatic goods produced in aquacultural operations;
              (C)  supplies  used  or  produced  in a farming
         operation; or
              (D)  products of crops or  livestock  in  their
         unmanufactured states.
         (35)  "Farming     operation"     means     raising,
    cultivating,  propagating,  fattening,  grazing,  or  any
    other farming, livestock, or aquacultural operation.
         (36)  "File  number" means the number assigned to an
    initial financing statement pursuant to Section 9-519(a).
         (37)  "Filing office" means an office designated  in
    Section 9-501 as the place to file a financing statement.
         (38)  "Filing-office  rule"  means  a  rule  adopted
    pursuant to Section 9-526.
         (39)  "Financing   statement"   means  a  record  or
    records composed of an initial  financing  statement  and
    any  filed  record  relating  to  the  initial  financing
    statement.
         (40)  "Fixture   filing"   means  the  filing  of  a
    financing statement covering goods that  are  or  are  to
    become  fixtures and satisfying Section 9-502(a) and (b).
    The term includes the filing  of  a  financing  statement
    covering goods of a transmitting utility which are or are
    to become fixtures.
         (41)  "Fixtures"  means  goods  that  have become so
    related to particular real property that an  interest  in
    them arises under real property law.
         (42)  "General   intangible"   means   any  personal
    property,  including  things  in   action,   other   than
    accounts,  chattel paper, commercial tort claims, deposit
    accounts,  documents,  goods,   instruments,   investment
    property,  letter-of-credit  rights,  letters  of credit,
    money, and oil, gas, or other minerals before extraction.
    The term includes payment intangibles and software.
         (43)  "Good faith" means honesty  in  fact  and  the
    observance  of  reasonable  commercial  standards of fair
    dealing.
         (44)  "Goods" means all things that are movable when
    a security interest  attaches.   The  term  includes  (i)
    fixtures,  (ii)  standing  timber  that  is to be cut and
    removed under a conveyance or contract  for  sale,  (iii)
    the  unborn  young of animals, (iv) crops grown, growing,
    or to be grown, even if the crops are produced on  trees,
    vines,  or  bushes, and (v) manufactured homes.  The term
    also includes a computer program embedded  in  goods  and
    any  supporting information provided in connection with a
    transaction relating to the program if (i) the program is
    associated with the  goods  in  such  a  manner  that  it
    customarily  is  considered part of the goods, or (ii) by
    becoming the owner of the  goods,  a  person  acquires  a
    right  to  use  the program in connection with the goods.
    The term does not include a computer program embedded  in
    goods  that  consist  solely  of  the medium in which the
    program is embedded.  The  term  also  does  not  include
    accounts,  chattel paper, commercial tort claims, deposit
    accounts, documents,  general  intangibles,  instruments,
    investment  property, letter-of-credit rights, letters of
    credit, money, or oil,  gas,  or  other  minerals  before
    extraction.
         (45)  "Governmental   unit"   means  a  subdivision,
    agency,  department,  county,  parish,  municipality,  or
    other unit of the government  of  the  United  States,  a
    State,  or  a  foreign  country.   The  term  includes an
    organization having a separate corporate existence if the
    organization is eligible to issue debt on which  interest
    is  exempt  from  income  taxation  under the laws of the
    United States.
         (46)  "Health-care-insurance  receivable"  means  an
    interest in or claim under a policy of insurance which is
    a  right  to  payment  of  a  monetary   obligation   for
    health-care goods or services provided.
         (47)  "Instrument"  means a negotiable instrument or
    any other writing that evidences a right to  the  payment
    of  a  monetary  obligation,  is  not  itself  a security
    agreement or lease, and is of a  type  that  in  ordinary
    course  of  business  is transferred by delivery with any
    necessary indorsement or assignment.  The term  does  not
    include  (i) investment property, (ii) letters of credit,
    (iii)  nonnegotiable  certificates   of   deposit,   (iv)
    uncertificated     certificates     of    deposit,    (v)
    nontransferrable  certificates  of   deposit,   or   (vi)
    writings  that evidence a right to payment arising out of
    the use  of  a  credit  or  charge  card  or  information
    contained on or for use with the card.
         (48)  "Inventory"   means  goods,  other  than  farm
    products, which:
              (A)  are leased by a person as lessor;
              (B)  are held by a person for sale or lease  or
         to be furnished under a contract of service;
              (C)  are furnished by a person under a contract
         of service; or
              (D)  consist of raw materials, work in process,
         or materials used or consumed in a business.
