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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="9-207" title_number="9" title_name="Secured Transactions" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Effectiveness of Security Agreement; Attachment of Security Agreement; Rights of Parties to Security Agreement">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d), a secured party shall use reasonable care in the custody and preservation of collateral in the secured party’s possession. In the case of chattel paper or an instrument, reasonable care includes taking necessary steps to preserve rights against prior parties unless otherwise agreed.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d), if a secured party has possession of collateral:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Reasonable expenses, including the cost of insurance and payment of taxes or other charges, incurred in the custody, preservation, use, or operation of the collateral are chargeable to the debtor and are secured by the collateral;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The risk of accidental loss or damage is on the debtor to the extent of a deficiency in any effective insurance coverage;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The secured party shall keep the collateral identifiable, but fungible collateral may be commingled; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The secured party may use or operate the collateral:</text>
      <level label="A">
        <text>For the purpose of preserving the collateral or its value;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="B">
        <text>As permitted by an order of a court having competent jurisdiction; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="C">
        <text>Except in the case of consumer goods, in the manner and to the extent agreed by the debtor.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d), a secured party having possession of collateral or control of collateral under § 7-106, § 9-104, § 9-105, §  9-106, or § 9-107:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>May hold as additional security any proceeds, except money or funds, received from the collateral;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Shall apply money or funds received from the collateral to reduce the secured obligation, unless remitted to the debtor; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>May create a security interest in the collateral.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>If the secured party is a buyer of accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, or promissory notes or a consignor:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Subsection (a) does not apply unless the secured party is entitled under an agreement:</text>
      <level label="A">
        <text>To charge back uncollected collateral; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="B">
        <text>Otherwise to full or limited recourse against the debtor or a secondary obligor based on the nonpayment or other default of an account debtor or other obligor on the collateral; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Subsections (b) and (c) do not apply.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
