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Pennsylvania · Through 2025-12-01 (Statute Update stamp, 13 Pa.C.S.)

13 Pa.C.S. § 9501: Filing office.

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  1. Title 13 - COMMERCIAL CODE
  2. CHAPTER 95 FILING
  3. SUBCHAPTER A FILING OFFICE; CONTENTS AND EFFECTIVENESS OF FINANCING STATEMENT

(a) Filing offices.--Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), if the local law of this Commonwealth 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 one of the following:

(1) The office designated for the filing or recording of a record of a mortgage on the related real property if:

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

(ii) the financing statement is filed as a fixture filing and the collateral is goods which are or are to become fixtures.

(2) The office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth in all other cases, including a case in which the collateral is goods which are or are to become fixtures and the financing statement is not filed as a fixture filing.

(b) 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 the Commonwealth. 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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