Ohio Code 1309.525 – Fees – UCC 9-525
(A) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, the fee for filing and indexing a record under sections 1309.501 to 1309.527 of the Revised Code is twelve dollars.
Terms Used In Ohio Code 1309.525
- Another: when used to designate the owner of property which is the subject of an offense, includes not only natural persons but also every other owner of property. See Ohio Code 1.02
- As-extracted collateral: means :
(a) Oil, gas, or other minerals that are subject to a security interest that:
(i) Is created by a debtor having an interest in the minerals before extraction; and
(ii) Attaches to the minerals as extracted; or
(b) Accounts arising out of the sale at the wellhead or minehead of oil, gas, or other minerals in which the debtor had an interest before extraction. See Ohio Code 1309.102
- Debtor: means :
(a) A person having an interest, other than a security interest or other lien, in the collateral, whether or not the person is an obligor;
(b) A seller of accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, or promissory notes; or
(c) A consignee. See Ohio Code 1309.102
- Filing office: means an office designated in section 1309. See Ohio Code 1309.102
- Financing statement: means a record composed of an initial financing statement and any filed record or records relating to the initial financing statement. See Ohio Code 1309.102
- Fixture filing: includes the filing of a financing statement covering goods of a transmitting utility that are or are to become fixtures. See Ohio Code 1309.102
- in writing: includes any representation of words, letters, symbols, or figures; this provision does not affect any law relating to signatures. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
- Mortgage: means a consensual interest in real property, including fixtures, that secures payment or performance of an obligation. See Ohio Code 1309.102
- Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Rule: includes regulation. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Secured party: means :
(a) A person in whose favor a security interest is created or provided for under a security agreement, whether or not any obligation to be secured is outstanding;
(b) A person that holds an agricultural lien;
(c) A consignor;
(d) A person to whom accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, or promissory notes have been sold;
(e) A trustee, indenture trustee, agent, collateral agent, or other representative in whose favor a security interest or agricultural lien is created or provided for; or
(f) A person who holds a security interest arising under section 1302. See Ohio Code 1309.102
- State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Ohio Code 1309.102
(B) The fee for responding to a request for information from the filing office, including for communicating whether there is on file any financing statement naming a particular debtor is:
(1) Twenty dollars if the request is communicated in writing, and ;
(2) Twenty dollars if the request is communicated by another medium authorized by the filing office rule.
However, the fee otherwise required under division (B) of this section is five dollars if the request is limited to communicating only whether there is on file any financing statement naming a particular debtor and the name of the secured party or record relating thereto. Division (B) of this section does not require that a fee be charged for remote access searching of the filing office data base.
(C) This section does not require a fee with respect to a record of a mortgage that 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 division (C) of section 1309.502 of the Revised Code. However, the recording and satisfaction fees that otherwise would be applicable to the record of the mortgage apply.
(D) Any person may request from the secretary of state a copy of any financing statement naming a particular debtor, owner, or lessee, and of any statement of assignment of the financing agreement, that is on file with the secretary of state. The request shall be made in writing to the secretary of state, and the secretary of state shall charge and collect a fee of five dollars for each copy requested.
The Legislative Service Commission presents the text of this section as a composite of the section as amended by multiple acts of the General Assembly. This presentation recognizes the principle stated in R.C. 1.52(B) that amendments are to be harmonized if reasonably capable of simultaneous operation.