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Miss. Code Ann. § 75-9-501

Filing office

Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case 437 So. 2d 47 - Murray v. Payne (1983)

Most recently applied in Jennings v. Shuler (February 2014)

Former 1972 Code § 75-9-501 [Codes, 1942, § 41A:9-501; Laws, 1966, ch. 316, § 9-501; Laws, 1977, ch. 452, § 32, eff from and after April 1, 1978] is now found in comparable prov…

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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:

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

(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.

The collateral is as-extracted collateral or timber to be cut; or

The financing statement is filed as a fixture filing and the collateral is goods that are or are to become fixtures; or

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.

Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.