Section 848.4 Of Article 5.6. Financing Utility Recovery From California Public Utilities Code >> Division 1. >> Part 1. >> Chapter 4. >> Article 5.6.
848.4
. (a) A transfer of recovery property by the recovery
corporation to an affiliate or to a financing entity, or by an
affiliate of the recovery corporation or a financing entity to
another financing entity, which the parties in the governing
documentation have expressly stated to be a sale or other absolute
transfer, in a transaction approved in a financing order, shall be
treated as an absolute transfer of all of the transferor's right,
title, and interest (as in a true sale), and not as a pledge or other
financing, of the recovery property, other than for federal and
state income and franchise tax purposes. The grant to holders of
recovery bonds of a preferred right to revenues of the recovery
corporation, or the provision by the company of other credit
enhancement with respect to recovery bonds, shall not impair or
negate the characterization of any transfer as a true sale, other
than for federal and state income and franchise tax purposes.
(b) A transfer of recovery property shall be deemed perfected as
against third persons when both of the following have taken place:
(1) The commission has issued the financing order authorizing the
fixed recovery amounts included in the recovery property.
(2) An assignment of the recovery property in writing has been
executed and delivered to the transferee.
(c) As between bona fide assignees of the same right for value
without notice, the assignee first filing a financing statement in
accordance with Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 9501) of Division
9 of the Commercial Code naming the assignor of the recovery property
as debtor and identifying the recovery property has priority. Any
description of the recovery property is sufficient if it refers to
the financing order creating the recovery property. A copy of the
financing statement shall be filed by the assignee with the
commission, and the commission may require the assignor or the
assignee to make other filings with respect to the transfer in
accordance with procedures it may establish, but these filings shall
not affect the perfection of the transfer.