{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-46-46-17","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 46, § 46-17","heading":"Mortgages, deeds of trust, etc. made by certain","body":"corporations covering real or personal property - Filing in Office\n\nof Secretary of State - Refiling - Fees.\n\nEvery mortgage, deed of trust, and instruments supplementary\n\nthereto or amendatory thereof, or satisfaction thereof, covering any\n\nreal or personal property situated in this state, made to secure the\n\npayment of bonds or notes issued or to be issued thereafter by any\n\ncorporation which is an interstate gas pipeline company, or by any\n\npublic service corporation, as defined in Section 34, Article IX of\n\nthe Constitution of Oklahoma, or by any rural water, gas or sewer\n\ndistrict organized pursuant to Sections 1324.1 through 1324.26 of\n\nTitle 82 of the Oklahoma Statutes, or by any nonprofit rural water,\n\ngas or sewer company organized pursuant to Sections 851 through 864\n\nof Title 18 of the Oklahoma Statutes, or by any public trust created\n\nunder the laws of this state for water, sewer or gas purposes where\n\na municipality or county is the beneficiary thereof, and every\n\nmortgage, deed of trust, and instruments supplementary thereto or\n\namendatory thereof, or satisfaction thereof, covering any real or\n\npersonal property situated in this state made to secure any\n\nindebtedness incurred under the Rural Electrification Act of 1936,\n\nas amended (U.S. Code, Title 7, Chapter 31), shall be executed and\n\nacknowledged in the same manner as are conveyances of real estate\n\nand shall be filed in the Office of the Secretary of State, who\n\nshall endorse thereon his certificate specifying the day and hour of\n\nthe instrument's receipt and filing, which shall be evidence of such\n\nfacts. Any description of personal or real property in such\n\nmortgage shall be sufficient whether or not it is specific if it\n\nreasonably identifies what is described and interests in real\n\nproperty created by an instrument previously recorded in the office\n\nof a county clerk of this state may be incorporated therein by\n\nreference. Except as hereinafter provided filing of such instrument\n\nin the Office of the Secretary of State shall be notice to all\n\nsubsequent purchasers and encumbrancers of the rights and interests\n\nof the parties thereto as to property described in the filed\n\ninstrument and property acquired subsequent to the execution thereof\n\nif the instrument so provides and except as hereinafter provided no\n\nother filing of any such instrument shall be necessary,\n\nnotwithstanding the provisions of any other statute. Provided that\n\nin order to impart notice as to real property, instruments issued by\n\na rural water, gas or sewer district, a nonprofit rural water, gas\n\nor sewer company or a public trust created for water, sewer or gas\n\npurposes where a municipality or county is the beneficiary, must be\n\nfiled in the office of the county clerk of the county wherein the\n\nreal property is located, as well as in the Office of the Secretary\n\nof State. Any such mortgage, deed of trust, and instruments\n\nsupplementary thereto or amendatory thereof, heretofore recorded or\n\nfiled in the office of county clerk of any county in this state may\n\nbe refiled in the Office of the Secretary of State in the manner\n\nabove provided and such refiling shall thereafter as to any property\n\nnot previously released from such mortgage or deed of trust be of\n\nthe same effect as if the instrument had been originally filed in\n\nsaid Office of the Secretary of State.\n\nThe Secretary of State shall charge and collect a fee of Twenty-\n\nfive Dollars ($25.00) for each mortgage, deed of trust, or\n\ninstrument amendatory or supplementary thereto, that is filed, or\n\nrefiled, and for every instrument of satisfaction for said mortgage,\n\ndeed of trust, or instrument amendatory or supplementary thereto,\n\nthat is filed, in the Office of the Secretary of State pursuant to\n\nthe provisions of this section. This fee shall include other fees\n\npayable to the Secretary of State as provided for by law for such\n\nfilings.","path":["OK Code","Title 46"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os46.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"8b84b43089c1ff8ede3b07ed2acee30b20a66ede85fa29544c28f5af05033308","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-46-46-16","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-46-46-18"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}