{"data":{"id":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-47-9-310","jurisdiction":"us-tn","citation":"Tenn. Code Ann. § 47-9-310","heading":"When filing required to perfect security interest or agricultural lien — Security interests and agricultural liens to which filing provisions do not apply.","body":"(a) General rule: perfection by filing. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) and § 47-9-312(b), a financing statement must be filed to perfect all security interests and agricultural liens.\n(b) Exceptions: filing not necessary. The filing of a financing statement is not necessary to perfect a security interest:\n(1) that is perfected under § 47-9-308(d), (e), (f), or (g);\n(2) that is perfected under § 47-9-309 when it attaches;\n(3) in property subject to a statute, regulation, or treaty described in § 47-9-311(a);\n(4) in goods in possession of a bailee which is perfected under § 47-9-312(d)(1) or (2);\n(5) in certificated securities, documents, goods, or instruments which is perfected without filing, control or possession under § 47-9-312(e), (f), or (g);\n(6) in collateral in the secured party's possession under § 47-9-313;\n(7) in a certificated security which is perfected by delivery of the security certificate to the secured party under § 47-9-313;\n(8) in deposit accounts, electronic chattel paper, electronic documents, investment property or letter-of-credit rights which is perfected by control under § 47-9-314;\n(9) in proceeds which is perfected under § 47-9-315; or\n(10) that is perfected under § 47-9-316.\n(c) Assignment of perfected security interest. If a secured party assigns a perfected security interest or agricultural lien, a filing under this chapter is not required to continue the perfected status of the security interest against creditors of and transferees from the original debtor.","path":["Title 47 Commercial Instruments And Transactions","Chapter 9 Secured Transactions","Part 3 Perfection and Priority","2. Perfection"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.tn.tca/release76.2021.05.21/gov.tn.tca.title.47.odt","current_through":"2021-05-21","vintage":"Tennessee Code Release 76 (2021-05), retrieved 2026-09-17; absent from the newer snapshot, which serves other sections of this chapter, so it may since have been repealed or amended","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T21:55:59Z","sha256":"cb43826c256231e7a889689e091c5d9f137b56baa0da1338724301481f850343","source_id":"us-tn","stale":true,"prev":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-47-9-309","next":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-47-9-311"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}