Did You Know?

News of the Weird: UCC Edition

Did you know that Georgia doesn’t have a central filing office? Pick your favorite county and your lien will be added to a central indexing system for searching purposes! Same goes for Louisiana parishes.

Did you know that Wyoming has a non-uniform ten-year effective period for their financing statements?

Did you know that Tennessee requires the filer pay a recordation tax in addition to their standard filing fees?

Did you know that Delaware will expedite your UCC filings with a one- hour turnaround for the cool cost of $1,000 in addition to their standard filing fees?

Did you know that South Dakota still requires the inclusion of social security numbers and federal tax IDs on their UCCs? But be careful! It’s illegal to include this information in other jurisdictions!

Did you know that Illinois requires the use of ten-point font on its financing statements?

Did you know that Delaware, New Jersey, North Dakota, West Virginia, Colorado, Mississippi, and Vermont no longer accept paper submissions of UCC filings? These states strictly e-file now.

Did you know that our online UCC Filing Manager remembers all of these oddities so that you don’t have to?