Cal. COM § 9525
This is the official text of Cal. COM § 9525, part of California’s Commercial Code — california's version of the Uniform Commercial Code, governing sales, negotiable instruments, and secured transactions.
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Official statutory text
(a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (d), the fee for filing and indexing a record under this chapter is set forth in subdivisions (a), (b), and (c) of Section 12194 of the Government Code.
(b) The number of names required to be indexed does not affect the amount of the fee in subdivision (a).
(c) The fee for responding to a request for information from the filing office, including for issuing a certificate showing whether there is on file any financing statement naming a particular debtor, is as follows:
(1) Ten dollars ($10) if the request is communicated in writing.
(2) Five dollars ($5) if the request is communicated by another medium authorized by a rule adopted by the filing office.
(d) This section does not require a fee with respect to a record of a mortgage which is effective as a financing statement filed as a fixture filing or as a financing statement covering as-extracted collateral or timber to be cut under subdivision (c) of Section 9502. However, the recording and satisfaction fees that otherwise would be applicable to the record of the mortgage apply.
(b) The number of names required to be indexed does not affect the amount of the fee in subdivision (a).
(c) The fee for responding to a request for information from the filing office, including for issuing a certificate showing whether there is on file any financing statement naming a particular debtor, is as follows:
(1) Ten dollars ($10) if the request is communicated in writing.
(2) Five dollars ($5) if the request is communicated by another medium authorized by a rule adopted by the filing office.
(d) This section does not require a fee with respect to a record of a mortgage which is effective as a financing statement filed as a fixture filing or as a financing statement covering as-extracted collateral or timber to be cut under subdivision (c) of Section 9502. However, the recording and satisfaction fees that otherwise would be applicable to the record of the mortgage apply.
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