(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2) of this section, if the local law of this Commonwealth 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 record of a mortgage on the related real property, if:

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 355.9-501

  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010

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.
Effective: July 1, 2001
History: Repealed and reenacted 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 408, sec. 92, effective July 1, 2001.
— Amended 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 118, sec. 82, effective July 1, 1987. — Amended 1962
Ky. Acts ch. 83, sec. 14. — Created 1958 Ky. Acts ch. 77, sec. 9-501.