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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXXIX
COMMERCIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 679
UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE: SECURED TRANSACTIONS
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679.3081 When security interest or agricultural lien is perfected; continuity of perfection.
(1) Except as otherwise provided in this section and s. 679.3091, a security interest is perfected if it has attached and all of the applicable requirements for perfection in ss. 679.3101-679.3161 have been satisfied. A security interest is perfected when it attaches if the applicable requirements are satisfied before the security interest attaches.
(2) An agricultural lien is perfected if it has become effective and all of the applicable requirements for perfection in s. 679.3101 have been satisfied. An agricultural lien is perfected when it becomes effective if the applicable requirements are satisfied before the agricultural lien becomes effective.
(3) A security interest or agricultural lien is perfected continuously if it is originally perfected by one method under this chapter and is later perfected by another method under this chapter, without an intermediate period during which it was unperfected.
(4) Perfection of a security interest in collateral also perfects a security interest in a supporting obligation for the collateral.
(5) Perfection of a security interest in a right to payment or performance also perfects a security interest in a security interest, mortgage, or other lien on personal or real property securing the right.
(6) Perfection of a security interest in a securities account also perfects a security interest in the security entitlements carried in the securities account.
(7) Perfection of a security interest in a commodity account also perfects a security interest in the commodity contracts carried in the commodity account.
History.s. 3, ch. 2001-198.

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Carrier Enter., LLC v. City of Dunedin (In re Climate Control Mech. Servs., Inc.), 570 B.R. 673 (Bankr. M.D. Fla. 2017).

Cited 1 times | Published | United States Bankruptcy Court, M.D. Florida

...t be perfected before it has attached.” 47 Fla. Jur 2d Secured Transactions § 133 (2017). “A security interest is perfected when it attaches if the applicable requirements [for perfection] are satisfied before the security interest attaches.” § 679.3081, Fla....
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In Re Royal West Props., Inc., 441 B.R. 158 (Bankr. S.D. Fla. 2010).

Published | United States Bankruptcy Court, S.D. Florida. | 22 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. B 637, 2010 Bankr. LEXIS 4902, 54 Bankr. Ct. Dec. (CRR) 44

...§ 679.3121(1), or have possession of the original Mortgage Note which perfects the security interest under Fla. Stat. § 679.3131(1). A perfected security interest in the Mortgage Note automatically perfects a security interest in the corresponding Mortgage under Fla. Stat. § 679.3081(5)....
...property, but not an interest in the underlying realty. See Fla. Stat. Ann. § 679.1091(4)(k) (West 2010) (attachment of a security interest in a mortgage on real property under Fla. Stat. § 679.2031 and perfection of that interest under Fla. Stat. § 679.3081 are within the scope of Chapter 679)....