(1) "Local-filing office" means a filing office, other than the statewide filing office in the office of the County Clerk of Oklahoma County or the statewide filing office in the office of the Secretary of State, that is designated as the proper place to file a financing statement under former Article 9 of this title;

1. (i) financing statements and other records that have been filed in a local-filing office before July 1, 2001 and that are, or upon processing and indexing will be, reflected in the index maintained by the local-filing office for filing for financing statements and other records filed in the local-filing office before July 1, 2001, and
2. (ii) the index maintained by the local-filing office as of June 30, 2001, including entries for filings completed before July 1, 2001, even though processed on or after that date.
3. (B) "Former-Article 9 records" do not include records presented to a local-filing office for filing after June 30, 2001, whether or not the records relate to financing statements filed in the local-filing office before July 1, 2001; and
4. (3) "Mortgage", "as-extracted collateral", "fixture filing", "goods" and "fixtures" have the meanings set forth in this article of this title.
5. (b) A local-filing office shall not accept for filing a record presented after June 30, 2001, whether or not the record relates to a financing statement filed in the local-filing office before July 1, 2001.
6. (c) Until July 1, 2008, each local-filing office shall maintain all former-Article 9 records in accordance with former-Article 9. A former-Article 9 record which is filed before July 1, 2001, but which is not reflected on the index maintained as of June 30, 2001, by the local-filing office, shall be processed and indexed and reflected on the index maintained as of June 30, 2001, as soon as practicable, but in no event later than July 30, 2001.
7. (d) Until July 1, 2008, each local-filing office shall respond to requests for information with respect to former-Article 9 records relating to a debtor and shall issue certificates in accordance with former-Article 9. The fee for issuing a certificate shall be Five Dollars ($5.00). The fee for furnishing a certified copy of a former-Article 9 record shall be One Dollar ($1.00) per page.
8. (e) After June 30, 2008, each local-filing office may remove and destroy all former-Article 9 records pursuant to Section 155.2 of Title 19 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
9. (f) This section shall not apply, with respect to financing statements and other records, to a filing office in which mortgages or records of mortgages on real property are required to be filed or recorded if:
10. (1) the collateral is timber to be cut or as-extracted collateral, or

11. (2) the record is or relates to a financing statement files as a fixture filing and the collateral is goods that are or are to become fixtures.

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(2)(A) "Former-Article 9 records" means: