This section addresses only whether a security interest is a "purchase-money security interest" under this Article, primarily for purposes of perfection and priority. See, e.g., Sections 9- 317, 9-324 [Maine cite sections 9-1317, 9-1324]. In particular, its adoption of the dual-status rule, allocation of payments rules, and burden of proof standards for non-consumer-goods transactions is not intended to affect or influence characterizations under other statutes. Whether a security interest is a "purchase-money security interest" under other law is determined by that law. For example, decisions under Bankruptcy Code Section 522(f) have applied both the dual-status and the transformation rules. The Bankruptcy Code does not expressly adopt the state law definition of "purchase-money security interest." Where federal law does not defer to this Article, this Article does not, and could not, determine a question of federal law.

§9-1103-A.__Production-money crops; production-money

obligation; production-money security interest;

burden of establishing

(1)__A security interest in crops is a production-money security interest to the extent that the crops are production- money crops.

(2)__If the extent to which a security interest is a production-money security interest depends on the application of a payment to a particular obligation, the payment must be applied:

(a)__In accordance with any reasonable method of application to which the parties agree;

(b)__In the absence of the parties' agreement to a reasonable method, in accordance with any intention of the obligor manifested at or before the time of payment; or

(c)__In the absence of an agreement to a reasonable method and a timely manifestation of the obligor's intention, in the following order:

(i)__To obligations that are not secured; and