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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="9-108" title_number="9" title_name="Secured Transactions" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="General Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Except as otherwise provided in subsections (c), (d), and (e), a description of personal or real property is sufficient, whether or not it is specific, if it reasonably identifies what is described.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d), a description of collateral reasonably identifies the collateral if it identifies the collateral by:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Specific listing;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Category;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Except as otherwise provided in subsection (e), a type of collateral defined in Titles 1 through 10 of this article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Quantity;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Computational or allocational formula or procedure; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c), any other method, if the identity of the collateral is objectively determinable.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A description of collateral as “all the debtor’s assets” or “all the debtor’s personal property” or using words of similar import does not reasonably identify the collateral.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>Except as otherwise provided in subsection (e), a description of a security entitlement, securities account, or commodity account is sufficient if it describes:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The collateral by those terms or as investment property; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The underlying financial asset or commodity contract.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>A description only by type of collateral defined in Titles 1 through 10 of this article is an insufficient description of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A commercial tort claim; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>In a consumer transaction, consumer goods, a security entitlement, a securities account, or a commodity account.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
