{"data":{"id":"us-pa/13-pa.c.s.-9611","jurisdiction":"us-pa","citation":"13 Pa.C.S. § 9611","heading":"Notification before disposition of collateral.","body":"(a) Notification date.--As used in this section, the term \"notification date\" means the earlier of the date on which:\n(1) a secured party sends to the debtor and any secondary obligor a signed notification of disposition; or\n(2) the debtor and any secondary obligor waive the right to notification.\n(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.\n(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:\n(1) The debtor.\n(2) Any secondary obligor.\n(3) If the collateral is other than consumer goods, all of the following:\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 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:\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.\n(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).\n(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.\n(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:\n(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).\n(2) 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 or other lienholder named in that response whose financing statement covered the collateral.","path":["Title 13 - COMMERCIAL CODE","CHAPTER 96 DEFAULT","SUBCHAPTER A DEFAULT AND ENFORCEMENT OF SECURITY INTEREST"],"source_url":"https://www.palegis.us/statutes/consolidated/view-statute?txtType=HTM\u0026ttl=13\u0026div=0\u0026chpt=96\u0026sctn=11\u0026subsctn=0","current_through":"2025-12-01 (Statute Update stamp, 13 Pa.C.S.)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T16:31:03Z","sha256":"7d0746210ca4930f3f3f9d88cfb0cc5f8d1a34625e04b86fceee2249d05b2ef5","source_id":"us-pa","stale":false,"prev":"us-pa/13-pa.c.s.-9610","next":"us-pa/13-pa.c.s.-9612"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}