Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3657 – Fees
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3657
- Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
- Central registry: means the master index maintained by the secretary as provided by this Chapter, reflecting information contained in all effective financing statements, and statements evidencing assignments, amendments, extensions, and cancellations thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3652
- Effective financing statement: means a written instrument which is an abstract of a security device and which complies with the provisions of La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3652
- Encumbrance: means any lien, privilege, judgment, mortgage, pledge, pawn, claim, charge, or any other encumbrance of like nature. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1
- Encumbrance certificate: means a written document which lists all effective financing statements affecting a person which have been filed with the filing officer and containing the information required by this Chapter to be transmitted to the secretary for inclusion in the central registry on the date and at the time the certificate is issued and which complies with the provisions of La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3652
- Filing officer: means the clerk of court of any parish. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3652
- Secretary: means the secretary of state of the state of Louisiana, or his duly authorized agent. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3652
A.(1) The fee for filing, recording, and cancelling each effective financing statement shall be twenty dollars. The fee for filing, recording, and cancelling each effective financing statement which contains additional information sufficient to constitute a financing statement under Chapter 9 of Title 10 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 shall be thirty-five dollars. The secretary shall be entitled to seven dollars of the fee charged by the filing officer for the filing, recording, and cancelling of each effective financing statement or other statement filed pursuant to this Chapter.
(2) The fee for filing each amendment, assignment, release, continuation, or other similar statement pertaining to an effective financing statement shall be twenty dollars. The secretary shall be entitled to seven dollars of the fee charged by the filing officer for the filing and recordation of each such statement.
(3) The fee for the issuance of each encumbrance certificate shall be fifteen dollars. The secretary shall be entitled to five dollars of the fee charged by the filing officer for each encumbrance certificate issued pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter.
B. Beginning in February of 1991, on or before the tenth day of each month, the filing officer shall remit to the secretary that portion of the fees allocable to the secretary which was received by the filing officer during the preceding month.
C. The secretary by rule shall establish fees to fund the operation of the central registry. The fees established by the secretary shall be based on the cost of operating the central registry. The fees shall be limited to fees for:
(1) Issuance of the master list as required by Section 1324 of the Food Security Act of 1985, P.L. 99-198*, as amended.
(2) Allowing access to the computerized information in the central registry to the extent authorized by La. Rev. Stat. 3:3654(C).
Acts 1987, No. 451, §1, eff. Oct. 1, 1987; Acts 1989, No. 548, §1, eff. Aug. 22, 1989; Acts 1990, No. 123, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1991.
*7 U.S.C.A. §1631.