{"data":{"id":"us-ri/r.i.-gen.-laws-6a-9-611","jurisdiction":"us-ri","citation":"R.I. Gen. Laws § 6A-9-611","heading":"Notification before disposition of collateral.","body":"(a) “Notification date.” In this section, “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 § 6A-9-610 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:\n(1) The debtor;\n(2) Any secondary obligor; and\n(3) 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 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:\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 § 6A-9-311(a).\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:\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); and\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 6A Uniform Commercial Code","Chapter 9 Secured Transactions","Part 6 Default","Subpart 1 Default and Enforcement of Security Interest"],"source_url":"https://webserver.rilegislature.gov/Statutes/TITLE6A/6A-9/6A-6/6A-1/6A-9-611.htm","current_through":"site files published 2025-08-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T18:35:44Z","sha256":"d7c222887313482c1ed4ef13450264ef942fa2f40a251da3872e7424a1a1f3f2","source_id":"us-ri","stale":true,"prev":"us-ri/r.i.-gen.-laws-6a-9-610","next":"us-ri/r.i.-gen.-laws-6a-9-612"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}