Section 9-515 – Duration and Effectiveness of Financing Statement; Effect of Lapsed Financing Statement
(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (b), (e), (f), and (g), a filed financing statement is effective for a period of five years after the date of filing. (b) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (e), (f), and (g), an initial financing statement filed in connection with a public–finance transaction or manufactured–home transaction is effective for […]
Section 9-516 – What Constitutes Filing; Effectiveness of Filing
(a) 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) Filing does not occur with respect to a record that a filing office refuses to accept because: (1) The record is not communicated by […]
Section 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.
Section 9-518 – Claim Concerning Inaccurate or Wrongfully Filed Record
(a) A person may file in the filing office an information 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) An information statement under subsection (a) must: (1) Identify the record to which it relates by: (A) The file number assigned to […]
Section 9-519 – Numbering, Maintaining, and Indexing Records; Communicating Information Provided in Records
(a) 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) Index the filed record in accordance with subsections […]
Section 9-520 – Acceptance and Refusal to Accept Record
(a) 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) If a filing office refuses to accept a record for filing, it shall communicate to the person that […]
Section 9-521 – Uniform Form of Written Financing Statement and Amendment
A filing office that accepts written records may not refuse to accept a written initial financing statement, addendum, or amendment in the form and format set forth in the official text of the 2010 amendments to Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code promulgated by the American Law Institute and the Uniform Law Commission, except […]
Section 9-522 – Maintenance and Destruction of Records
(a) 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 the name of the debtor and by […]
Section 9-523 – Information From Filing Office; Sale or License of Records
(a) 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. However, if the person furnishes a […]
Section 9-508 – Effectiveness of Financing Statement if New Debtor Becomes Bound by Security Agreement
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a filed financing statement naming an original debtor is effective to perfect a security interest in collateral in which a new debtor has or acquires rights to the extent that the financing statement would have been effective had the original debtor acquired rights in the collateral. (b) If the […]