{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-11-9-501","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 11-9-501","heading":"Filing office.","body":"(a) Filing offices. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this Code section, if the 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:\n(1) The office designated for the filing or recording of a record of a mortgage on the related real property, if:\n(A) The collateral is as-extracted collateral, growing crops, or timber to be cut; or\n(B) The financing statement is filed as a fixture filing and the collateral is goods that are or are to become fixtures; or\n(2) The office of the clerk of the superior court of any county of this 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) 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 clerk of the superior court of any county of this 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":["TITLE 11 Commercial Code","Article 9 Secured Transactions","PART 5 Filing","Subpart 1 Filing Office; Contents and Effectiveness of Financing Statement"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.11.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"198f7e42b08bd1f3a6c54618e5e9f7c44231652f47e771511ae40c7fc75f90a7","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-11-9-409","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-11-9-502"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}