D.C. Code § 28:9-611: Notification before disposition of collateral.

(a)

In this section, “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)

Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d), a secured party that disposes of collateral under § 28:9-610 shall send to the persons specified in subsection (c) a reasonable signed notification of disposition.

(c)

To comply with subsection (b), the secured party shall send a signed notification of disposition to:

(1)

The debtor;

(2)

Any secondary obligor; and

(3)

If the collateral is other than consumer goods:

(A)

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;

(B)

Any other secured party or lienholder that, 10 days before the notification date, held a security interest in or other lien on the collateral perfected by the filing of a financing statement that:

(i)

Identified the collateral;

(ii)

Was indexed under the debtor’s name as of that date; and

(iii)

Was filed in the office in which to file a financing statement against the debtor covering the collateral as of that date; and

(C)

Any other secured party that, 10 days before the notification date, held a security interest in the collateral perfected by compliance with a statute, regulation, or treaty described in § 28:9-311(a).

(d)

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)

A secured party complies with the requirement for notification prescribed by subsection (c)(3)(B) if:

(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)(B); and

(2)

Before the notification date, the secured party:

(A)

Did not receive a response to the request for information; or

(B)

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.