{"data":{"id":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-12a-9-501","jurisdiction":"us-nj","citation":"N.J. Stat. § 12A:9-501","heading":"Filing office.","body":"Filing Office.\n(a)\tFiling offices.  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 :\n(1)\tthe office designated for the filing or recording of a record of a mortgage on the related real property, if:\n(A)\tthe collateral is as-extracted collateral or timber to be cut; or\n(B)\tthe financing statement is filed as a fixture filing and the collateral is goods that are or are to become fixtures; or\n(2)\tthe Division of Commercial Recording or other office designated by Executive Order, 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)\tFiling 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 Division of Commercial Recording or other office designated by Executive Order.  The financing statement also constitutes a fixture filing as to the collateral indicated in the financing statement which is or is to become fixtures.\nL.2001, c.117, s.1; amended 2001, c.386, s.66.","path":["TITLE 12A COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS"],"source_url":"https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/statutes/STATUTES-TEXT.zip","current_through":"P.L.2025, c.405, and J.R.22","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T17:54:13Z","sha256":"7b905da82e6a17b1d25446b3ea78b986e6222d6915243e9a2e2e9c10a4107f15","source_id":"us-nj","stale":true,"prev":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-12a-9-409","next":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-12a-9-502"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}