GroundRules
D.C. Code § 28:9-501: Filing office.
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 28. Commercial Instruments and Transactions. [Enacted title]
- Subtitle I. Uniform Commercial Code.
- Article 9. Secured Transactions.
- Part V. Filing.
- Subpart 1. Filing Office; Contents and Effectiveness of Financing Statement.
(a)
Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), if the local law of the District 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 Recorder of Deeds, 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 Mayor 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 Mayor. The financing statement also constitutes a fixture filing as to the collateral indicated in the financing statement which is or is to become fixtures.
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