{"data":{"id":"us-ca/com-9501","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"COM § 9501","heading":"","body":"(a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (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 either of the following:\n(1) The office designated for the filing or recording of a record of a mortgage on the related real property, if either of the following conditions is satisfied:\n(A) The collateral is as-extracted collateral or timber to be cut.\n(B) The financing statement is filed as a fixture filing and the collateral is goods that are or are to become fixtures.\n(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.\n(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.","path":["Commercial Code - COM","DIVISION 9. SECURED TRANSACTIONS [9101. - 9907.]","CHAPTER 5. Filing [9501. - 9528.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"dc06b0816bae1c33838d59ac231cfb084fd88692de7667025a78402f9cf6a3a9","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/com-9409","next":"us-ca/com-9502"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}