The law, state by state
Section 9‑406, as enacted in every state.
Every state, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have enacted Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, and with it Section 9‑406, the provision that governs payment after a company receives notice that the amounts it owes have been assigned. Each enactment is published by that jurisdiction's government. Choose a state to read the enacted text and open the official publication.
Paper ran across state lines, but law didn't.
Karl N. Llewellyn, Chief Reporter of the Uniform Commercial Code, on the commercial law of the nineteenth century
Why We Need the Uniform Commercial Code, 10 University of Florida Law Review 367, at 367 (1957)
The Code's own statement of its purposes
This act must be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes and policies, which are:
(1)to simplify, clarify, and modernize the law governing commercial transactions;
(2)to permit the continued expansion of commercial practices through custom, usage, and agreement of the parties; and
(3)to make uniform the law among the various jurisdictions.
Uniform Commercial Code § 1‑103(a), as enacted in New York, N.Y. U.C.C. Law § 1‑103(a)
The Uniform Commercial Code is "not a federal law, but a uniformly adopted state law." — Uniform Law Commission.
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Fifty states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico
The text on each state page is reproduced from the official publication linked on that page, which controls. The model text, as published by the Uniform Law Commission, is at Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute.
The public UCC record for every jurisdiction, with its official search, is at Filing offices.
A short history of the Code, from its stewards
- 1942
The American Law Institute joins the Uniform Law Commission's project to codify the commercial law.
- 1952
The Code is complete: in Llewellyn's words, “in form to use since 1952.”
- 1953
“Pennsylvania became the first state to adopt the UCC in 1953, and every other state followed suit over the next twenty years.”
- 1961
The Permanent Editorial Board for the Uniform Commercial Code is established.
- 1998
“A substantial revision to Article 9 was completed in 1998 and adopted in all states.”
Uniform effective date July 1, 2001. Section 9‑701
- 2010
Amendments to Article 9 are approved; uniform effective date July 1, 2013.
- 2022
“The 2022 amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code address emerging technologies”, adding Article 12 and amending Article 9.
A mechanical search of the texts as published. No commentary.
Open data
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How this reference is compiled
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Terms for this reference
This reference reproduces the text of Section 9‑406 of the Uniform Commercial Code as published by each jurisdiction's official publication when it was retrieved, with links to those publications and to each jurisdiction's public filing office. Statutes are amended, publications are revised and addresses change. The official publication of each jurisdiction, as it stands when you read it, controls over anything shown here, and before relying on any text, citation or link on these pages you are to confirm it against that publication. East Shore Equities makes no representation that any text, citation, link or other content on these pages is current, complete, accurate or free of error, and accepts no liability for any reliance on it. These pages state no position on how any enactment applies to any person, account or transaction; that is a question for your counsel.