The following forms are to be used strictly for filing pursuant to the USDA Food Security Act – Central Registry Program. These are dual purpose forms. Completing these forms in their entirety will both perfect your security interest and protect the filing from buyers of farm products.
All filing fees must be made payable to the filing office (one of the 64 Clerks of Court) with whom you are filing your UCC financing statement. Do not send your filing or your filing fee to the Secretary of State’s Office.
Fees reflected below include a $5 prepaid termination fee.
UCC-1 (one debtor)
Fee
Financing Statement
$30
Financing Statement with Assignment
$35
Financing Statement relative to “as extracted collateral” or fixture filing
$40
Financing Statement (Transmitting Utility)
$205
Financing Statement (Transmitting Utility and fixture filing)
$215
Financing Statement (Public Finance Transaction)
$105
Financing Statement (Public Finance Transaction and fixture filing)
$115
Attachments (each)
$2
Additional Debtor Names (each)
$10
Non-standard* Form Fee
$15
*Anything other than the National Financing Statement forms or the Louisiana Financing Statement forms
UCC-3 (one debtor)
Fee
Amendment
$25
Continuation
$25
Assignment
$25
Master Assignment/Amendment (each)
$5
Termination ($5 per debtor name paid at time of original filing)
N/A
Additional debtors named on original (each)
$5
UCC-5
Fee
Information Statement
$25
UCC-11 Search
Fee
UCC Certificate* (per debtor name)
$30
Copies of documents (per page)
$2
Certification of copies (each)
$5
*Additional $1 for each listing more than ten
UCC-1F and UCC-3F Central Registry Filings
Fee
UCC and Crop filing
$35*
Crop filing
$20*
Amendments, Continuations, Assignments
$20*
*These are flat fees. No additional charges are assessed for additional debtors and/or attachments.
