Effective July 1, 2001, Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) Revised Article 9 will be adopted in Louisiana. Acceptable filing forms and filing fees have been amended as follows:
Standard UCC filing forms:
Louisiana Approved UCC-1 Financing Statement, Louisiana approved UCC-3 Amendment Form, the National Approved UCC-1 Financing Statement, and the National Approved Amendment Form.
All Louisiana filing forms approved prior to 7/1/01 will continue to be accepted as standard until 1/1/02; however, we do encourage the use of the 7/1/01 version of the Louisiana approved forms. Any other UCC forms will be accepted as non-standard and will be charged an additional $15 non-standard fee.
UCC - One Debtor
- Financing Statement: $30.00
- Financing Statement with Assignment: $35.00
- Financing Statement relative to "as extracted collateral" or fixture filing: $40.00
- Financing Statement (Transmitting Utility): $205.00
- Financing Statement (Public Finance Transaction): $105.00
- Attachments (each): $2.00
- Additional Debtor Names (each): $10.00
- Non-standard Form Fee: $15.00
UCC3 - One Debtor
- Amendment: $30.00
- Continuation: $25.00
- Assignment: $25.00
- Debtor Correction: $25.00
- Master Assignment/Amendment (Per Financing Statement - 20 or more): $5.00
- Termination (Per Debtor name paid at time of original filing): $5.00
- Additional Debtors Named on Original (each): $5.00
UCC11 - Search
- UCC Certificate (per debtor name): $30.00
- Each additional listing more than ten: $1.00
- Copies of Documents (per page): $0.50
- Certification of Copies: $5.00
UCC - 1F
- EFS Farm Product Notice Only (shared area): $30.00
- (Fee includes prepaid termination fee, indexing of all debtor names and attachments)
- UCC & EFS Farm Products Notice (entire form): $25.00
- (Fee includes indexing all debtor names and attachments)
UCC - 3F
- Amendments, Assignment, Continuation, Partial Release: $25.00
- Fee includes indexing all debtor names and attachments
Note: Filing present for inclusion in the Central Registry database must be presented on the UCC-1F and UCC-3F forms; there is no non-stamped fee relative to these filings.