WARNING:
The Secretary of State's Office has received complaints regarding fraudulent Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) forms being mailed out to businesses. The Alabama Secretary of State's Office does not mail UCC forms out to businesses. Businesses pay the filing fee at the time of submission. The Secretary of State will never mail an invoice to you. UCC forms may only be completed online or submitted by mail to the following address: PO Box 5616, Montgomery, AL 36103.
The Uniform Commercial Code Division operates a filing and retrieval center for UCC financing statements at the state level. If a secured party wishes to perfect a security interest in a collateral when the proper place to file is the Office of the Secretary of State, they must submit a UCC-1 form to the UCC Division with the appropriate fees.
Download our UCC brochure for information about available downloads, fees, and more.
All filings submitted to the UCC Division are given an exclusive filing number. To comply with federal and state law, financing statements are filed alphabetically and numerically. In the event that a secured party wishes to terminate, continue, release part of the collateral, assign a new secured party or amend the original financing statement, a UCC-3 form is filed with reference to the original file number. A UCC-5 form may be used to put information on the index - this will not make changes to the information filed on a UCC-1 or a UCC-3. Requests for information on UCC filings require a UCC-11 to be filed. In recent years, the UCC Division began accepting state and federal tax liens for filing. State and federal tax liens are handled in the same manner as the UCC-1 financing statements.
If attachments are required for forms UCC-1 or UCC-3, please use forms UCC-1AD or UCC-3AD respectively.
Filers are encouraged to use the national forms which may be downloaded to the right under "Downloads".
There are more than 500,000 documents on file in the UCC office. Approximately 300-500 statements are received daily. Any citizens who want to determine if the stated collateral has been previously perfected may conduct an Advanced Search (to the left under UCC) online OR submit a UCC-11 request for information form and a search will be conducted by the debtor's name. Copies of individual filings or all filings in a given debtor's name are available upon request.
UCC Division
Voice: 334-353-0203
Physical Address
770 Washington Avenue, Suite 580
Montgomery, AL 36104
Mailing Address
PO Box 5616
Montgomery, AL 36103-5616