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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="9-325" 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 (b), a security interest created by a debtor is subordinate to a security interest in the same collateral created by another person if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The debtor acquired the collateral subject to the security interest created by the other person;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The security interest created by the other person was perfected when the debtor acquired the collateral; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>There is no period thereafter when the security interest is unperfected.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Subsection (a) subordinates a security interest only if the security interest:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Otherwise would have priority solely under § 9-322(a) or § 9-324; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Arose solely under § 2-711(3) or § 2A-508(5) of this article.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
