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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="9-317" title_number="9" title_name="Secured Transactions" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Perfection and Priority">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A security interest or agricultural lien is subordinate to the rights of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A person entitled to priority under § 9–322; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Except as provided in subsection (e), a person that becomes a lien creditor before the earlier of the time:</text>
      <level label="A">
        <text>The security interest or agricultural lien is perfected; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="B">
        <text>One of the conditions specified in § 9–203(b)(3) is met and a financing statement covering the collateral is filed.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Except as otherwise provided in subsection (e), a buyer, other than a secured party, of tangible chattel paper, tangible documents, goods, instruments, or a certificated security takes free of a security interest or agricultural lien if the buyer gives value and receives delivery of the collateral without knowledge of the security interest or agricultural lien and before it is perfected.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Except as otherwise provided in subsection (e), a lessee of goods takes free of a security interest or agricultural lien if the lessee gives value and receives delivery of the collateral without knowledge of the security interest or agricultural lien and before it is perfected.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>A licensee of a general intangible or a buyer, other than a secured party, of collateral other than tangible chattel paper, tangible documents, goods, instruments, or a certificated security takes free of a security interest if the licensee or buyer gives value without knowledge of the security interest and before it is perfected.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>Except as otherwise provided in §§ 9–320 and 9–321, if a person files a financing statement with respect to a purchase–money security interest before or within 20 days after the debtor receives delivery of the collateral, the security interest takes priority over the rights of a buyer, lessee, or lien creditor which arise between the time the security interest attaches and the time of filing.</text>
  </level>
</section>
