104.9501 - Filing office. - Nevada Statutes

104.9501  Filing office.

      1.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, if the law of this State 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:

      (a) The office designated for the filing or recording of a mortgage on the real property, if:

             (1) The collateral is as-extracted collateral or timber to be cut; or

             (2) The financing statement is filed as a fixture filing and the collateral is goods that are or are to become fixtures; or

      (b) The Office of the Secretary of State in all other cases, including a case in which the collateral is goods that are or are to become fixtures and the financing statement is not filed as a fixture filing.

      2.  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 State. The financing statement also constitutes a fixture filing as to the collateral indicated in the financing statement which is or is to become fixtures.

      (Added to NRS by 1999, 328; A 2007, 2447)