Section 11-9-705. Effectiveness of action taken before effective date.

   (a)  Pre-effective date action; one-year perfection period unless reperfected. If action, other than the filing of a financing statement, is taken before July 1, 2001, and the action would have resulted in priority of a security interest over the rights of a person that becomes a lien creditor had the security interest become enforceable before July 1, 2001, the action is effective to perfect a security interest that attaches under this article within one year after July 1, 2001. An attached security interest becomes unperfected one year after July 1, 2001, unless the security interest becomes a perfected security interest under this article before the expiration of that period.

(b)  Pre-effective date filing. The filing of a financing statement before July 1, 2001, is effective to perfect a security interest to the extent the filing would satisfy the applicable requirements for perfection under this article.

(c)  Pre-effective date filing in jurisdiction formerly governing perfection. This article and amendments to other Code sections which amendments were enacted in conjunction with this article do not render ineffective an effective financing statement that, before July 1, 2001, is filed and satisfies the applicable requirements for perfection under the law of the jurisdiction governing perfection as provided in former Code Section 11-9-103. However, except as otherwise provided in subsections (d) and (e) of this Code section and Code Section 11-9-706, the financing statement ceases to be effective at the earlier of:

   (1) The time the financing statement would have ceased to be effective under the law of the jurisdiction in which it is filed; or

   (2) June 30, 2006.

(d)  Continuation statement. The filing of a continuation statement on or after July 1, 2001, does not continue the effectiveness of the financing statement filed before July 1, 2001. However, upon the timely filing of a continuation statement on or after July 1, 2001, and in accordance with the law of the jurisdiction governing perfection as provided in Part 3 of this article, the effectiveness of a financing statement filed in the same office in that jurisdiction before July 1, 2001, continues for the period provided by the law of that jurisdiction.

(e)  Application of paragraph (2) of subsection (c) of this Code section to transmitting utility financing statement. Paragraph (2) of subsection (c) of this Code section applies to a financing statement that, before July 1, 2001, is filed against a transmitting utility and satisfies the applicable requirements for perfection under the law of the jurisdiction governing perfection as provided in former Code Section 11-9-103 only to the extent that Part 3 of this article provides that the law of a jurisdiction other than jurisdiction in which the financing statement is filed governs perfection of a security interest in collateral covered by the financing statement.

(f)  Application of Part 5 of this article. A financing statement that includes a financing statement filed before July 1, 2001, and a continuation statement filed on or after July 1, 2001, is effective only to the extent that it satisfies the requirements of Part 5 of this article for an initial financing statement.

Code 1981, § 11-9-705, enacted by Ga. L. 2001, p. 362, § 1.