Uniform Commercial Code (UCC)

In January of 1990, Louisiana adopted the Uniform Commercial Code. This statewide notification system replaced Louisiana's chattel mortgage laws and for the first time provides lenders with statewide information regarding liens on movable, personal property.

As the last state to adopt the UCC, Louisiana was fortunate to implement a filing system that benefited its users by allowing the filing of financing statements with any of the 64 parish filing offices.

UCC Fee Schedule

Please mail all UCC correspondence to 300 Houmas St., Donaldsonville, LA 70346

Important Reminder: Beginning on July 1, 2013, the state of Louisiana will be accepting the new national UCC-1, UCC-1AD, UCC-1AP, UCC-3, UCC-3AD, and UCC-3AP forms in addition to our Louisiana UCC forms (Revised 2009 or after).

A non-standard form penalty will be assessed to any National UCC forms with revision dates prior to April 20, 2011 and to any Louisiana UCC forms revised prior to 2009. If you have any questions or concerns about this change, please call the Secretary of State's UCC department at (225) 925-4701.

For current standard forms, please visit www.sos.la.gov.

UCC-1 (one debtor)
Fees reflected below include a $5 prepaid termination fee.

Fee Cost
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 (Transmitting Utility and fixture filing) $215.00
Financing Statement (Public Finance Transaction) $105.00
Financing Statement (Public Finance Transaction and fixture filing) $115.00
Attachments $2.00 each
Additional Debtor Names $10.00 each
Non-standard* Form Fee $15.00

* Anything other than the National Financing Statement forms or the Louisiana Financing Statement forms.

UCC-3 (one debtor)
Fee Cost
Amendment $25.00
Continuation $25.00
Assignment $25.00
Master Assignment/Amendment $5.00 per
Termination ($5 per debtor name paid at time of original filing) N/A
Addition debtors names on original $5 each

UCC-5
Fee Cost
Information Statement $25.00

UCC-11 Search
Fee Cost
UCC Certificate* (per debtor name) $30.00
Copies of documents $2.00 per page
Certification of copies $5 each

* These are flat fees. No additional charges are assessed for additional debtors and/or attachments.

UCC-1 F and UCC-3F Central Registry Filings
Fee Cost
UCC and Crop filing $35.00*
Crop filing $20.00*
Amendments, Continuations, Assignments $20.00*

* These are flat fees. No additional charges are assessed for additional debtors and/or attachments.