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...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, 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: (a) The collateral is as-extracted collateral...

...A financing statement sufficiently indicates the collateral that it covers if the financing statement provides: (A) A description of the collateral pursuant to section 1309.108 of the Revised Code; or (B) An indication that the financing statement covers all assets or all personal property.

...(A) A financing statement that substantially satisfies the requirements of sections 1309.501 to 1309.527 of the Revised Code is effective, even if it has minor errors or omissions, unless the errors or omissions make the financing statement seriously misleading. (B) Except as otherwise provided in division (C) of this section, a financing statement that fails sufficiently to provide the name of the debtor in accord...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a filed financing statement naming an original debtor is effective to perfect a security interest in collateral in which a new debtor has or acquires rights to the extent that the financing statement would have been effective had the original debtor acquired rights in the collateral. (B) If the difference between the name of the original debtor and that of the new de...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in divisions (B), (E), (F), and (G) of this section, a filed financing statement is effective for a period of five years after the date of filing. (B) Except as otherwise provided in divisions (E), (F), and (G) of this section, an initial financing statement filed in connection with a public-finance transaction or manufactured-home transaction is effective for a period of thir...

...The failure of the filing office to index a record correctly does not affect the effectiveness of the filed record.

...(A) A filing office shall refuse to accept a record for filing for a reason specified in division (B) of section 1309.516 of the Revised Code and may refuse to accept a record for filing only for a reason specified in that division. However, the secretary of state's office shall redact social security and employer identification numbers from filings posted on its web site. (B) If a filing office refuses to accept a ...

...(A) A filing office that accepts written records may not refuse to accept a written initial financing statement in the form and format set forth in the official text of the 2010 amendments to article 9 of the uniform commercial code promulgated by the American law institute and the national conference of commissioners on uniform state laws, except for a reason prescribed in division (B) of section 1309.516 of t...

...Delay by the filing office beyond a time limit prescribed by sections 1309.501 to 1309.527 of the Revised Code is excused if: (A) The delay is caused by interruption of communication or computer facilities, war, emergency conditions, failure of equipment, or other circumstances beyond control of the filing office; and (B) The filing office exercises reasonable diligence under the circumstances.

...(A) The secretary of state shall adopt rules to implement this chapter. The filing-office rules shall be: (1) Consistent with this chapter; and (2) Adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. (B) To keep the filing-office rules and practices of the filing office in harmony with the rules and practices of filing offices in other jurisdictions that enact substantially sections 1309.501 to 1309.527 o...

...The secretary of state shall report by December 31 in each even-numbered year to the general assembly on the operation of the filing office. The report shall contain a statement of the extent to which: (A) The filing-office rules are not in harmony with the rules of filing offices in other jurisdictions that enact substantially sections 1309.501 to 1309.527 of the Revised Code and the reasons for these variations;...

...All fees collected by the secretary of state for filings under Title XIII or XVII of the Revised Code shall be deposited into the state treasury to the credit of the corporate and uniform commercial code filing fund, which is hereby created. The fund shall also receive revenue from fees charged to customers for special database requests. All moneys credited to the fund shall be used for the purpose of paying for the ...

...(A) The secretary of state shall distribute to the county recorders of the counties of this state an amount equal to the fees collected by the secretary of state for filing and indexing financing statements communicated to the office of the secretary of state in writing under division (A) of section 1309.525 of the Revised Code, to the extent that the general assembly appropriates money for that purpose, multiplied b...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, whether a notification is sent within a reasonable time is a question of fact. (B) A notification of disposition sent after default and ten days or more before the earliest time of disposition set forth in the notification is sent within a reasonable time before the disposition.

...(A) A debtor or secondary obligor may waive the right to notification of disposition of collateral under section 1309.611 of the Revised Code only by an agreement to that effect entered into and authenticated after default. (B) A debtor may waive the right to require disposition of collateral under division (E) of section 1309.620 of the Revised Code only by an agreement to that effect entered into and authenticated...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, this chapter applies to a transaction or lien within the scope of this chapter even if the transaction or lien was entered into or created before July 1, 2001. (B) Except as otherwise provided in division (C) of this section and sections 1309.703 to 1309.709 of the Revised Code: (1) Transactions or liens that were not governed by this chapter as it existed before J...

...(A) A security interest that is enforceable immediately before July 1, 2001, and that would have priority over the rights of a person who becomes a lien creditor at that time is a perfected security interest under this chapter if, on July 1, 2001, the applicable requirements for enforceability and perfection under this chapter are satisfied without further action. (B) Except as otherwise provided in section 1309.70...

...A security interest that is enforceable immediately before July 1, 2001, but that would be subordinate to the rights of a person that becomes a lien creditor at that time: (A) Remains an enforceable security interest until July 1, 2002; (B) Remains enforceable after July 1, 2002, if the security interest becomes enforceable under section 1309.203 of the Revised Code on July 1, 2001, or by July 1, 2002; and (C) Be...

...(A) If action, other than the filing of a financing statement, is taken before July 1, 2001, and if the action would have resulted in priority of a security interest over the rights of a person who becomes a lien creditor had the security interest become enforceable before that date, the action is effective to perfect a security interest that attaches under this chapter within one year after that date. An attached se...

...(A) The filing of an initial financing statement in the office specified in section 1309.501 of the Revised Code continues the effectiveness of a financing statement filed before July 1, 2001, if: (1) The filing of an initial financing statement in that office would be effective to perfect a security interest under this chapter. (2) The financing statement filed before July 1, 2001, was filed in an office in anoth...

...(A) As used in this section, "pre-effective-date financing statement" means a financing statement filed before July 1, 2001. (B) On or after July 1, 2001, a person may add or delete collateral covered by, continue or terminate the effectiveness of, or otherwise amend the information provided in, a pre-effective-date financing statement only in accordance with the law of the jurisdiction governing perfection as prov...

...(A) This chapter determines the priority of conflicting claims to collateral. However, if the relative priorities of the claims were established before July 1, 2001, the law in effect at the time the priorities of the claims were established determines priority. (B) For purposes of division (A) of section 1309.322 of the Revised Code, as it exists on July 1, 2001, the priority of a security interest that becomes en...