Okla. Stat. tit. 12A, § 12A-1-9-320.6

CENTRAL FILING SYSTEM RELATING TO FARM PRODUCTS

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(1) The Oklahoma County Clerk shall be responsible for

developing and maintaining the central filing system. This

responsibility shall include obtaining the necessary certification

for the system from the United States Department of Agriculture

(USDA). The effective date for the implementation of the central

filing system shall be one hundred eighty (180) days from the

certification of the central filing system by the USDA.

(2) The Oklahoma County Clerk may promulgate, in accordance

with laws governing business within its office, appropriate rules

and practices of the filing office in harmony with the rules and

practices of filing offices in other jurisdictions that enact

substantially this part and to keep the technology used by the

filing office compatible with the technology used by filing offices

in other jurisdictions that enact substantially this part. The

Oklahoma County Clerk, so far as is consistent with the purposes,

policies, and provisions of this article in adopting, amending, and

repealing filing office rules, shall:

(a) consult with filing offices in other jurisdictions

that enact substantially this part,

(b) consult the International Association of Commercial

Administrators or any successor organization, and

(c) take into consideration the rules and practices of,

and the technology used by, filing offices in other

jurisdictions that enact substantially this part, for

the implementation and operation of the central filing

system.

(3) The central filing system shall conform to the following

requirements:

(a) The Oklahoma County Clerk shall record the date, hour,

minute, and second of the filing of each effective

financing statement;

(b) The Oklahoma County Clerk shall compile all effective

financing statements into a master list:

(i) organized according to farm products;

(ii) arranged within each such product:

(A) in alphabetical order according to the last

name of the individual debtors or, in the

case of debtors doing business other than as

individuals, the first word in the name of

the debtors;

(B) in numerical order according to the Social

Security number of the individual debtors

or, in the case of debtors doing business

other than as individuals, the Internal

Revenue Service taxpayer identification

number of the debtors;

(C) geographically by county produced; and

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(D) by crop year; and

(iii) containing the information provided for in

subparagraph (iv) of paragraph (d) of Section 1-

9-320.2 of this title.

(c) The Oklahoma County Clerk shall maintain records of

all buyers of farm products, commission merchants,

selling agents and others who register with the

Oklahoma County Clerk, on a form containing:

(i) the name and address of each registrant;

(ii) the information on the farm product or products

that the registrant is requesting;

(iii) the name of each county where the product is

produced or to be produced, or a blanket code

covering all seventy-seven (77) counties of this

state; and

(iv) an authorized signature.
hers who register with the

Oklahoma County Clerk, on a form containing:

(i) the name and address of each registrant;

(ii) the information on the farm product or products

that the registrant is requesting;

(iii) the name of each county where the product is

produced or to be produced, or a blanket code

covering all seventy-seven (77) counties of this

state; and

(iv) an authorized signature.

(d) (i) A copy of those portions of the master list

covering the information requested by a

registrant shall be distributed to such

registrants by the Oklahoma County Clerk on or

before the last business day of each month and

shall be presumed to have been received by the

third business day of the following month.

(ii) Registrants shall be deemed to be registered only

as to those portions of the master list for which

they register, and shall be deemed to have failed

to register and shall not be considered to be

registrants as to those portions for which they

do not register.

(iii) Registrants are subject only to security

interests shown on the portions of the master

list which they receive as a consequence of

registration with the Oklahoma County Clerk.

(iv) If a particular security interest is shown on the

master list, but was included since the last

regular distribution of portions of the master

list to registrants, registrants shall not be

subject to that security interest;

(e) The duration of the registration with the Oklahoma

County Clerk of a buyer of farm products, commission

merchant, selling agent or other registrant shall be

one (1) year from the effective date of the

registration with the Oklahoma County Clerk.

(f) (i) Upon request, within twenty-four (24) hours of

any inquiry, for information, the Oklahoma County

Clerk shall provide confirmation of the existence

or nonexistence of any effective financing

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statement on file. By the close of the business

day following the day on which the request was

received, written confirmation of the existence

of an effective financing statement will be

provided to buyers of farm products, commission

merchants, and selling agents who have not

registered, and others who request it.

(ii) The state or political subdivision shall not be

liable if a loss or claim results from any

confirmation of the existence or nonexistence of

any effective financing statement on file in the

Oklahoma County Clerk’s office made in good faith

by an employee of the Oklahoma County Clerk’s

office as required by the provisions of this

section.

(4) The filing in the office of the Oklahoma County Clerk under

this section shall be in addition to the filing requirements

provided for in this article.

(5) A financing or continuation statement covering farm

products that has not lapsed and which was filed pursuant to this

title between December 23, 1986, and October 24, 1988, inclusive,

and for which no written notice was furnished as provided in Section

1-9-320.7 of this title, shall become ineffective as to a buyer of

farm products, commission merchant or selling agent, unless the

secured party files an effective financing statement in the office

of the Oklahoma County Clerk.

(6) An effective financing statement shall not be deemed filed

in accordance with the provisions of this section until all fees

authorized by Section 111 of Title 28 of the Oklahoma Statutes

relating to the filing of the statement are tendered to the Oklahoma

County Clerk.
ling agent, unless the

secured party files an effective financing statement in the office

of the Oklahoma County Clerk.

(6) An effective financing statement shall not be deemed filed

in accordance with the provisions of this section until all fees

authorized by Section 111 of Title 28 of the Oklahoma Statutes

relating to the filing of the statement are tendered to the Oklahoma

County Clerk.

(7) The secured party shall file a termination statement within

twenty (20) days after there is no outstanding secured obligation or

commitment to make advances, incur obligations or otherwise give

value. The termination statement shall refer to the unique document

ID number. The secured party shall not be required to file a

termination statement if the debtor, in writing, addressed to the

secured party, requests that a termination not be filed. The

request shall be signed by the debtor or an authorized

representative and the request may be made at any time prior to the

expiration date of an effective financing statement set forth

herein. If the affected secured party fails to file a termination

statement as required by this subsection, the party shall be liable

to the Oklahoma County Clerk for Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00). In

addition the affected secured party shall be liable to the debtor

for any loss caused to the debtor by the failure to terminate the

effective financing statement.

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(8) The Oklahoma County District Attorney shall be responsible

for enforcing the provisions of subsection (7) of this section on

behalf of the Oklahoma County Clerk and is authorized to take

appropriate actions to collect any penalties owed to the Oklahoma

County Clerk pursuant to subsection (7) of this section. When

collected, the Oklahoma County District Attorney shall cause the

penalty to be deposited into the Oklahoma County Clerk’s Uniform

Commercial Code Central Filing Fund created pursuant to Section 1-9-

525.1 of Title 12A of the Oklahoma Statutes.

(9) As the purpose of an effective financing statement filing

is to ensure that a joint check is made payable to the debtor and

all applicable secured parties, there shall be no priority among

filings. Filings shall be processed according to the order in which

they were filed, as recorded in a timestamp within the filing.

(10) All active filings on the effective date of this act, as

provided in paragraph (1) of this section, shall be filed with the

Oklahoma County Clerk’s office. Each active filing that is filed

pursuant to the requirements of this paragraph shall be accompanied

with a transition document that shall be provided by the Oklahoma

County Clerk’s office. The Oklahoma County Clerk’s office shall

charge no fee for active filings that are migrated to the system

maintained by the Oklahoma County Clerk.