PUBLIC LAW 95-473—OCT. 17, 1978 instrument or assignment including a release, discharge, or satisfaction of any part of it may also be filed with the Commission. The instrument, assi^ment, or amendment must be in writing, executed by the piarties to it, and acknowledged or verified under Commission regulations. When filed under this section, that document is notice to, and enforceable against, all persons. A document filed under this section does not have to be filed, deposited, registered, or recorded under another law of the United States, a State (or its political subdivisions), or territory or possession of the United States, related to filing, deposit, registration, or recordation of those documents. This section does not change the Ship Mortgage Act, 1920. (b) The Commission shall maintain a system for recording each document filed under subsection (a) of this section and mark each of them with a consecutive number and the date and hour of their recordation. The Commission shall maintain and keep open for public inspection an index of documents filed under that subsection. That index shall include the name and address of the principal debtors, trustees, guarantors, and other parties to those documents and may include other facts that will assist in determining the rights of the parties to those transactions. § 11304. Security interests in certain motor vehicles (a) In this section— (1) "motor vehicle" means a truck of rated capacity (gross vehicle weight) of at least 10,000 pounds, a highway tractor of rated capacity (gross combination weight) of at least 10,000 pounds, a property-carrying trailer or semitrailer with at least one load-carrying axle of at least 10,000 pounds, or a motor bus with a seating capacity of at least 10 individuals. (2) "lien creditor" means a creditor having a lien on a motor vehicle and includes an assignee for benefit of creditors from the date of assi^ment, a trustee in bankruptcy from the date of filing of the petition in bankruptcy, and a receiver in equity from the date of appointment of the receiver. (3) "security interest" means an interest (including an interest established by a conditional sales contract, mortgage, equipment trust, or other lien or title retention contract, or lease) in a motor vehicle when the interest secures payment or performance of an obligation. (4) "perfection", as related to a security interest, means taking action (including public filing, recording, notation on a certificate of title, and possession of collateral by the secured party), or the existence of facts, required under law to make a security interest enforceable against general creditors and subsequent lien creditors of a debtor, but does not include compliance with requirements related only to the establishment of a valid security interest between the debtor and the secured party. (b) A security interest in a motor vehicle owned by, or in the possession and use of, a carrier having a certificate or permit issued under section 10922 or 10923 of this title and owing payment or performance of an obligation secured by that security interest is perfected in all jurisdictions against all general, and subsequent lien, creditors of, and all persons taking a motor vehicle by sale (or taking or retaining a security interest in a motor vehicle) from, that carrier when— (1) a certificate of title is issued for a motor vehicle under a law of a jurisdiction that requires or permits indication, on a
92 STAT. 1431
46 USC 984. Record system.
49 USC 11304. Definitions.
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