1. Subject to any security interest of a lessee (section 554.13508, subsection 5), if a lessor or a supplier has no agent or place of business at the market of rejection, a merchant lessee, after rejection of goods in the merchant lessee’s possession or control, shall follow any reasonable instructions received from the lessor or the supplier with respect to the goods. In the absence of those instructions, a merchant lessee shall make reasonable efforts to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of the goods for the lessor’s or supplier’s account ifthey threaten to decline in value speedily. Instructions are not reasonable if on demand indemnity for expenses is not forthcoming. 2. Ifa merchant lessee (subsection 1) or any other lessee (section 554.13512) disposes of goods, the lessee is entitled to reimbursement either from the lessor or the supplier or out of the proceeds for reasonable expenses of caring for and disposing of the goods and, ifthe expenses include no disposition commission, to such commission as is usual in the trade, or ifthere is none, to a reasonable sum not exceeding ten percent of the gross proceeds. 3. In complying with thissection or section 554.13512, the lessee is held only to goodfaith. Good faith conduct hereunder is neither acceptance or conversion nor the basis of an action for damages. 4. A purchaser who purchases in good faith from a lessee pursuant to this section or section 554.13512 takes thegoods free of any rights of the lessor and the supplier even though the lessee fails to comply with one or more of the requirements of this Article.
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