§ 10:9-310 — When filing required to perfect security interest or agricultural lien; security

§9-310. When filing required to perfect security interest or agricultural lien; security
interests and agricultural liens to which filing provisions do not apply
(a) General rule: perfection by filing. Except as otherwise provided in Subsection
(b) and R.S. 10:9-312(b), a financing statement must be filed to perfect all security interests
and agricultural liens.
(b) Exceptions: filing not necessary. The filing of a financing statement is not
necessary to perfect a security interest:
(1) that is perfected under R.S. 10:9-308(d), (e), (f), or (g);
(2) that is perfected under R.S. 10:9-309 when it attaches;
(3) in property subject to a statute, regulation, or treaty described in R.S. 10:9-311(a);
(4) in goods in possession of a bailee when the security interest is perfected under
R.S. 10:9-312(d)(1) or (2);
(5) in certificated securities, documents, goods, or instruments other than collateral
mortgage notes which is perfected without filing, control, or possession under R.S. 10:9-312(e), (f), or (g);
(6) in collateral including a collateral mortgage note in the secured party's possession
under R.S. 10:9-313;
(7) in a certificated security when the security interest is perfected by delivery of the
security certificate to the secured party under R.S. 10:9-313;
(8) in controllable accounts, controllable electronic records, controllable payment
intangibles, deposit accounts, electronic documents, investment property, letter-of-credit
rights, or life insurance policies when the security interest is perfected by control under R.S.
10:9-314;
(8.1) in chattel paper which is perfected by possession and control under R.S.
10:9-314.1;
(9) in proceeds which is perfected under R.S. 10:9-315; or
(10) that is perfected under R.S. 10:9-316.
(c) Assignment of perfected security interest. If a secured party assigns a perfected
security interest or agricultural lien, a filing under this Chapter is not required to continue the
perfected status of the security interest against creditors of and transferees from the original
debtor.

Legislative History

Acts 1988, No. 528, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990; Acts 1995, No. 1201, §3, eff. June 29, 1995; Acts 2001, No. 128, §1, eff. July 1, 2001; Acts 2009, No. 207, §5, eff. Jan. 1, 2010; Acts 2024, No. 773, §1.