Montana Code Annotated 2019

TITLE 30. TRADE AND COMMERCE

CHAPTER 9A. UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE SECURED TRANSACTIONS

Part 3. Perfection and Priority

Effectiveness Of Right Of Recoupment Or Setoff Against Deposit Account

30-9A-340. Effectiveness of right of recoupment or setoff against deposit account. (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (3), a bank with which a deposit account is maintained may exercise against a secured party that holds a security interest in the deposit account any right of recoupment or setoff.

(2) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (3), the application of this chapter to a security interest in a deposit account does not affect a right of recoupment or setoff of the secured party as to a deposit account maintained with the secured party.

(3) The exercise by a bank of a setoff against a deposit account is ineffective against a secured party that holds a security interest in the deposit account that is perfected by control under 30-9A-104(1)(c) if the setoff is based on a claim against the debtor.

History: En. Sec. 59, Ch. 305, L. 1999; Sec. 30-9-360, MCA 1999; redes. 30-9A-340 by Code Commissioner, 2001.