1999 Minnesota Statutes

     336.9-104 Transactions excluded from article. 

    This article does not apply 

    (a) to a security interest subject to any statute of the 
 United States such as the Ship Mortgage Act, 1920, to the extent 
 that such statute governs the rights of parties to and third 
 parties affected by transactions in particular types of 
 property; or 

    (b) to a landlord's lien; or 

    (c) to a lien given by statute or other rule of law for 
 services or materials except as provided in section 336.9-310 on 
 priority of such liens; or 

    (d) to a transfer of a claim for wages, salary or other 
 compensation of an employee; or 

    (e) to a transfer by a government or governmental 
 subdivision or agency to the extent that this article conflicts 
 with special statutory provisions relating to such a transfer; 
 or 

    (f) to a sale of accounts or chattel paper as part of a 
 sale of the business out of which they arose, or an assignment 
 of accounts or chattel paper which is for the purpose of 
 collection only, or a transfer of a right to payment under a 
 contract to an assignee who is also to do the performance under 
 the contract or a transfer of a single account to an assignee in 
 whole or partial satisfaction of a preexisting indebtedness; or 

    (g) to a transfer of an interest or claim in or under any 
 policy of insurance, except as provided with reference to 
 proceeds (section 336.9-306) and priorities in proceeds section 
 (336.9-312); or 

    (h) to a right represented by a judgment (other than a 
 judgment taken on a right to payment which was collateral); or 

    (i) to any right of setoff; or 

    (j) except to the extent that provision is made for 
 fixtures in section 336.9-313, to the creation or transfer of an 
 interest in or lien on real estate, including a lease or rents 
 thereunder; or 

    (k) to a transfer in whole or in part of any claim arising 
 out of tort; or 

    (l) to a transfer of an interest in any deposit account 
 (subsection (l) of section 336.9-105), except as provided with 
 respect to proceeds (section 336.9-306) and priorities in 
 proceeds (section 336.9-312); or 

    (m) except to the extent this article is not superseded by 
 sections 327.61 to 327.67, to the repossession of a manufactured 
 home meeting the definition contained in section 327.62; or 

    (n) to a transfer of an interest in a letter of credit 
 other than the rights to proceeds of a written letter of credit. 

    HIST: 1965 c 811 s 336.9-104; 1976 c 135 s 7; 1976 c 250 s 8; 
 1977 c 347 s 46; 1981 c 365 s 9; 1997 c 11 art 2 s 4