Louisiana § RS 10:9-501 - Filing office
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§ RS 10:9-501. Filing office
(a) Filing offices. If the local law of this state governs perfection of a security interest, the office in which to file a financing statement to perfect the security interest 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(2) Repealed by Acts 2010, No. 378, §4, eff. Jan. 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.
(4) The clerk of court of any parish, in all other cases, including when the collateral is as-extracted collateral or goods that are to become fixtures and the financing statement is filed as a fixture filing.
(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; Acts 2010, No. 378, §§3, 4, eff. Jan. 1, 2011.
Source: official Louisiana text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section RS 10:9-501 ("Filing office") is part of the Louisiana Civil Code, the codified statutory law of Louisiana. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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