Delaware Code
Part 5. Filing
§ 9-501. Filing office.

(a) Filing offices. — Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), 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 or timber to be cut; or
(B) the financing statement is filed as a fixture filing and the collateral is goods that are or are to become fixtures; or
(2) the office of the Secretary of State, in all other cases, including a case in which the collateral is goods that are or are to become fixtures and the financing statement is not filed as a fixture filing.
(b) Filing office for transmitting utilities. — The office in which to file a financing statement to perfect a security interest in collateral, including fixtures, of a transmitting utility is the office of the Secretary of State. The financing statement also constitutes a fixture filing as to the collateral indicated in the financing statement which is or is to become fixtures.

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Title 6 - Commerce and Trade

Article 9. Secured Transactions

Part 5. Filing

§ 9-501. Filing office.

§ 9-502. Contents of financing statement; record of mortgage as financing statement; time of filing financing statement.

§ 9-503. Name of debtor and secured party.

§ 9-504. Indication of collateral.

§ 9-504A. Indication of collateral that is accounts, chattel paper, instruments or general intangibles.

§ 9-505. Filing and compliance with other statutes and treaties for consignments, leases, other bailments, and other transactions.

§ 9-506. Effect of errors or omissions.

§ 9-507. Effect of certain events on effectiveness of financing statement.

§ 9-508. Effectiveness of financing statement if new debtor becomes bound by security agreement.

§ 9-509. Persons entitled to file a record.

§ 9-510. Effectiveness of filed record.

§ 9-511. Secured party of record.

§ 9-512. Amendment of financing statement.

§ 9-513. Termination statement.

§ 9-514. Assignment of powers of secured party of record.

§ 9-515. Duration and effectiveness of financing statement; effect of lapsed financing statement.

§ 9-516. What constitutes filing; effectiveness of filing.

§ 9-517. Effect of indexing errors.

§ 9-518. Claim concerning inaccurate or wrongfully filed record.

§ 9-519. Numbering, maintaining, and indexing records; communicating information provided in records.

§ 9-520. Acceptance and refusal to accept record.

§ 9-521. Uniform form of written financing statement and amendment.

§ 9-522. Maintenance and destruction of records.

§ 9-523. Information from filing office; sale or license of records.

§ 9-524. Delay by filing office.

§ 9-525. Fees.

§ 9-526. Filing-office rules.