§ 9501 (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), if the …
§ 9502 (a) Subject to subdivision (b), a financing statement is …
§ 9503 (a) A financing statement sufficiently provides the name of the …
§ 9504 A financing statement sufficiently indicates the collateral that it …
§ 9505 (a) A consignor, lessor, or other bailor of goods, a licensor, …
§ 9506 (a) A financing statement substantially satisfying the …
§ 9507 (a) A filed financing statement remains effective with respect …
§ 9508 (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a filed …
§ 9509 (a) A person may file an initial financing statement, an …
§ 9510 (a) A filed record is effective only to the extent that it was …
§ 9511 (a) A secured party of record with respect to a financing …
§ 9512 (a) Subject to Section 9509, a person may add or delete …
§ 9513 (a) A secured party shall cause the secured party of record for …
§ 9514 (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (c), an initial …
§ 9515 (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivisions (b), (e), (f), …
§ 9516 (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), …
§ 9517 The failure of the filing office to index a record correctly does not …
§ 9518 (a) A person may file in the filing office an information …
§ 9519 (a) For each record filed in a filing office, the filing office …
§ 9520 (a) A filing office shall refuse to accept a record for filing …
§ 9521 (a) A filing office that accepts written records may not refuse …
§ 9522 (a) The filing office shall maintain a record of the information …
§ 9523 (a) If a person that files a written record requests an …
§ 9524 Delay by the filing office beyond a time limit prescribed by this …
§ 9525 (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (d), the fee for …
§ 9526 (a) The Secretary of State shall adopt and publish rules to …
§ 9526.5 (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the …
§ 9528 Upon the request of any person, the Secretary of State shall issue a …

Terms Used In California Codes > Commercial Code > Division 9 > Chapter 5 - Filing

  • agreement: means the total legal obligation that results from the parties' agreement as determined by this code and as supplemented by any other applicable laws. See California Commercial Code 1201
  • Allegation: something that someone says happened.
  • Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
  • board: means the California State Board of Optometry. See California Business and Professions Code 3004
  • Classification: means that each position in the classified service shall have a designated title, a regular minimum number of assigned hours per day, days per week, and months per year, a specific statement of the duties required to be performed by the employees in each such position, and the regular monthly salary ranges for each such position. See California Education Code 88001
  • Commissioner: means any county agricultural commissioner. See California Food and Agricultural Code 26
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • County: includes city and county. See California Food and Agricultural Code 29
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Disciplinary action: includes any action whereby an employee is deprived of any classification or any incident of any classification in which he or she has permanence, including dismissal, suspension, demotion, or any reassignment, without his or her voluntary consent, except a layoff for lack of work or lack of funds. See California Education Code 88001
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • Jurisprudence: The study of law and the structure of the legal system.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Licensee: means any person authorized by a license, certificate, registration, or other means to engage in a business or profession regulated by this code or referred to in Sections 1000 and 3600. See California Business and Professions Code 23.8
  • Licensing board: means any board, as defined in Section 22, the State Bar of California, and the Department of Real Estate. See California Business and Professions Code 30
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
  • Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
  • optometrist: means a person who is licensed to practice optometry in this state under the authority of this chapter. See California Business and Professions Code 3003
  • Organization: means a person other than an individual. See California Commercial Code 1201
  • permanent employee: includes tenure in the classification in which the employee passed the required probationary period and includes all of the incidents of that classification. See California Education Code 88001
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, government, governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See California Commercial Code 1201
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • Purchaser: means a person that takes by purchase. See California Commercial Code 1201
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See California Commercial Code 1201
  • Representative: means a person empowered to act for another, including an agent, an officer of a corporation or association, and a trustee, executor, or administrator of an estate. See California Commercial Code 1201
  • Security interest: includes any interest of a consignor and a buyer of accounts, chattel paper, a payment intangible, or a promissory note in a transaction that is subject to Division 9 (commencing with Section 9101). See California Commercial Code 1201
  • Spouse: includes "registered domestic partner" as required by §. See California Business and Professions Code 14.2
  • State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See California Commercial Code 1201
  • State Board of Optometry: shall be deemed to refer to the "California State Board of Optometry. See California Business and Professions Code 3004
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
  • Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. Source: OCC
  • Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
  • Writing: includes printing, typewriting, or any other intentional reduction to tangible form. See California Commercial Code 1201