In any county of the first class in which the recorder of deeds is required by law to keep offices both at the county seat and at another place within the county, all deeds, deeds of trust, mortgages, and other instruments affecting real property situated in that range in the county where the office outside of the county seat is located shall be recorded in such office and not at the county seat; and the proper place to file, or to file for record if goods are or are to become fixtures, all financing statements or other instruments or statements incidental thereto, such as continuation statements, termination statements, statements of assignment, statements of release, in order to perfect, continue, terminate, assign, release or affect a security interest in accordance with article 9, part 4, chapter 400, the Uniform Commercial Code, is as follows:
- (1) When the collateral is equipment used in farming operations, or farm products, or accounts, contract rights or general intangibles arising from or relating to the sale of farm products by a farmer, or consumer goods (as such types of collateral are defined in the Uniform Commercial Code) and the debtor's residence is in that range where the office outside the county seat is located, then in such office outside the county seat, or if the debtor is not a resident of this state and the goods are kept in that range where the office outside the county seat is located, then in such office outside the county seat, and in addition, when the collateral is crops, and the land on which the crops are growing or are to be grown is located in that range where the office outside the county seat is located, then in such office outside the county seat;
- (2) When the collateral is goods which at the time the security interest attaches are or are to become fixtures, and the land to which the fixtures are or are to be attached is located in that range where the office outside the county seat is located, then in such office outside the county seat, and any such filing shall be for record;
- (3) When the collateral is any other kind of property, in the office of the secretary of state and in addition: (a) If the debtor has a place of business only in such county of this state and only in that range where the office outside the county seat is located, also in such office outside the county seat, or (b) If the debtor has places of business only in such county of this state but has a place of business both in that range where the office outside the county seat is located, and also elsewhere in such county, then also in such office outside the county seat and also in such office at the county seat, or (c) If the debtor has no place of business in this state, but resides in that range where the office outside the county seat is located, then also in such office outside the county seat;
- (4) In all other cases where the proper place, or one of the proper places, to file or to file for record is in the office of the recorder of deeds of such county, then only in such office at the county seat and not in such office outside the county seat.
(L. 1957 p. 347 § 1, A.L. 1965 pp. 114, 170, A.L. 1969 H.B. 677)