(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d) of this section, the filing of a financing statement is not necessary or effective to perfect a security interest in property subject to:

(1) 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 subsection (a) of section 42a-9-310;

(2) Any statute 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, and any non-Uniform Commercial Code filing statute, including chapter 247, section 21-67a, section 49-5, chapter 282 and chapter 283; or

(3) 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.

(b) Compliance with the requirements of a statute, regulation or treaty described in subsection (a) of this section 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 (d) of this section, section 42a-9-313 and subsections (d) and (e) of section 42a-9-316 for goods covered by a certificate of title, a security interest in property subject to a statute, regulation or treaty described in subsection (a) of this section 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.

(c) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d) of this section and subsections (d) and (e) of section 42a-9-316, 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 (a) of this section are governed by the statute, regulation or treaty. In other respects, the security interest is subject to this article.

(d) During any period in which collateral subject to a statute specified in subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of this section 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.

(1959, P.A. 133, S. 9-311; P.A. 01-132, S. 31; P.A. 02-131, S. 99; P.A. 03-62, S. 4, 5; P.A. 11-108, S. 4.)

History: P.A. 01-132 replaced former provisions re the alienability of the debtor's rights in collateral with provisions re the perfection of a security interest in property subject to certain statutes, regulations and treaties; P.A. 02-131 amended Subsec. (d) by adding “or leasing”; P.A. 03-62 amended Subsec. (a)(2) to delete reference to a non-Uniform-Commercial-Code “central” filing statute and amended Subsec. (d) to delete reference to a person in the business of “leasing” goods of that kind; P.A. 11-108 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing in Subdivs. (2) and (3) “certificate-of-title statute” with “statute” and “the certificate” with “a certificate of title”, effective July 1, 2013.