Sections
17 entriesSection 697.510Establishes a personal-property judgment lien by filing notice with the Secretary of State for money judgments first entered after June 30, 1983;…Section 697.520Allows a judgment creditor to create a personal-property judgment lien under this article either instead of, or in addition to, a lien…Section 697.530Defines property reached by a personal-property judgment lien to include specified receivables, equipment, farm products, inventory, documents, and proceeds. It excludes registered…Section 697.540Sets a personal-property judgment lien at the amount required to satisfy the money judgment unless statute provides otherwise. For the specified installment…Section 697.550Requires a personal-property judgment-lien notice to be executed under oath by the creditor’s attorney, or by the creditor if unrepresented, and to…Section 697.560Requires a judgment creditor to serve the judgment debtor personally or by mail with a copy of the notice of personal-property judgment…Section 697.570Requires the Secretary of State, upon presentation of a personal-property judgment-lien notice and the filing fee, to file, mark, and index it…Section 697.580Requires the Secretary of State, on request, to issue a certificate stating whether judgment-lien notices on a named person’s personal property are…Section 697.590Sets priority between personal-property judgment liens and security or agricultural liens generally by first filing or perfection. A purchase-money security interest prevails…Section 697.600Sets priority among judgment liens on personal property by favoring the judgment lien created earlier over any later-created judgment lien. If multiple…Section 697.610Establishes that a personal-property judgment lien ordinarily continues despite sale, exchange, or other disposition, subject to the two specified Commercial Code exceptions.…Section 697.620Defines cash proceeds as money, checks, deposit accounts, and similar items, and proceeds as identifiable cash proceeds from disposition of liened personal…Section 697.640Allows the creditor, debtor, property owner, or person with a security interest or lien to file the specified satisfaction acknowledgment or clerk…Section 697.650Allows a judgment creditor, by signed writing, to release a personal-property judgment lien as to all or selected debtors or property, or…Section 697.660Requires a judgment creditor to file a release within 15 days after an erroneously identified personal-property owner or lienholder demands relief and…Section 697.670Allows the Secretary of State, when doing so would achieve cost savings, to prescribe forms for personal-property judgment-lien notices and continuation, release,…Section 697.680Allows a judgment creditor ordered to return levied property or garnished wages after releasing a personal-property lien in reasonable belief of satisfaction…