554.9501  Filing office.

1.  Filing offices.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, if the local law of this state governs perfection of a security interest or agricultural lien, the office in which to file a financing statement to perfect the security interest or agricultural lien is:

a.  the office designated for the filing or recording of a record of a mortgage on the related real property, if:

(1)  the collateral is as-extracted collateral or timber to be cut; or

(2)  the financing statement is filed as a fixture filing and the collateral is goods that are or are to become fixtures; or

b.  the office of the secretary of state in all other cases, including a case in which the collateral is goods that are or are to become fixtures and the financing statement is not filed as a fixture filing.

2.  Filing office for transmitting utilities.  The office in which to file a financing statement to perfect a security interest in collateral, including fixtures, of a transmitting utility is the office of the secretary of state. The financing statement also constitutes a fixture filing as to the collateral indicated in the financing statement which is or is to become fixtures.

Section History: Recent form

  2000 Acts, ch 1149, §72, 185, 187

Internal References

  Referred to in § 554.9102, 554.9109, 554.9502, 554.9512, 554.9516, 554.9518, 554.9519, 554.9522, 554.9706, 554.9707, 554B.1

Footnotes

  What constitutes filing, §554.9516

  Filing office duties, §554.9519-554.9527

  Effective July 1, 2001; 2000 Acts, ch 1149, §187; former section repealed effective July 1, 2001; 2000 Acts, ch 1149, §185, 187; for law prior to July 1, 2001, see Code 2001


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