(a) Notification date.-- As used in this section, the term "notification date" means the earlier of the date on which: (1) a secured party sends to the debtor and any secondary obligor a signed notification of disposition; or (2) the debtor and any secondary obligor waive the right to notification. (b) Notification of disposition required.-- Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d), a secured party that disposes of collateral under section 9610 (relating to disposition of collateral after default) shall send to the persons specified in subsection (c) a reasonable signed notification of disposition. (c) Persons to be notified.-- To comply with subsection (b), the secured party shall send a signed notification of disposition to all of the following: (1) The debtor. (2) Any secondary obligor. (3) If the collateral is other than consumer goods, all of the following: (i) Any other person from which the secured party has received, before the notification date, a signed notification of a claim of an interest in the collateral. (ii) Any other secured party or lienholder that, ten days before the notification date, held a security interest in or other lien on the collateral perfected by the filing of a financing statement which: (A) identified the collateral; (B) was indexed under the debtor's name as of that date; and (C) was filed in the office in which to file a financing statement against the debtor covering the collateral as of that date. (iii) Any other secured party that, ten days before the notification date, held a security interest in the collateral perfected by compliance with a statute, regulation or treaty described in section 9311(a) (relating to security interest subject to other law). (d) Subsection (b) inapplicable: perishable collateral; recognized market.-- Subsection (b) does not apply if the collateral is perishable or threatens to decline speedily in value or is of a type customarily sold on a recognized market. (e) Compliance with subsection (c)(3)(ii).-- A secured party complies with the requirement for notification prescribed by subsection (c)(3)(ii) if both of the following paragraphs apply: (1) Not later than 20 days or earlier than 30 days before the notification date, the secured party requests, in a commercially reasonable manner, information concerning financing statements indexed under the debtor's name in the office indicated in subsection (c)(3)(ii). (2) Before the notification date, the secured party: (i) did not receive a response to the request for information; or (ii) received a response to the request for information and sent a signed notification of disposition to each secured party or other lienholder named in that response whose financing statement covered the collateral.
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