§ 9-522. Maintenance and destruction of records
(a) Post-lapse maintenance and retrieval of information. The filing office shall maintain a record of the information provided in a filed financing statement for at least one year after the effectiveness of the financing statement has lapsed under § 9–515 with respect to all secured parties of record. The record must be retrievable by using […]
§ 9-523. Information from filing office; sale or license of records
(a) Acknowledgment of filing written record. If a person that files a written record requests an acknowledgment of the filing, the filing office shall send to the person an image of the record showing the number assigned to the record pursuant to § 9–519(a)(1) and the date and time of the filing of the record. […]
§ 9-524. Delay by filing office
Delay by the filing office beyond a time limit prescribed by this part is excused if: (1) the delay is caused by interruption of communication or computer facilities, war, emergency conditions, failure of equipment, or other circumstances beyond control of the filing office; and (2) the filing office exercises reasonable diligence under the circumstances.
§ 9-525. Fees
(a) Initial financing statement or other record. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (e), fees for services rendered by the filing office under this Part must be set by rules adopted by the Lieutenant Governor pursuant to Title 3, Chapter 35, Virgin Islands Code. The rules must set the fees for filing and indexing a […]
§ 9-518. Claim concerning inaccurate or wrongfully filed record
(a) Correction statement. A person may file in the filing office a correction statement with respect to a record indexed there under the person’s name if the person believes that the record is inaccurate or was wrongfully filed. (b) Sufficiency of correction statement. A correction statement must: (1) identify the record to which it relates […]
§ 9-519. Numbering, maintaining, and indexing records; communicating information provided in records
(a) Filing office duties. For each record filed in a filing office, the filing office shall: (1) assign a unique number to the filed record; (2) create a record that bears the number assigned to the filed record and the date and time of filing; (3) maintain the filed record for public inspection; and (4) […]
§ 9-520. Acceptance and refusal to accept record
(a) Mandatory refusal to accept record. A filing office shall refuse to accept a record for filing for a reason set forth in § 9–516(b) and may refuse to accept a record for filing only for a reason set forth in § 9–516(b). (b) Communication concerning refusal. If a filing office refuses to accept a […]
§ 9-516. What constitutes filing; effectiveness of filing
(a) What constitutes filing. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), communication of a record to a filing office and tender of the filing fee or acceptance of the record by the filing office constitutes filing. (b) Refusal to accept record; filing does not occur. Filing does not occur with respect to a record that […]
§ 9-517. Effect of indexing errors
The failure of the filing office to index a record correctly does not affect the effectiveness of the filed record.
§ 9-511. Secured party of record
(a) Secured party of record. A secured party of record with respect to a financing statement is a person whose name is provided as the name of the secured party or a representative of the secured party in an initial financing statement that has been filed. If an initial financing statement is filed under § […]