         (49)  "Investment   property"   means   a  security,
    whether   certificated   or   uncertificated,    security
    entitlement,  securities  account, commodity contract, or
    commodity account.
         (50)  "Jurisdiction of organization",  with  respect
    to  a  registered  organization,  means  the jurisdiction
    under whose law the organization is organized.
         (51)  "Letter-of-credit  right"  means  a  right  to
    payment or performance under a letter of credit,  whether
    or  not  the  beneficiary  has demanded or is at the time
    entitled to demand payment or performance.  The term does
    not include the right of a beneficiary to demand  payment
    or performance under a letter of credit.
         (52)  "Lien creditor" means:
              (A)  a creditor that has acquired a lien on the
         property involved by attachment, levy, or the like;
              (B)  an  assignee for benefit of creditors from
         the time of assignment;
              (C)  a trustee in bankruptcy from the  date  of
         the filing of the petition; or
              (D)  a  receiver  in  equity  from  the time of
         appointment.
         (53)  "Manufactured   home"   means   a   structure,
    transportable in one or  more  sections,  which,  in  the
    traveling mode, is eight body feet or more in width or 40
    body feet or more in length, or, when erected on site, is
    320  or  more  square  feet,  and  which  is  built  on a
    permanent chassis and designed to be used as  a  dwelling
    with  or without a permanent foundation when connected to
    the  required  utilities,  and  includes  the   plumbing,
    heating,   air-conditioning,   and   electrical   systems
    contained  therein.  The term includes any structure that
    meets all of the requirements of  this  paragraph  except
    the  size  requirements  and  with  respect  to which the
    manufacturer voluntarily files a  certification  required
    by  the  United  States  Secretary  of  Housing and Urban
    Development and complies with the  standards  established
    under Title 42 of the United States Code.
         (54)  "Manufactured-home    transaction"   means   a
    secured transaction:
              (A)  that  creates  a  purchase-money  security
         interest  in  a  manufactured  home,  other  than  a
         manufactured home held as inventory; or
              (B)  in which a manufactured home, other than a
         manufactured home held as inventory, is the  primary
         collateral.
         (55)  "Mortgage" means a consensual interest in real
    property,  including  fixtures,  which secures payment or
    performance of an obligation.
         (56)  "New debtor" means a person that becomes bound
    as debtor under Section 9-203(d) by a security  agreement
    previously entered into by another person.
         (57)  "New  value"  means  (i)  money,  (ii) money's
    worth in property, services,  or  new  credit,  or  (iii)
    release  by  a  transferee  of  an  interest  in property
    previously transferred to the transferee.  The term  does
    not   include   an  obligation  substituted  for  another
    obligation.
         (58)  "Noncash proceeds" means proceeds  other  than
    cash proceeds.
         (59)  "Obligor" means a person that, with respect to
    an  obligation  secured  by  a security interest in or an
    agricultural lien on the collateral, (i) owes payment  or
    other  performance  of  the obligation, (ii) has provided
    property other than the collateral to secure  payment  or
    other   performance   of  the  obligation,  or  (iii)  is
    otherwise accountable in whole or in part for payment  or
    other  performance  of the obligation.  The term does not
    include issuers or nominated persons under  a  letter  of
    credit.
         (60)  "Original  debtor",  except as used in Section
    9-310(c), means a person that, as debtor, entered into  a
    security agreement to which a new debtor has become bound
    under Section 9-203(d).
         (61)  "Payment    intangible"    means   a   general
    intangible under which  the  account  debtor's  principal
    obligation is a monetary obligation.
         (62)  "Person   related  to",  with  respect  to  an
    individual, means:
              (A)  the spouse of the individual;
              (B)  a  brother,  brother-in-law,  sister,   or
         sister-in-law of the individual;
              (C)  an  ancestor  or  lineal descendant of the
         individual or the individual's spouse; or
              (D)  any other relative, by blood or  marriage,
         of  the  individual  or  the individual's spouse who
         shares the same home with the individual.
