Filing office

1. Law
2. Mississippi Code
3. Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments
4. Uniform Commercial Code-Secured Transactions
5. Filing
6. Filing Office; Contents and Effectiveness of Financing Statement
7. Filing office

Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), if the local 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:

1. The office designated for the filing or recording of a record of a mortgage on the related real property, if:
2. 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.

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

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

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.

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