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Okla. Stat. tit. 12A, § 12A-1-9-710

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Duties of local-filing offices

Official statutory text

(a) In this section:

(1) “Local-filing office” means a filing office, other than the

statewide filing office in the office of the County Clerk of

Oklahoma County or the statewide filing office in the office of the

Secretary of State, that is designated as the proper place to file a

financing statement under former Article 9 of this title;

(2) (A) “Former-Article 9 records” means:

(i) financing statements and other records that have

been filed in a local-filing office before July

1, 2001, and that are, or upon processing and

indexing will be, reflected in the index

maintained by the local-filing office for filing

for financing statements and other records filed

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in the local-filing office before July 1, 2001,

and

(ii) the index maintained by the local-filing office

as of June 30, 2001, including entries for

filings completed before July 1, 2001, even

though processed on or after that date.

(B) “Former-Article 9 records” do not include records

presented to a local-filing office for filing after

June 30, 2001, whether or not the records relate to

financing statements filed in the local-filing office

before July 1, 2001; and

(3) “Mortgage”, “as-extracted collateral”, “fixture filing”,

“goods” and “fixtures” have the meanings set forth in this article

of this title.

(b) A local-filing office shall not accept for filing a record

presented after June 30, 2001, whether or not the record relates to

a financing statement filed in the local-filing office before July

1, 2001.

(c) Until July 1, 2008, each local-filing office shall maintain

all former-Article 9 records in accordance with former-Article 9. A

former-Article 9 record which is filed before July 1, 2001, but

which is not reflected on the index maintained as of June 30, 2001,

by the local-filing office, shall be processed and indexed and

reflected on the index maintained as of June 30, 2001, as soon as

practicable, but in no event later than July 30, 2001.

(d) Until July 1, 2008, each local-filing office shall respond

to requests for information with respect to former-Article 9 records

relating to a debtor and shall issue certificates in accordance with

former-Article 9. The fees for issuing a certificate or for

furnishing a certified copy of a former-Article 9 record shall be

the uniform fees provided by subsections (c) and (d) of Section 1-9-

525 of this title.

(e) After June 30, 2008, each local-filing office may remove

and destroy all former-Article 9 records pursuant to Section 155.2

of Title 19 of the Oklahoma Statutes.

(f) This section shall not apply, with respect to financing

statements and other records, to a filing office in which mortgages

or records of mortgages on real property are required to be filed or

recorded if:

(1) the collateral is timber to be cut or as-extracted

collateral, or

(2) the record is or relates to a financing statement files as

a fixture filing and the collateral is goods that are or are to

become fixtures.

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