30-9-307. (Temporary) Protection of buyers of goods. (1) A buyer in ordinary course of business (subsection (9) of 30-1-201) other than a person buying farm products from a person engaged in farming operations takes free of a security interest created by his seller even though the security interest is perfected and even though the buyer knows of its existence.
     (2) In the case of consumer goods and in the case of farm equipment having an original purchase price not in excess of $2,500 (other than fixtures, see 30-9-313), a buyer takes free of a security interest even though perfected if he buys without knowledge of the security interest, for value and for his own personal, family or household purposes or his own farming operations unless prior to the purchase the secured party has filed a financing statement covering such goods. (Repealed effective July 1, 2001--secs. 168, 171, Ch. 305, L. 1999.)

     History: En. Sec. 9-307, Ch. 264, L. 1963; R.C.M. 1947, 87A-9-307.