         (63)  "Person  related  to",  with  respect  to   an
    organization, means:
              (A)  a    person    directly    or   indirectly
         controlling, controlled by, or under common  control
         with the organization;
              (B)  an  officer  or  director  of, or a person
         performing similar functions with  respect  to,  the
         organization;
              (C)  an  officer  or  director  of, or a person
         performing similar  functions  with  respect  to,  a
         person described in subparagraph (A);
              (D)  the  spouse  of an individual described in
         subparagraph (A), (B), or (C); or
              (E)  an individual who is related by  blood  or
         marriage  to an individual described in subparagraph
         (A), (B), (C), or (D) and shares the same home  with
         the individual.
         (64)  "Proceeds",   except   as   used   in  Section
    9-609(b), means the following property:
              (A)  whatever is acquired upon the sale, lease,
         license,   exchange,   or   other   disposition   of
         collateral;
              (B)  whatever is collected on,  or  distributed
         on account of, collateral;
              (C)  rights arising out of collateral;
              (D)  to  the extent of the value of collateral,
         claims arising out of the  loss,  nonconformity,  or
         interference   with   the   use   of,   defects   or
         infringement   of  rights  in,  or  damage  to,  the
         collateral; or
              (E)  to the extent of the value  of  collateral
         and  to  the  extent  payable  to  the debtor or the
         secured party, insurance payable by  reason  of  the
         loss or nonconformity of, defects or infringement of
         rights in, or damage to, the collateral.
         (65)  "Promissory  note"  means  an  instrument that
    evidences a promise to pay a  monetary  obligation,  does
    not  evidence  an  order  to pay, and does not contain an
    acknowledgment by a bank that the bank has  received  for
    deposit a sum of money or funds.
         (66)  "Proposal"  means  a record authenticated by a
    secured party which  includes  the  terms  on  which  the
    secured  party is willing to accept collateral in full or
    partial  satisfaction  of  the  obligation   it   secures
    pursuant to Sections 9-620, 9-621, and 9-622.
         (67)  "Public-finance  transaction"  means a secured
    transaction in connection with which:
              (A)  debt securities are issued;
              (B)  all or a portion of the securities  issued
         have  an  initial  stated  maturity  of  at least 20
         years; and
              (C)  the  debtor,   obligor,   secured   party,
         account   debtor   or   other  person  obligated  on
         collateral,  assignor  or  assignee  of  a   secured
         obligation,  or  assignor  or assignee of a security
         interest is a State or  a  governmental  unit  of  a
         State.
         (68)  "Pursuant  to  commitment", with respect to an
    advance made or other value given  by  a  secured  party,
    means pursuant to the secured party's obligation, whether
    or  not  a subsequent event of default or other event not
    within the secured party's control has  relieved  or  may
    relieve the secured party from its obligation.
         (69)  "Record",  except as used in "for record", "of
    record", "record or legal  title",  and  "record  owner",
    means  information that is inscribed on a tangible medium
    or which is stored in an electronic or other  medium  and
    is retrievable in perceivable form.
         (70)  "Registered     organization"     means     an
    organization  organized  solely under the law of a single
    State or the United States and as to which the  State  or
    the  United  States must maintain a public record showing
    the organization to have been organized.
         (71)  "Secondary obligor" means an  obligor  to  the
    extent that:
              (A)  the obligor's obligation is secondary; or
              (B)  the  obligor  has a right of recourse with
         respect  to  an  obligation  secured  by  collateral
         against the debtor, another obligor, or property  of
         either.
         (72)  "Secured party" means:
              (A)  a   person   in  whose  favor  a  security
         interest is created or provided for under a security
         agreement, whether  or  not  any  obligation  to  be
         secured is outstanding;
              (B)  a person that holds an agricultural lien;
              (C)  a consignor;
              (D)  a person to which accounts, chattel paper,
         payment  intangibles,  or promissory notes have been
         sold;
              (E)  a  trustee,  indenture   trustee,   agent,
         collateral  agent,  or other representative in whose
         favor a security interest or  agricultural  lien  is
         created or provided for; or
              (F)  a  person  that  holds a security interest
         arising  under  Section  2-401,   2-505,   2-711(3),
         2A-508(5), 4-210, or 5-118.
         (73)  "Security  agreement"  means an agreement that
    creates or provides for a security interest.
         (74)  "Send",  in  connection  with  a   record   or
    notification, means:
              (A)  to   deposit  in  the  mail,  deliver  for
         transmission, or transmit by any other  usual  means
         of   communication,   with   postage   or   cost  of
         transmission provided for, addressed to any  address
         reasonable under the circumstances; or
              (B)  to  cause the record or notification to be
         received within the time that  it  would  have  been
         received if properly sent under subparagraph (A).
