As Amended
SEC. 75-9-501. Filing office [Effective January 1, 2002].
(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), 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:
(1) The office designated for the filing or recording of a record of a mortgage on the related real property, if:
(A) The collateral is as-extracted collateral or timber to be cut; or
(B) The financing statement is filed as a fixture filing and the collateral is goods that are or are to become fixtures; or
(2) 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.
(b) 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.
SOURCES: Former 1972 Code § 75-9-501 [Codes, 1942, § 41A:9-501; Laws, 1966, ch. 316, § 9-501; Laws, 1977, ch. 452, § 32, eff from and after April 1, 1978] is now found in comparable provisions enacted at §§ 75-9-601 through 75-9-604 by Laws, 2001, ch. 495, § 1. Present § 75-9-501 was derived from former 1972 Code § 75-9-401 [Codes, 1942, § 41A:9-401; Laws, 1966, ch. 316, § 9-401; Laws, 1968, ch. 489, § 1; Laws, 1977, ch. 452, § 24; Laws, 1982, ch. 439; Laws, 1984, ch. 454, § 1; Laws, 1995, ch. 329, § 1, eff from and after July 1, 1995] and was enacted by Laws, 2001, ch. 495, § 1, HB 1311, eff from and after January 1, 2002.
PREVIOUS VERSIONS: Pre-2001