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(as) "Accounting", except as used in "accounting for", means a record:
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1. Authenticated by a secured party;
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2. Indicating the aggregate unpaid secured obligations as of a date not more
12than 35 days earlier or 35 days later than the date of the record; and
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3. Identifying the components of the obligations in reasonable detail.
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(b) "Agricultural lien" means an interest, other than a security interest, in farm
15products:
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1. Which secures payment or performance of an obligation for:
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a. Goods or services furnished in connection with a debtor's farming operation;
18or
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b. Rent on real property leased by a debtor in connection with its farming
20operation;
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2. Which is created by statute in favor of a person that:
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a. In the ordinary course of its business furnished goods or services to a debtor
23in connection with a debtor's farming operation; or
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b. Leased real property to a debtor in connection with the debtor's farming
25operation; and
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13. Whose effectiveness does not depend on the person's possession of the
2personal property.
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(bcm) "Applicant" means a person at whose request or for whose account a
4letter of credit is issued. The term includes a person who requests an issuer to issue
5a letter of credit on behalf of another if the person making the request undertakes
6an obligation to reimburse the issuer.
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(bg) "As-extracted collateral" means:
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1. Oil, gas, or other minerals that are subject to a security interest that is
9created by a debtor having an interest in the minerals before extraction and which
10attaches to the minerals as extracted; or
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2. Accounts arising out of the sale at the wellhead or minehead of oil, gas, or
12other minerals in which the debtor had an interest before extraction.
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(bm) "Authenticate" means:
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1. To sign; or
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2. To execute or otherwise adopt a symbol, or encrypt or similarly process a
16record in whole or in part, with the present intent of the authenticating person to
17identify the person and adopt or accept a record.
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(bs) "Bank" means an organization that is engaged in the business of banking.
19The term includes savings banks, savings and loan associations, credit unions, and
20trust companies.
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(btm) "Beneficiary" means a person who under the terms of a letter of credit is
22entitled to have its complying presentation honored. The term includes a person to
23whom drawing rights have been transferred under a transferable letter of credit.
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(c) "Cash proceeds" means proceeds that are money, checks, deposit accounts,
25or the like.
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1(cg) "Certificate of title" means a certificate of title with respect to which a
2statute provides for the security interest in question to be indicated on the certificate
3as a condition or result of the security interest's obtaining priority over the rights of
4a lien creditor with respect to the collateral.
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(cm) "Chattel paper" means a record or records that evidence both a monetary
6obligation and a security interest in specific goods, a security interest in specific
7goods and software used in the goods, a security interest in specific goods and license
8of software used in the goods, a lease of specific goods, or a lease of specific goods and
9license of software used in the goods. The term does not include charters or other
10contracts involving the use or hire of a vessel. The term does not include records that
11evidence a right to payment arising out of the use of a credit or charge card or
12information contained on or for use with the card. If a transaction is evidenced by
13records that include an instrument or series of instruments, the group of records
14taken together constitutes chattel paper. In this paragraph, "monetary obligation"
15means a monetary obligation secured by the goods or owned under a lease of the
16goods and includes a monetary obligation with respect to software used in the goods.
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(cs) "Collateral" means the property subject to a security interest or
18agricultural lien. The term includes:
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1. Proceeds to which a security interest attaches;
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2. Accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, and promissory notes that
21have been sold; and
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3. Goods that are the subject of a consignment.
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(d) "Commercial tort claim" means a claim arising in tort with respect to which:
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1. The claimant is an organization; or
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2. The claimant is an individual and the claim:
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1a. Arose in the course of the claimant's business or profession; and
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b. Does not include damages arising out of personal injury to or the death of
3an individual.
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(dg) "Commodity account" means an account maintained by a commodity
5intermediary in which a commodity contract is carried for a commodity customer.
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(dm) "Commodity contract" means a commodity futures contract, an option on
7a commodity futures contract, a commodity option, or another contract if the contract
8or option is:
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1. Traded on or subject to the rules of a board of trade that has been designated
10as a contract market for such a contract pursuant to federal commodities laws; or
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2. Traded on a foreign commodity board of trade, exchange, or market, and is
12carried on the books of a commodity intermediary for a commodity customer.
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(ds) "Commodity customer" means a person for which a commodity
14intermediary carries a commodity contract on its books.
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(e) "Commodity intermediary" means a person that:
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1. Is registered as a futures commission merchant under federal commodities
17law; or
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2. In the ordinary course of its business provides clearance or settlement
19services for a board of trade that has been designated as a contract market pursuant
20to federal commodities law.