         (75)  "Software"  means  a  computer program and any
    supporting information  provided  in  connection  with  a
    transaction  relating  to  the program. The term does not
    include a  computer  program  that  is  included  in  the
    definition of goods.
         (76)  "State"  means  a  State of the United States,
    the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United  States
    Virgin  Islands,  or  any territory or insular possession
    subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
         (77)  "Supporting      obligation"      means      a
    letter-of-credit  right  or  secondary  obligation   that
    supports  the  payment  or  performance  of  an  account,
    chattel  paper,  a  document,  a  general  intangible, an
    instrument, or investment property.
         (78)  "Tangible chattel paper" means  chattel  paper
    evidenced   by   a   record   or  records  consisting  of
    information that is inscribed on a tangible medium.
         (79)  "Termination statement" means an amendment  of
    a financing statement which:
              (A)  identifies,   by   its  file  number,  the
         initial financing statement to which it relates; and
              (B)  indicates either that it is a  termination
         statement or that the identified financing statement
         is no longer effective.
         (80)  "Transmitting    utility"   means   a   person
    primarily engaged in the business of:
              (A)  operating  a  railroad,   subway,   street
         railway, or trolley bus;
              (B)  transmitting  communications electrically,
         electromagnetically, or by light;
              (C)  transmitting goods by pipeline  or  sewer;
         or
              (D)  transmitting or producing and transmitting
         electricity, steam, gas, or water.
    (b)  Definitions   in   other  Articles.   The  following
definitions in other Articles apply to this Article:
    "Applicant". Section 5-102.
    "Beneficiary". Section 5-102.
    "Broker". Section 8-102.
    "Certificated security".  Section 8-102.
    "Check".  Section 3-104.
    "Clearing corporation".  Section 8-102.
    "Contract for sale".  Section 2-106.
    "Customer".  Section 4-104.
    "Entitlement holder".  Section 8-102.
    "Financial asset".  Section 8-102.
    "Holder in due course".  Section 3-302.
    "Issuer"  (with  respect  to  a  letter  of   credit   or
letter-of-credit right).  Section 5-102.
    "Issuer" (with respect to a security).  Section 8-201.
    "Lease".  Section 2A-103.
    "Lease agreement".  Section 2A-103.
    "Lease contract".  Section 2A-103.
    "Leasehold interest".  Section 2A-103.
    "Lessee".  Section 2A-103.
    "Lessee in ordinary course of business".  Section 2A-103.
    "Lessor".  Section 2A-103.
    "Lessor's residual interest".  Section 2A-103.
    "Letter of credit".  Section 5-102.
    "Merchant".  Section 2-104.
    "Negotiable instrument".  Section 3-104.
    "Nominated person".  Section 5-102.
    "Note".  Section 3-104.
    "Proceeds of a letter of credit".  Section 5-114.
    "Prove".  Section 3-103.
    "Sale".  Section 2-106.
    "Securities account".  Section 8-501.
    "Securities intermediary".  Section 8-102.
    "Security".  Section 8-102.
    "Security certificate".  Section 8-102.
    "Security entitlement".  Section 8-102.
    "Uncertificated security".  Section 8-102.
    (c)  Article  1  definitions  and  principles.  Article 1
contains general definitions and principles  of  construction
and interpretation applicable throughout this Article.
(Source: P.A. 91-893, eff. 7-1-01.)

    (810 ILCS 5/9-109) (from Ch. 26, par. 9-109)
    Sec. 9-109.  Scope.
    (a)  General  scope  of  Article.   Except  as  otherwise
provided in subsections (c) and (d), this Article applies to:
         (1)  a  transaction,  regardless  of  its form, that
    creates a  security  interest  in  personal  property  or
    fixtures by contract;
         (2)  an agricultural lien;
         (3)  a  sale  of  accounts,  chattel  paper, payment
    intangibles, or promissory notes;
         (4)  a consignment;
         (5)  a  security  interest  arising  under   Section
    2-401,  2-505,  2-711(3),  or  2A-508(5),  as provided in
    Section 9-110; and
         (6)  a security interest arising under Section 4-210
    or 5-118.
