Amendment to Certification of Oklahoma's Central Filing System
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In response to a request from the Oklahoma County Clerk's Office, the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) has approved amendments to the State of Oklahoma's Central Filing System. Oklahoma's amendments transfer authority of the Central Filing System from the Oklahoma Secretary of State to the Oklahoma County Clerk. Oklahoma's amendments will make Effective Financing Statements available for the public on the Clerk's Office website within 48 hours of being recorded. Additionally, the Oklahoma County Clerk's Office will create new document types within its existing UCC electronic filing system that will allow it to accept Effective Financing Statement filings electronically.
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<title>Federal Register, Volume 91 Issue 50 (Monday, March 16, 2026)</title>
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 50 (Monday, March 16, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12550-12551]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-05095]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Agricultural Marketing Service
[Doc. No. AMS-FTPP-25-0453]
Amendment to Certification of Oklahoma's Central Filing System
AGENCY: Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In response to a request from the Oklahoma County Clerk's
Office, the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) has approved
amendments to the State of Oklahoma's Central Filing System. Oklahoma's
amendments transfer authority of the Central Filing System from the
Oklahoma Secretary of State to the Oklahoma County Clerk. Oklahoma's
amendments will make Effective Financing Statements available for the
public on the Clerk's Office website within 48 hours of being recorded.
Additionally, the Oklahoma County Clerk's Office will create new
document types within its existing UCC electronic filing system that
will allow
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it to accept Effective Financing Statement filings electronically.
DATES: This notice is applicable March 16, 2026.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Packers and Stockyards Division of the
Agricultural Marketing Service administers the Clear Title Program on
behalf of the Secretary of Agriculture. The Clear Title Program is
authorized by section 1324 of the Food Security Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C.
1631), which requires States implementing central filing system for
notification of liens on farm products have such systems certified by
the Secretary of Agriculture.
A list of the states with certified central filing systems is
available on the AMS website at <a href="https://www.ams.usda.gov/rules-regulations/food-security-act/clear-title">https://www.ams.usda.gov/rules-regulations/food-security-act/clear-title</a>. Farm products covered by a
State's central filing system are also identified through the AMS
website. The Oklahoma central filing system covers all farm products.
The Department of Agriculture originally certified the central
filing system for Oklahoma on December 29, 1987 (52 FR 49056). The
certification was last amended on February 5, 2001 (66 FR 13876). The
Oklahoma County Clerk Office requested its certification be amended to
transfer statutory authority of the central filing system for effective
financing statements from the Oklahoma Secretary of State to the
Oklahoma County Clerk's office.
The Oklahoma County Clerk will oversee the amended central filing
system including electronic filings of effective financing statements
that owners of security interests would file with the Clerk's existing
Uniform Commercial Code Central Filing System. In the central filing
system, filers have the option of uploading completed documents or
using an online fillable form. For paper filings, documents are to be
mailed to the County Clerk's office accompanied by payment. The
documents are then scanned, processed and officially recorded. Each
document will be assigned a unique instrument number. Once recorded,
the original document will be returned to the customer along with a
receipt indicating the instrument number. Documents are to be returned
to the customer by mail or in person, depending on how they were
submitted.
This notice announces AMS approval of the amended certification for
Oklahoma's central filing system.
(Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1631, 7 CFR 2.22(a)(3)(v) and 2.81(a)(5), and 9
CFR 205.101.)
Erin Morris,
Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Service.
[FR Doc. 2026-05095 Filed 3-13-26; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3410-02-P
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