Title 6A
Uniform Commercial Code
Chapter 9
Secured Transactions
Part 3
Perfection and Priority
Subpart 2
Perfection
R.I. Gen. Laws § 6A-9-314
§ 6A-9-314. Perfection by control.
(a) Perfection by control. A security interest in investment property, deposit accounts, letter-of-credit rights, electronic chattel paper or electronic documents may be perfected by control of the collateral under §§ 6A-7-106, 6A-9-104, 6A-9-105, 6A-9-106, or 6A-9-107.
(b) Specified collateral: time of perfection by control; continuation of perfection. A security interest in deposit accounts, electronic chattel paper, letter-of-credit rights or electronic documents is perfected by control under §§ 6A-7-106, 6A-9-104, 6A-9-105, or 6A-9-107 when the secured party obtains control and remains perfected by control only while the secured party retains control.
(c) Investment property: time of perfection by control; continuation of perfection. A security interest in investment property is perfected by control under § 6A-9-106 from the time the secured party obtains control and remains perfected by control until:
(1) The secured party does not have control; and
(2) One of the following occurs:
(i) If the collateral is a certificated security, the debtor has or acquires possession of the security certificate;
(ii) If the collateral is an uncertificated security, the issuer has registered or registers the debtor as the registered owner; or
(iii) If the collateral is a security entitlement, the debtor is or becomes the entitlement holder.
History of Section.
P.L. 2000, ch. 182, § 6; P.L. 2000, ch. 420, § 6; P.L. 2006, ch. 112, § 8; P.L. 2006, ch. 135, § 8.