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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="9-305" title_number="9" title_name="Secured Transactions" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Perfection and Priority">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c), the following rules apply:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>While a security certificate is located in a jurisdiction, the local law of that jurisdiction governs perfection, the effect of perfection or nonperfection, and the priority of a security interest in the certificated security represented thereby.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The local law of the issuer’s jurisdiction as specified in § 8-110(d) of this article governs perfection, the effect of perfection or nonperfection, and the priority of a security interest in an uncertificated security.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The local law of the securities intermediary’s jurisdiction as specified in § 8-110(e) of this article governs perfection, the effect of perfection or nonperfection, and the priority of a security interest in a security entitlement or securities account.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The local law of the commodity intermediary’s jurisdiction governs perfection, the effect of perfection or nonperfection, and the priority of a security interest in a commodity contract or commodity account.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The following rules determine a commodity intermediary’s jurisdiction for purposes of this subtitle:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>If an agreement between the commodity intermediary and commodity customer governing the commodity account expressly provides that a particular jurisdiction is the commodity intermediary’s jurisdiction for purposes of this subtitle, this title, or Titles 1 through 10 of this article, that jurisdiction is the commodity intermediary’s jurisdiction.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If paragraph (1) does not apply and an agreement between the commodity intermediary and commodity customer governing the commodity account expressly provides that the agreement is governed by the law of a particular jurisdiction, that jurisdiction is the commodity intermediary’s jurisdiction.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>If neither paragraph (1) nor paragraph (2) applies and an agreement between the commodity intermediary and commodity customer governing the commodity account expressly provides that the commodity account is maintained at an office in a particular jurisdiction, that jurisdiction is the commodity intermediary’s jurisdiction.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>If none of the preceding paragraphs applies, the commodity intermediary’s jurisdiction is the jurisdiction in which the office identified in an account statement as the office serving the commodity customer’s account is located.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>If none of the preceding paragraphs applies, the commodity intermediary’s jurisdiction is the jurisdiction in which the chief executive office of the commodity intermediary is located.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The local law of the jurisdiction in which the debtor is located governs:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Perfection of a security interest in investment property by filing;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Automatic perfection of a security interest in investment property created by a broker or securities intermediary; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Automatic perfection of a security interest in a commodity contract or commodity account created by a commodity intermediary.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
