{"data":{"id":"us-mt/30-9a-611","jurisdiction":"us-mt","citation":"30-9A-611","heading":"Notification before disposition of collateral.","body":"(1) In this section, \"notification date\" means the earlier of the date on which:\n(a) a secured party sends to the debtor and any secondary obligor a signed notification of disposition; or\n(b) the debtor and any secondary obligor waive the right to notification.\n(2) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (4), a secured party that disposes of collateral under 30-9A-610 shall send to the persons specified in subsection (3) a reasonable signed notification of disposition.\n(3) To comply with subsection (2), the secured party shall send a signed notification of disposition to:\n(a) the debtor;\n(b) any secondary obligor; and\n(c) if the collateral is other than consumer goods:\n(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;\n(ii) any other secured party that, 10 days before the notification date, held a security interest in or agricultural lien on the collateral perfected by the filing of a financing statement that:\n(A) identified the collateral;\n(B) was indexed under the debtor's name as of that date; and\n(C) was filed in the office in which to file a financing statement against the debtor covering the collateral as of that date; and\n(iii) 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 30-9A-311(1).\n(4) Subsection (2) 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.\n(5) A secured party complies with the requirement for notification prescribed in subsection (3)(c)(ii) if:\n(a) 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 (3)(c)(ii); and\n(b) before the notification date, the secured party:\n(i) did not receive a response to the request for information; or\n(ii) received a response to the request for information and sent a signed notification of disposition to each secured party named in that response and whose financing statement covered the collateral.","path":["TITLE 30. TRADE AND COMMERCE","CHAPTER 9A. UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE SECURED TRANSACTIONS","Part 6. Default"],"source_url":"https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0300/chapter_009A/part_0060/section_0110/0300-009A-0060-0110.html","current_through":"Montana Code Annotated 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:51:17Z","sha256":"df71208755f60faf2fec0e9632c970c754fb06d77562f0c0fe31ad819a484055","source_id":"us-mt","stale":false,"prev":"us-mt/30-9a-610","next":"us-mt/30-9a-612"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}