{"data":{"id":"us-ia/iowa-code-554.9311","jurisdiction":"us-ia","citation":"Iowa Code § 554.9311","heading":"Perfection of security interests in property subject to certain statutes, regulations, and treaties.","body":"1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, the filing of a financing statement is not necessary or effective to perfect a security interest in property subject to:\na. a statute, regulation, or treaty of the United States whose requirements for a security interest’s obtaining priority over the rights of a lien creditor with respect to the property preempt section 554.9310, subsection 1;\nb. any certificate-of-title statute, including as provided in chapter 321, covering automobiles, trailers, mobile homes, boats, farm tractors, or the like, which provides for a security interest to be indicated on a certificate of title as a condition or result of perfection; or\nc. a statute of another jurisdiction which provides for a security interest to be indicated on a certificate of title as a condition or result of the security interest’s obtaining priority over the rights of a lien creditor with respect to the property.\n2. Compliance with the requirements of a statute, regulation, or treaty described in subsection 1 for obtaining priority over the rights of a lien creditor is equivalent to the filing of a financing statement under this Article. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4 and sections 554.9313 and 554.9316, subsections 4 and 5, for goods covered by a certificate of title, a security interest in property subject to a statute, regulation, or treaty described in subsection 1 may be perfected only by compliance with those requirements, and a security interest so perfected remains perfected notwithstanding a change in the use or transfer of possession of the collateral.\n3. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4 and section 554.9316, subsections 4 and 5, duration and renewal of perfection of a security interest perfected by compliance with the requirements prescribed by a statute, regulation, or treaty described in subsection 1 are governed by the statute, regulation, or treaty. In other respects, the security interest is subject to this Article.\n4. During any period in which collateral subject to a statute specified in subsection 1, paragraph “b” is inventory held for sale or lease by a person or leased by that person as lessor and that person is in the business of selling goods of that kind, this section does not apply to a security interest in that collateral created by that person.","path":["Title XIII - COMMERCE (Ch. 505 - 554I)","Chapter 554 - UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE","Article 9 - SECURED TRANSACTIONS","Part 3 - PERFECTION AND PRIORITY","Subpart B - PERFECTION"],"source_url":"https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/code/2026/554.9311.pdf","current_through":"Iowa Code 2026 edition","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T19:40:15Z","sha256":"362fb5d4179138c4f29a88c8ec0661d4a2a2670f0ef4318b3f5179deb85a44a1","source_id":"us-ia","stale":false,"prev":"us-ia/iowa-code-554.9310","next":"us-ia/iowa-code-554.9312"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}