Section 26-4-6-3 - Compensation from fund; extension(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), within ninety (90) days of the board's approval of a claim, the board shall compensate from the fund, in an amount described in section 4 of this chapter and in the manner described in subsection (c), a claimant who has incurred a financial loss or storage loss due to a failure of a grain buyer or warehouse operator licensed under IC 26-3-7.(b) The time for payment may be extended if the board and claimant mutually agree and put the terms of the payment in writing.(c) If: (1) a claimant engaged in farming operations granted to one (1) or more secured parties one (1) or more security interests in the grain related to the claimant's claim under this section; and(2) one (1) or more secured parties described in subdivision (1) have given to:(A) the licensee prior written notice of the security interest under IC 26-1-9.1-320(a)(1) or IC 26-1-9-307(1)(a) before its repeal; and(B) the board prior written notice of the security interest with respect to the grain described in subdivision (1) sufficient to give the board a reasonable opportunity to cause the issuance of a joint check under this subsection; the board may compensate the claimant described in subdivision (1) in the amount to which the claimant is entitled under section 4 of this chapter by causing the issuance of a check payable jointly to the order of the claimant and any secured party described in subdivision (1) who has given the notices described in subdivision (2). If only one (1) secured party described in subdivision (1) is a payee, the rights of the secured party in the check shall be to the extent of the indebtedness of the claimant to the secured party. If two (2) or more secured parties described in subdivision (1) are payees, the nature, extent, and priority of their respective rights in the check are determined in the same manner as the nature, extent, and priority of their respective security interest under IC 26-1-9.1.
As added by P.L. 250-1995, SEC.1. Amended by P.L. 115-1999, SEC.5; P.L. 1-2002, SEC.102; P.L. 75-2010, SEC.28.