70A-9a-501 - Filing office. - Utah Statutes

70A-9a-501. Filing office.
(1) Except as otherwise provided in Subsection (2), if the local law of this state governsperfection of a security interest or agricultural lien, the office in which to file a financingstatement to perfect the security interest or agricultural lien is:
(a) the office designated for the filing or recording of a record of a mortgage on therelated 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 that are orare to become fixtures; or
(b) the Division of Corporations and Commercial Code, in all other cases, including acase in which the collateral is goods that are or are to become fixtures and the financing statementis not filed as a fixture filing.
(2) The office in which to file a financing statement to perfect a security interest incollateral, including fixtures, of a transmitting utility is the Division of Corporations andCommercial Code. The financing statement also constitutes a fixture filing as to the collateralindicated in the financing statement which is or is to become fixtures.

Enacted by Chapter 252, 2000 General Session