Sec. 42a-9-519. Numbering, maintaining and indexing records. Communicating information provided in records.
Sec. 42a-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) In the case of a record filed in the filing office described in subdivision (2) of
subsection (a) of section 42a-9-501, assign a unique number to the filed record;
(2) In the case of a record filed in the filing office described in subdivision (2) of
subsection (a) of section 42a-9-501, 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 (b), (c) and (d).
(b) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (c) and (d), the filing office shall:
(1) Index an initial financing statement according to the name of the debtor and index
all filed records relating to the initial financing statement in a manner that associates with
one another an initial financing statement and all filed records relating to the initial
financing statement; and
(2) Index a record that provides a name of a debtor which was not previously provided in the financing statement to which the record relates also according to the name
that was not previously provided.
(c) If a financing statement is filed as a fixture filing or covers as-extracted collateral
or timber to be cut, it must be filed for record and the filing office shall index it:
(1) In the grantor index under the names of the debtor and of each owner of record
shown on the financing statement as if they were the mortgagors under a mortgage of
the real property described; and
(2) In the grantee index under the name of the secured party as if the secured party
were the mortgagee thereunder, or, if indexing is by description, as if the financing
statement were a record of a mortgage of the real property described.
(d) (1) If a financing statement is filed as a fixture filing or covers as-extracted
collateral or timber to be cut, the filing office shall index an assignment filed under
subsection (a) of section 42a-9-514 or an amendment filed under subsection (b) of section 42a-9-514:
(A) In the grantor index under the name of the assignor as grantor; and
(B) In the grantee index under the name of the assignee as grantee.
(2) The filing officer shall also enter upon the margin of the record of such initial
financing statement a notation of the record of the subsequent assignment or amendment
and of any continuation statement, termination statement or correction statement.
(e) The filing office shall maintain a capability:
(1) To retrieve a record by the name of the debtor and:
(A) If the filing office is described in subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of section
42a-9-501, by the book and page number assigned to the initial financing statement to
which the record relates; or
(B) If the filing office is described in subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of section
42a-9-501, by the file number assigned to the initial financing statement to which the
record relates; and
(2) To associate and retrieve with one another an initial financing statement and
each filed record relating to the initial financing statement.
(f) The filing office may not remove a debtor's name from the index until one year
after the effectiveness of a financing statement naming the debtor lapses under section
42a-9-515 with respect to all secured parties of record.
(g) The filing office shall perform the acts required by subsections (a) to (d), inclusive, at the time and in the manner prescribed by filing-office regulation, but not later
than five business days after the filing office receives the record in question.
(h) Subsection (g) does not apply to a filing office described in subdivision (1) of
subsection (a) of section 42a-9-501.
(P.A. 01-132, S. 90; P.A. 03-62, S. 13.)
History: P.A. 03-62 amended Subsec. (d) to designate provision re indexing as Subdiv. (1), redesignate existing Subdivs.
(1) and (2) as Subparas. (A) and (B), respectively, of said Subdiv. (1) and designate provision re margin notations as
Subdiv. (2).