California Commercial Code CHAPTER 5 - Filing

  • Section 9501.
    (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), if the local law of this state governs perfection of a security interest or agricultural lien, the office...
  • Section 9502.
    (a) Subject to subdivision (b), a financing statement is sufficient only if it satisfies all of the following conditions:(1) It provides the name of the debtor.(2) It provides...
  • Section 9503.
    (a) A financing statement sufficiently provides the name of the debtor only if it does so in accordance with the following rules:(1) Except as otherwise provided in...
  • Section 9504.
    A financing statement sufficiently indicates the collateral that it covers if the financing statement provides either of the following:(1) A description of the collateral pursuant to...
  • Section 9505.
    (a) A consignor, lessor, or other bailor of goods, a licensor, or a buyer of a payment intangible or promissory note may file a financing statement,...
  • Section 9506.
    (a) A financing statement substantially satisfying the requirements of this part is effective, even if it has minor errors or omissions, unless the errors or omissions...
  • Section 9507.
    (a) A filed financing statement remains effective with respect to collateral that is sold, exchanged, leased, licensed, or otherwise disposed of and in which a security...
  • Section 9508.
    (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a filed financing statement naming an original debtor is effective to perfect a security interest in collateral in...
  • Section 9509.
    (a) A person may file an initial financing statement, an amendment that adds collateral covered by a financing statement, or an amendment that adds a debtor...
  • Section 9510.
    (a) A filed record is effective only to the extent that it was filed by a person that may file it under Section 9509.(b) A record authorized...
  • Section 9511.
    (a) A secured party of record with respect to a financing statement is a person whose name is provided as the name of the secured party...
  • Section 9512.
    (a) Subject to Section 9509, a person may add or delete collateral covered by, continue or terminate the effectiveness of, or, subject to subdivision (e), otherwise...
  • Section 9513.
    (a) A secured party shall cause the secured party of record for a financing statement to file a termination statement for the financing statement if the...
  • Section 9514.
    (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (c), an initial financing statement may reflect an assignment of all of the secured party’s power to authorize an...
  • Section 9515.
    (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivisions (b), (e), (f), and (g), a filed financing statement is effective for a period of five years after the...
  • Section 9516.
    (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), communication of a record to a filing office and tender of the filing fee or acceptance of the...
  • Section 9517.
    The failure of the filing office to index a record correctly does not affect the effectiveness of the filed record.(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 991,...
  • Section 9518.
    (a) A person may file in the filing office an information statement with respect to a record indexed there under the person’s name if the person...
  • Section 9519.
    (a) For each record filed in a filing office, the filing office shall do all of the following:(1) Assign a unique number to the filed record.(2) Create a...
  • Section 9520.
    (a) A filing office shall refuse to accept a record for filing for a reason set forth in subdivision (b) of Section 9516 and may refuse...
  • Section 9521.
    (a) A filing office that accepts written records may not refuse to accept a written initial financing statement in the following form and format except for...
  • Section 9522.
    (a) The filing office shall maintain a record of the information provided in a filed financing statement for at least one year after the effectiveness of...
  • Section 9523.
    (a) If a person that files a written record requests an acknowledgment of the filing, the filing office shall send to the person an image of...
  • Section 9524.
    Delay by the filing office beyond a time limit prescribed by this chapter is excused if both of the following conditions are satisfied:(1) The delay is...
  • Section 9525.
    (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (d), the fee for filing and indexing a record under this chapter is set forth in subdivisions (a), (b),...
  • Section 9526.
    (a) The Secretary of State shall adopt and publish rules to implement this division. The filing-office rules shall be consistent with this division.(b) To keep the filing-office...
  • Section 9526.5.
    (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:(1) “Official filing” means the permanent archival filing of all instruments, papers, records, and attachments...
  • Section 9528.
    Upon the request of any person, the Secretary of State shall issue a combined certificate showing the information as to financing statements as specified in...

Last modified: October 22, 2018