Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.501 · Subchapter E. FILING
FILING OFFICE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) 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:
(A) the collateral is as-extracted collateral or timber to be cut; or
(B) the financing statement is filed as a fixture filing and the collateral is goods that are or are to become fixtures; or
(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.
(b) 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 that is or is to become fixtures.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Amended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 414, Sec. 1.01, eff. July 1, 2001.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.9.htm
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Cited by 12 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.501. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Business & Commerce Code
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.102DEFINITIONS AND INDEX OF DEFINITIONS.Printed as Section 9.501
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.109SCOPE.Printed as Sections 9.501, 9.502, 9.512, 9.516, and 9.519
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.502CONTENTS OF FINANCING STATEMENT; RECORD OF MORTGAGE AS FINANCING STATEMENT; TIME OF FILING FINANCING STATEMENT.Printed as Section 9.501(b)
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.512AMENDMENT OF FINANCING STATEMENT.Printed as Section 9.501(a)(1)
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.516WHAT CONSTITUTES FILING; EFFECTIVENESS OF FILING.Printed as Section 9.501(a)(1)
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.519NUMBERING, MAINTAINING, AND INDEXING RECORDS; COMMUNICATING INFORMATION PROVIDED IN RECORDS.Printed as Section 9.501(a)(1)
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.520ACCEPTANCE AND REFUSAL TO ACCEPT RECORD.Printed as Section 9.501(a)(2)
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.705EFFECTIVENESS OF ACTION TAKEN BEFORE EFFECTIVE DATE.Printed as Section 9.501
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.706WHEN INITIAL FINANCING STATEMENT SUFFICES TO CONTINUE EFFECTIVENESS OF FINANCING STATEMENT.Printed as Section 9.501
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.707AMENDMENT OF PRE-EFFECTIVE-DATE FINANCING STATEMENT.Printed as Section 9.501
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.806WHEN INITIAL FINANCING STATEMENT SUFFICES TO CONTINUE EFFECTIVENESS OF FINANCING STATEMENT.Printed as Section 9.501
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.807AMENDMENT OF PRE-EFFECTIVE-DATE FINANCING STATEMENT.Printed as Section 9.501
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