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(eg) "Communicate" means:
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1. To send a written or other tangible record;
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2. To transmit a record by any means agreed upon by the persons sending and
24receiving the record; or
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13. In the case of transmission of a record to or by a filing office, to transmit a
2record by any means prescribed by filing-office rule.
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(em) "Consignee" means a merchant to which goods are delivered in a
4consignment.
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(es) "Consignment" means a transaction, regardless of its form, in which a
6person delivers goods to a merchant for the purpose of sale and:
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1. The merchant:
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a. Deals in goods of that kind under a name other than the name of the person
9making delivery;
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b. Is not an auctioneer; and
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c. Is not generally known by its creditors to be substantially engaged in selling
12the goods of others;
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2. With respect to each delivery, the aggregate value of the goods is $1,000 or
14more at the time of delivery;
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3. The goods are not consumer goods immediately before delivery; and
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4. The transaction does not create a security interest that secures an obligation.
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(f) "Consignor" means a person that delivers goods to a consignee in a
18consignment.
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(fg) "Consumer debtor" means a debtor in a consumer transaction.
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(fm) "Consumer goods" means goods that are used or bought for use primarily
21for personal, family, or household purposes.
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(fs) "Consumer-goods transaction" means a consumer transaction in which:
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1. An individual incurs an obligation primarily for personal, family, or
24household purposes; and
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2. A security interest in consumer goods secures the obligation.
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1(g) "Consumer obligor" means an obligor who is an individual and who incurred
2the obligation as part of a transaction entered into primarily for personal, family, or
3household purposes.
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(gg) "Consumer transaction" means a transaction in which an individual incurs
5an obligation primarily for personal, family, or household purposes; a security
6interest secures the obligation; and the collateral is held or acquired primarily for
7personal, family, or household purposes. The term includes consumer-goods
8transactions.
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(gm) "Continuation statement" means an amendment of a financing statement
10which:
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1. Identifies, by its file number, the initial financing statement to which it
12relates; and
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2. Indicates that it is a continuation statement for, or that it is filed to continue
14the effectiveness of, the identified financing statement.
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(gs) "Debtor" means:
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1. A person having an interest, other than a security interest or other lien, in
17the collateral, whether or not the person is an obligor;
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2. A seller of accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, or promissory notes;
19or
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3. A consignee.
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(h) "Deposit account" means a demand, time, savings, passbook, or similar
22account maintained with a bank. The term does not include investment property or
23accounts evidenced by an instrument.
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(hg) "Document" means a document of title or a receipt of the type described
25in s. 407.201 (2).
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1(hm) "Electronic chattel paper" means chattel paper evidenced by a record or
2records consisting of information stored in an electronic medium.
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(hs) "Encumbrance" means a right, other than an ownership interest, in real
4property. The term includes mortgages and other liens on real property.
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(i) "Equipment" means goods other than inventory, farm products, or consumer
6goods.
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(ig) "Farm products" means goods, other than standing timber, with respect to
8which the debtor is engaged in a farming operation and which are:
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1. Crops grown, growing, or to be grown, including:
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a. Crops produced on trees, vines, and bushes; and
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b. Aquatic goods produced in aquacultural operations;
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2. Livestock, born or unborn, including aquatic goods produced in aquacultural
13operations;
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3. Supplies used or produced in a farming operation; or
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4. Products of crops or livestock in their unmanufactured states.
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(im) "Farming operation" means raising, cultivating, propagating, fattening,
17grazing, or any other farming, livestock, or aquacultural operation.
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(is) "File number" means the number assigned to an initial financing statement
19pursuant to s. 409.519 (1).
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(j) "Filing office" means an office designated in s. 409.501 as the place to file a
21financing statement.
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(jg) "Filing-office rule" means a rule promulgated pursuant to s. 409.526.
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(jm) "Financing statement" means a record or records composed of an initial
24financing statement and any filed record relating to the initial financing statement.
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1(js) "Fixture filing" means the filing of a financing statement covering goods
2that are or are to become fixtures and satisfying s. 409.502 (1) and (2). The term
3includes the filing of a financing statement covering goods of a transmitting utility
4which are or are to become fixtures.
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(k) "Fixtures" means goods that have become so related to particular real
6property that an interest in them arises under real property law.
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(kg) "General intangible" means any personal property, including things in
8action, other than accounts, chattel paper, commercial tort claims, deposit accounts,
9documents, goods, instruments, investment property, letter-of-credit rights, letters
10of credit, money, and oil, gas, or other minerals before extraction. The term includes
11payment intangibles and software.