Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.502 · Subchapter E. FILING
CONTENTS OF FINANCING STATEMENT; RECORD OF MORTGAGE AS FINANCING STATEMENT; TIME OF FILING FINANCING STATEMENT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Subject to Subsection (b), a financing statement is sufficient only if it:
(1) provides the name of the debtor;
(2) provides the name of the secured party or a representative of the secured party; and
(3) indicates the collateral covered by the financing statement.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in Section 9.501(b), to be sufficient, a financing statement that covers as-extracted collateral or timber to be cut, or that is filed as a fixture filing and covers goods that are or are to become fixtures, must satisfy Subsection (a) and also:
(1) indicate that it covers this type of collateral;
(2) indicate that it is to be filed for record in the real property records;
(3) provide a description of the real property to which the collateral is related sufficient to give constructive notice of a mortgage under the law of this state if the description were contained in a record of the mortgage of the real property; and
(4) if the debtor does not have an interest of record in the real property, provide the name of a record owner.
(c) A record of a mortgage is effective, from the date of recording, as a financing statement filed as a fixture filing or as a financing statement covering as-extracted collateral or timber to be cut only if:
(1) the record indicates the goods or accounts that it covers;
(2) the goods are or are to become fixtures related to the real property described in the record or the collateral is related to the real property described in the record and is as-extracted collateral or timber to be cut;
(3) the record satisfies the requirements for a financing statement in this section, but:
(A) the record need not indicate that it is to be filed in the real property records; and
(B) the record sufficiently provides the name of a debtor who is an individual if it provides the individual name of the debtor or the surname and first personal name of the debtor, even if the debtor is an individual to whom Section 9.503(a)(4) or (5) applies; and
(4) the record is duly recorded.
(d) A financing statement may be filed before a security agreement is made or a security interest otherwise attaches.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Amended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 414, Sec. 1.01, eff. July 1, 2001.
Amended by:
Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 67 (S.B. 782), Sec. 11, eff. July 1, 2013.
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- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 2A.309LESSOR'S AND LESSEE'S RIGHTS WHEN GOODS BECOME FIXTURES.Printed as Sections 9.502(a)
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.102DEFINITIONS AND INDEX OF DEFINITIONS.Printed as Sections 9.502(a)
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.109SCOPE.Printed as Sections 9.501, 9.502, 9.512, 9.516, and 9.519
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.512AMENDMENT OF FINANCING STATEMENT.Printed as Section 9.502(b)
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.514ASSIGNMENT OF POWERS OF SECURED PARTY OF RECORD.Printed as Section 9.502(c)
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.515DURATION AND EFFECTIVENESS OF FINANCING STATEMENT; EFFECT OF LAPSED FINANCING STATEMENT.Printed as Section 9.502(c)
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.520ACCEPTANCE AND REFUSAL TO ACCEPT RECORD.Printed as Sections 9.502(a)
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.525FEES.Printed as Section 9.502(c)
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