Section 2--401. 2--505, 2--711(3), 2-A-508(5), 4--210, or 5--118

(73) "Security agreement" means  an  agreement  that  creates  or
              provides  for a security interest. A cooperative record that
              provides that the owner of a  cooperative  interest  has  an
              obligation  to  pay  amounts to the cooperative organization
              incident to ownership of that cooperative interest and which
              states that the cooperative organization has a direct remedy
              against that cooperative interest if such  amounts  are  not
              paid   is   a  security  agreement  creating  a  cooperative
              organization security interest.
         (74) "Send", in connection with a record or notification, means:
             (A) to deposit in the  mail,  deliver  for  transmission,  or
                 transmit  by any other usual means of communication, with
                 postage or cost of transmission provided  for,  addressed
                 to any address reasonable under the circumstances; or
             (B) to cause the record or notification to be received within
                 the  time  that  it  would have been received if properly
                 sent under subparagraph (A).
         (75) "Software" means  a  computer  program  and  any  supporting
              information   provided  in  connection  with  a  transaction
              relating to  the  program.  The  term  does  not  include  a
              computer  program  that  is  included  in  the definition of
              goods.
         (76) "State" means a state of the United States, the District  of
              Columbia,  Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or

              any  territory  or  insular  possession   subject   to   the
              jurisdiction of the United States.
         (77) "Supporting  obligation"  means  a letter-of-credit right or
              secondary  obligation   that   supports   the   payment   or
              performance  of  an  account,  chattel  paper, a document, a
              general intangible, an instrument, or investment property.
         (78) "Tangible chattel paper" means chattel paper evidenced by  a
              record   or   records  consisting  of  information  that  is
              inscribed on a tangible medium.
         (79) "Termination statement" means an amendment  of  a  financing
              statement which:
             (A) identifies,  by  its  file  number, the initial financing
                 statement to which it relates; and
             (B) indicates either that it is a  termination  statement  or
                 that  the  identified  financing  statement  is no longer
                 effective.
         (80) "Transmitting utility" means a person primarily  engaged  in
              the business of:
             (A) operating  a railroad, subway, street railway, or trolley
                 bus;
             (B) transmitting         communications         electrically,
                 electromagnetically, or by light;
             (C) transmitting goods by pipeline or sewer; or
             (D) transmitting  or  producing and transmitting electricity,
                 steam, gas, or water.
  (b) Definitions in other articles. The following  definitions  in  other
  articles apply to this article:
 
       "Applicant"                                  Section 5--102.
       "Beneficiary"                                Section 5--102.
       "Broker"                                     Section 8--102.
       "Certificated security"                      Section 8--102.
       "Clearing corporation"                       Section 8--102.
       "Contract for sale"                          Section 2--106.
       "Customer"                                   Section 4--104.
       "Entitlement holder"                         Section 8--102.
       "Financial asset"                            Section 8--102.
       "Holder in due course"                       Section 3--302.
       "Issuer" (with respect to a letter of
          credit or letter-of-credit right)         Section 5--102.
       "Issuer" (with respect to a security)        Section 8--201.
       "Lease"                                      Section 2-A-103.
       "Lease agreement"                            Section 2-A-103.
       "Lease contract"                             Section 2-A-103.
       "Leasehold interest"                         Section 2-A-103.
       "Lessee"                                     Section 2-A-103.
       "Lessee in ordinary course of business"      Section 2-A-103.
       "Lessor"                                     Section 2-A-103.
       "Lessor's residual interest"                 Section 2-A-103.
       "Letter of credit"                           Section 5--102.
       "Merchant"                                   Section 2--104.
       "Negotiable instrument"                      Section 3--104.
       "Nominated person"                           Section 5--102.
       "Note"                                       Section 3--104.
       "Proceeds of a letter of credit"             Section 5--114.
       "Sale"                                       Section 2--106.
       "Securities account"                         Section 8--501.
       "Securities intermediary"                    Section 8--102.
       "Security"                                   Section 8--102.
       "Security certificate"                       Section 8--102.
       "Security entitlement"                       Section 8--102.
       "Uncertificated security"                    Section 8--102.
  (c) Article  1  definitions  and  principles. Article 1 contains general
  definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable
  throughout this article.