2012 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes
Title 13 - COMMERCIAL CODE
Chapter 93 - Perfection and Priority
Section 9307 - Location of debtor

     § 9307.  Location of debtor.
        (a)  Place of business.--As used in this section, the term
     "place of business" means a place where a debtor conducts its
     affairs.
        (b)  Debtor's location: general rules.--Except as otherwise
     provided in this section, the following rules determine a
     debtor's location:
            (1)  A debtor who is an individual is located at the
        individual's principal residence.
            (2)  A debtor which is an organization and has only one
        place of business is located at its place of business.
            (3)  A debtor which is an organization and has more than
        one place of business is located at its chief executive
        office.
        (c)  Limitation of applicability of subsection (b).--
     Subsection (b) applies only if a debtor's residence, place of
     business or chief executive office, as applicable, is located in
     a jurisdiction whose law generally requires information
     concerning the existence of a nonpossessory security interest to
     be made generally available in a filing, recording or
     registration system as a condition or result of the security
     interest's obtaining priority over the rights of a lien creditor
     with respect to the collateral. If subsection (b) does not
     apply, the debtor is located in the District of Columbia.
        (d)  Continuation of location: cessation of existence, etc.--
     A person that ceases to exist, ceases to have a residence or
     ceases to have a place of business continues to be located in
     the jurisdiction specified by subsections (b) and (c).
        (e)  Location of registered organization organized under
     state law.--A registered organization which is organized under
     the law of a state is located in that state.
        (f)  Location of registered organization organized under
     Federal law; bank branches and agencies.--Except as otherwise
     provided in subsection (i), a registered organization which is
     organized under the law of the United States and a branch or
     agency of a bank which is not organized under the law of the
     United States or a state are located:
            (1)  in the state which the law of the United States
        designates, if the law designates a state of location;
            (2)  in the state which the registered organization,
        branch or agency designates, if the law of the United States
        authorizes the registered organization, branch or agency to
        designate its state of location; or
            (3)  in the District of Columbia, if neither paragraph
        (1) nor paragraph (2) applies.
        (g)  Continuation of location: change in status of registered
     organization.--A registered organization continues to be located
     in the jurisdiction specified by subsection (e) or (f)
     notwithstanding:
            (1)  the suspension, revocation, forfeiture or lapse of
        the registered organization's status as such in its
        jurisdiction of organization; or
            (2)  the dissolution, winding up or cancellation of the
        existence of the registered organization.
        (h)  Location of United States.--The location of the United
     States is the District of Columbia.
        (i)  Location of foreign bank branch or agency if licensed in
     only one state.--A branch or agency of a bank which is not
     organized under the law of the United States or a state is
     located in the state in which the branch or agency is licensed,
     if all branches and agencies of the bank are licensed in only
     one state.
        (j)  Location of foreign air carrier.--A foreign air carrier
     under the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 (Public Law 85-726, 72
     Stat. 731), as amended, is located at the designated office of
     the agent upon which service of process may be made on behalf of
     the carrier.
        (k)  Section applies only to this chapter.--This section
     applies only for purposes of this chapter.