    (b)  Security  interest  in  secured   obligation.    The
application  of  this  Article  to  a  security interest in a
secured obligation is not  affected  by  the  fact  that  the
obligation  is itself secured by a transaction or interest to
which this Article does not apply.
    (c)  Extent  to  which  Article  does  not  apply.   This
Article does not apply to the extent that:
         (1)  a statute, regulation, or treaty of the  United
    States preempts this Article;
         (2)  another statute of this State expressly governs
    the  creation,  perfection, priority, or enforcement of a
    security interest created by this State or a governmental
    unit of this State;
         (3)  a statute of another State, a foreign  country,
    or  a  governmental  unit  of  another State or a foreign
    country, other than a  statute  generally  applicable  to
    security    interests,    expressly   governs   creation,
    perfection,  priority,  or  enforcement  of  a   security
    interest  created  by the State, country, or governmental
    unit;
         (4)  the  rights  of  a  transferee  beneficiary  or
    nominated person under a letter of credit are independent
    and superior under Section 5-114;
         (5)  this  Article  is  in  conflict  with   Section
    205-410 of the Department of Agriculture Law of the Civil
    Administrative Code of Illinois or the Grain Code; or
         (6)  this Article is in conflict with Section 18-107
    of the Public Utilities Act.
    (d)  Inapplicability  of  Article.  This Article does not
apply to:
         (1)  a landlord's lien, other than  an  agricultural
    lien;
         (2)  a  lien, other than an agricultural lien, given
    by  statute  or  other  rule  of  law  for  services   or
    materials,  but  Section  9-333  applies  with respect to
    priority of the lien;
         (3)  an assignment of a claim for wages, salary,  or
    other compensation of an employee;
         (4)  a  sale  of  accounts,  chattel  paper, payment
    intangibles, or promissory notes as part of a sale of the
    business out of which they arose;
         (5)  an  assignment  of  accounts,  chattel   paper,
    payment intangibles, or promissory notes which is for the
    purpose of collection only;
         (6)  an  assignment  of  a  right to payment under a
    contract to an assignee that is also obligated to perform
    under the contract;
         (7)  an assignment  of  a  single  account,  payment
    intangible,  or promissory note to an assignee in full or
    partial satisfaction of a preexisting indebtedness;
         (8)  a transfer of  an interest in or an  assignment
    of  a  claim  under  a policy of insurance, other than an
    assignment  by  or  to  a  health-care  provider   of   a
    health-care-insurance   receivable   and  any  subsequent
    assignment of the right to payment,  but  Sections  9-315
    and  9-322  apply with respect to proceeds and priorities
    in proceeds;
         (9)  an assignment  of  a  right  represented  by  a
    judgment,  other  than  a  judgment  taken  on a right to
    payment that was collateral;
         (10)  a right of recoupment or set-off, but:
              (A)  Section 9-340 applies with respect to  the
         effectiveness  of  rights  of  recoupment or set-off
         against deposit accounts; and
              (B)  Section  9-404  applies  with  respect  to
         defenses or claims of an account debtor;
         (11)  the creation or transfer of an interest in  or
    lien  on  real  property,  including  a  lease  or  rents
    thereunder,  except  to the extent that provision is made
    for:
              (A)  liens on real property in  Sections  9-203
         and 9-308;
              (B)  fixtures in Section 9-334;
              (C)  fixture  filings in Sections 9-501, 9-502,
         9-512, 9-516, and 9-519; and
              (D)  security agreements covering personal  and
         real property in Section 9-604;
         (12)  an  assignment  of  a  claim  arising in tort,
    other than a commercial tort claim,  but  Sections  9-315
    and  9-322  apply with respect to proceeds and priorities
    in proceeds;
         (13)  a transfer by  a  government  or  governmental
    subdivision or agency;
         (14)  a claim or a right to receive compensation for
    injuries or sickness as described in Section 104(a)(1) or
    (2)  of  Title  26  of the United States Code, as amended
    from time to time; or
         (15)  a claim or right to receive benefits  under  a
    special  needs  trust as described in Section 1396p(d)(4)
    of Title 42 of the United States Code,  as  amended  from
    time to time.
(Source: P.A. 91-893, eff. 7-1-01.)

    Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.
    Passed in the General Assembly May 30, 2002.
    Approved August 21, 2002.
    Effective August 21, 2002.

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