RS 10:9-501 Filing office
PART 5. FILING
SUBPART 1. FILING OFFICE; CONTENTS AND
EFFECTIVENESS OF FINANCING STATEMENT
§9-501. Filing office
(a) Filing offices. 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 Department of Public Safety and Corrections, office of motor vehicles, if the collateral is a titled motor vehicle not held as inventory for sale or lease.
(2) the recorder of mortgages of Orleans Parish or the clerk of court of any other parish, in all other cases, including a case in which the collateral is as-extracted collateral, standing timber that constitute goods, or goods that are to become fixtures and the financing statement is filed as a fixture filing.
NOTE: Paragraph (a)(3) effective until January 1, 2011. See Acts 2009, No. 508, §1.
(3) The Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, if the collateral is a titled vessel valued in excess of two thousand five hundred dollars, to be principally operated on the waters of this state, required to be numbered, not held as inventory for sale or lease, and transferred for the first time on or after July 1, 2008.
NOTE: Paragraph (a)(3) as amended by Acts 2009, No. 508, §1, effective January 1, 2011.
(3) The Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, if the collateral is a titled vessel valued in excess of two thousand five hundred dollars and required to be numbered, or a titled outboard motor, and such vessel or motor is to be principally operated on the waters of this state, not held as inventory for sale or lease, and transferred for the first time on or after July 1, 2008.
(b) [Reserved.]
Acts 1988, No. 528, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990; Acts 1989, No. 135, §7, eff. Jan. 1, 1990; Acts 1992, No. 235, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1993; Acts 2001, No. 128, §1, eff. July 1, 2001; Acts 2004, No. 303, §2; Acts 2007, No. 319, §1, eff. July 1, 2008; Acts 2009, No. 508, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2011.