(a) Filing offices. If the local law of this state governs perfection of a security interest, the office in which to file a financing statement to perfect the security interest is: (1) The Department of Public Safety and Corrections, office of motor vehicles, if the collateral is a titled motor vehicle not held as inventory for sale or lease. (2) Repealed by Acts 2010, No. 378, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2011. (3) The Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, if the collateral is a titled vessel valued in excess of two thousand five hundred dollars and required to be numbered, or a titled outboard motor, and such vessel or motor is to be principally operated on the waters of this state, not held as inventory for sale or lease, and transferred for the first time on or after July 1, 2008. (4) The clerk of court of any parish, in all other cases, including when the collateral is as-extracted collateral or goods that are to become fixtures and the financing statement is filed as a fixture filing. (b) [Reserved.]
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