Tennessee Code Annotated
Tenn. Code Ann. § 47-9-501 (2026)
Filing office
✓ current as of May 2026
- (a)Filing offices. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), if the local law of this state governs perfection of a security interest or agricultural lien, the office in which to file a financing statement to perfect the security interest or agricultural lien is:
- (1) the office designated for the filing or recording of a record of a mortgage on the related real property, if:
- (A) the collateral is as-extracted collateral or timber to be cut; or
- (B) the financing statement is filed as a fixture filing and the collateral is goods that are or are to become fixtures; or
- (2) the office of the secretary of state, in all other cases, including a case in which the collateral is goods that are or are to become fixtures and the financing statement is not filed as a fixture filing.
- (1) the office designated for the filing or recording of a record of a mortgage on the related real property, if:
- (b)Filing office for transmitting utilities. The office in which to file a financing statement to perfect a security interest in collateral, including fixtures, of a transmitting utility is the office of the secretary of state. The financing statement also constitutes a fixture filing as to the collateral indicated in the financing statement which is or is to become fixtures.
Acts 2000, ch. 846, § 1.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 9
cases, 1979–2001 · leading case: Am. City Bank of Tullahoma v. W. Auto Supply Co., 631 S.W.2d 410 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1981).
Am. City Bank of Tullahoma v. W. Auto Supply Co., 631 S.W.2d 410 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1981). “First, it may reduce the claim to judgment, foreclose or otherwise enforce the security interest by judicial procedures pursuant to T.C.A. § 47-9-501(1), (2), (3), (4), (5).”
Trimble v. Sonitrol of Memphis, Inc., 723 S.W.2d 633 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1986). “The record, therefore, shows that the defendants were given a full and fair hearing on the claims raised in their counterclaims as well as on their rights to a commercially reasonable sale (T.C.A. § 47-9-501) which were adjudicated in the final hearing in this case.”
Davenport v. Chrysler Credit Corp., 818 S.W.2d 23 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1991). “Secured parties who do not abide by Tenn.Code Ann. §§ 47-9-501, -507 (1979 & Supp.”
Consum. Lease Network, Inc. v. Puckett (In Re Puckett), 60 B.R. 223 (Bankr. M.D. Tenn. 1986). “§§ 47-9-501 et seq. (Michie 1979). The only significant financing term missing from the default provisions of the CLN contract is a right to accelerate unma-tured payments.”
Pippin Way, Inc. v. Four Star Music Co. (In Re Four Star Music Co.), 2 B.R. 454 (Bankr. M.D. Tenn. 1979). “T.C.A. § 47-9-501(3) requires “To the extent that they give rights to the debtor and impose duties on the secured party, the rules stated in the subsections referred to below may not be waived or varied .”
McAllister v. Cherokee Valley Fed. Sav. & Loan Ass'n (In Re McAllister), 52 B.R. 293 (Bankr. E.D. Tenn. 1985). “Tenn.Code Ann. § 47-9-501 et seq. It also was not a general assignment of McAllister’s interest in the partnership.”
Data Sec., Inc. v. Plessman, 510 N.W.2d 361 (Neb. Ct. App. 1993). “The court held that the stock pledge agreement which purported to vest the stock in the seller upon the purchaser’s default was prohibited under both common law and Tenn. Code Ann. § 47-9-501 (3) (1979). In another case, Kellos v.”
Coy Hardaway v. William Burnett (Tenn. Ct. App. 1997). “As for the Plaintiffs’ claim for damages for Burnett’s alleged business torts, the master determined that the Plaintiffs were not entitled to lost profits based on the master’s findings that Haraway’s prior tender was insufficient to cure the default and that “Burnett acted…”
Steven H. Rezba v. Brian W. Randolph (Tenn. Ct. App. 2001). “The collateral will -6- have to be sold following the procedures prescribed in Tenn. Code Ann. § 47-9-501 , et seq., and Dr.”
— Tenn. Code Ann. § 47-9-501(1) — 2 cases
Am. City Bank of Tullahoma v. W. Auto Supply Co., 631 S.W.2d 410 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1981). “First, it may reduce the claim to judgment, foreclose or otherwise enforce the security interest by judicial procedures pursuant to T.C.A. § 47-9-501(1), (2), (3), (4), (5).”
Coy Hardaway v. William Burnett (Tenn. Ct. App. 1997). “As for the Plaintiffs’ claim for damages for Burnett’s alleged business torts, the master determined that the Plaintiffs were not entitled to lost profits based on the master’s findings that Haraway’s prior tender was insufficient to cure the default and that “Burnett acted…”
— Tenn. Code Ann. § 47-9-501(3) — 3 cases
Pippin Way, Inc. v. Four Star Music Co. (In Re Four Star Music Co.), 2 B.R. 454 (Bankr. M.D. Tenn. 1979). “T.C.A. § 47-9-501(3) requires “To the extent that they give rights to the debtor and impose duties on the secured party, the rules stated in the subsections referred to below may not be waived or varied .”
Trimble v. Sonitrol of Memphis, Inc., 723 S.W.2d 633 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1986). “The record, therefore, shows that the defendants were given a full and fair hearing on the claims raised in their counterclaims as well as on their rights to a commercially reasonable sale (T.C.A. § 47-9-501) which were adjudicated in the final hearing in this case.”
Coy Hardaway v. William Burnett (Tenn. Ct. App. 1997). “As for the Plaintiffs’ claim for damages for Burnett’s alleged business torts, the master determined that the Plaintiffs were not entitled to lost profits based on the master’s findings that Haraway’s prior tender was insufficient to cure the default and that “Burnett acted…”
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