Posted on March 15, 2015 by Unlike other states, Georgia has no central filing office such as the Secretary of State for filing UCCs. Instead, non-real estate UCCs are submitted to an individual county. The county Clerk assigns a file number, then transmits the UCC information and an image to the Georgia Superior Court Clerks’ Cooperative Authority, which then indexes the UCC in a statewide database and makes the image available. Until recently, subsequent UCC-3 filings had to be filed in the same county as the original UCC. That is no longer a requirement. Now it is legal to file subsequent UCCs in any of Georgia’s 159 counties. This means that while it is possible to search a single county in Georgia for UCC filings, doing so can result in omissions in what is reported. Fortunately, CLAS always performs a search of the Statewide UCC database for Georgia UCC Searches. (One exception to this is in the case of conducting a search after filing, if you are doing so to ensure that it has been filed correctly.) Posted in Jurisdictional Updates
