Notices of liens on real property for obligations payable to the United States, and certificates and notices affecting the liens shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of the county in which the real property subject to the liens is situated. Notices of liens on tangible or intangible personal property for obligations payable to the United States and certificates and notices affecting the liens shall be filed as follows: If the person against whose interest the lien applies is a corporation or a partnership whose principal executive office is in the State, as these entities are defined in the Internal Revenue Code, in the office of the clerk of the circuit court for the county where the principal executive office is located; or In all other cases, in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of the county where the person resides at the time of filing of the notice of lien.

Certification of notice of liens, certificates, or other notices affecting federal liens by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, his delegate, or by any official or entity of the United States responsible for filing or certifying of notice of any other lien, entitles them to be filed and no other attestation, certification, or acknowledgement is necessary.

A filing officer shall record a notice of federal lien, a refiling of a notice of federal lien, or a notice of revocation of any certificate described in subsection (b) of this section presented to the filing officer. A filing officer shall record a certificate of release, nonattachment, discharge, or subordination of any lien presented to the filing officer.

The fee for filing and indexing each notice of lien or certificate or notice affecting the lien is $3.

Sections 3-401 through 3-405 of this subtitle shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate their general purpose to make uniform the law of those states which enact them, and may be cited as the Maryland Revised Uniform Federal Lien Registration Act.