2010 Pennsylvania Code
Title 13 - COMMERCIAL CODE
Chapter 95 - Filing
9501 - Filing office.

                                CHAPTER 95
                                  FILING

     Subchapter
        A.  Filing Office; Contents and Effectiveness of Financing
            Statement
        B.  Duties and Operation of Filing Office

        Enactment.  Chapter 95 was added June 8, 2001, P.L.123,
     No.18, effective July 1, 2001.
        Prior Provisions.  Former Chapter 95, which related to
     default, was added November 1, 1979, P.L.255, No.86, and
     repealed June 8, 2001, P.L.123, No.18, effective July 1, 2001.
        Cross References.  Chapter 95 is referred to in sections
     9705, 9706 of this title.

                               SUBCHAPTER A
                       FILING OFFICE; CONTENTS AND
                   EFFECTIVENESS OF FINANCING STATEMENT

     Sec.
     9501.  Filing office.
     9502.  Contents of financing statement; record of mortgage as
            financing statement; time of filing financing statement.
     9503.  Name of debtor and secured party.
     9504.  Indication of collateral.
     9505.  Filing and compliance with other statutes and treaties for
            consignments, leases, other bailments and other
            transactions.
     9506.  Effect of errors or omissions.
     9507.  Effect of certain events on effectiveness of financing
            statement.
     9508.  Effectiveness of financing statement if new debtor
            becomes bound by security agreement.
     9509.  Persons entitled to file a record.
     9510.  Effectiveness of filed record.
     9511.  Secured party of record.
     9512.  Amendment of financing statement.
     9513.  Termination statement.
     9514.  Assignment of powers of secured party of record.
     9515.  Duration and effectiveness of financing statement; effect
            of lapsed financing statement.
     9516.  What constitutes filing; effectiveness of filing.
     9517.  Effect of indexing errors.
     9518.  Claim concerning inaccurate or wrongfully filed record.
     § 9501.  Filing office.
        (a)  Filing offices.--Except as otherwise provided in
     subsection (b), if the local law of this Commonwealth 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 one of the following:
            (1)  The office designated for the filing or recording of
        a record of a mortgage on the related real property if:
                (i)  the collateral is as-extracted collateral or
            timber to be cut; or
                (ii)  the financing statement is filed as a fixture
            filing and the collateral is goods which are or are to
            become fixtures.
            (2)  The office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth in
        all other cases, including a case in which the collateral is
        goods which are or are to become fixtures and the financing
        statement is not filed as a fixture filing.
        (b)  Filing office for transmitting utilities.--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 the Commonwealth. The
     financing statement also constitutes a fixture filing as to the
     collateral indicated in the financing statement which is or is
     to become fixtures.

        Cross References.  Section 9501 is referred to in sections
     9102, 9109, 9502, 9512, 9516, 9519, 9520, 9523, 9525, 9706, 9707
     of this title.