§ 3:3656 — Filing, amendment, assignment, partial release, termination, and cancellation of security devices and effective financing statements; effectiveness against third parties

A.(1) The proper place to file effective financing statements is with the clerk of court of any parish.
(2) Any statement of continuation, amendment, release, extension, termination, cancellation, or other similar statement pertaining to an effective financing statement shall identify the original file number and shall be filed with the same filing officer with whom the effective financing statement was originally filed.
(3) The signature of the debtor or of the secured party is not required for filing any effective financing statement, amendment statement, continuation statement, assignment, release, termination statement, or other similar statement filed.
B. Each effective financing statement and continuation statement, assignment, release, termination statement, or other similar statement filed, shall be marked by the filing officer with a file number and with the date and hour of filing. The filing officer shall hold the effective financing or other statement, or a microfilm or other photographic copy thereof, together with any attachments, for public inspection. In addition, the filing officer shall transmit the information contained in each effective financing statement, or other statement, no later than 4:30 p.m. on the second business day following the filing, to the secretary for inclusion in the central registry. The secretary shall, within two business days following the receipt of such information, include it in the central registry and send written notice confirming such receipt and reflecting all information received and included in the central registry, to the secured party of record and such other requesting person or persons as may be designated on the effective financing statement or other statement.
C. The filing officer shall accept and record only effective financing statements and other statements, which apply to security devices applicable to farm products.
D. The central registry shall reflect the time and date each effective financing statement and other statement is filed. Only a security device with respect to which an effective financing statement has been filed with the filing officer for inclusion in the central registry, as provided in this Chapter, shall be effective against buyers in the ordinary course of business. Except as otherwise provided in this Section, each security device shall become effective against buyers in the ordinary course of business on the date and at the time an effective financing statement with respect to the security device is filed with the filing officer.
E. Each person who files an effective financing statement with the filing officer shall request cancellation thereof within ten calendar days after the date the person who has granted or who is affected by the effective financing statement or security interest thereunder requests in writing cancellation, provided the effective financing statement and security interest thereunder are then no longer in effect.
F. Whenever there is no outstanding secured obligation and no commitment to make advances, incur obligations, or otherwise give value, the secured party must on written demand by the debtor send the debtor, for each effective financing statement filed, a termination statement to the effect that he no longer claims a security interest under the effective financing statement.

Legislative History

Acts 1989, No. 548, §1, eff. Aug. 22, 1989; Acts 1990, No. 123, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1991; Acts 1991, No. 539, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; Acts 2004, No. 63, §2 and 3, eff. Feb. 13, 2006; Acts 2010, No. 378, §1.