Sec. 42a-9-525. Fees.
Sec. 42a-9-525. Fees. (a) The filing office described in subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of section 42a-9-501 shall charge and collect the following uniform fee: For
filing and indexing an initial financing statement, a correction statement or an amendment, twenty-five dollars. No fee shall be charged (1) to the state when the initial financing statement, correction statement or amendment is filed by or at the request of the
Attorney General or an assistant attorney general or by a duly authorized official of the
state or any of its agencies, boards or commissions acting in an official capacity, or (2)
to a municipality when the initial financing statement, correction statement or amendment is filed by a tax collector or other municipal officer of such municipality pursuant
to the provisions of sections 12-195a to 12-195g, inclusive, or (3) for any filing accomplished solely by electronic means and without the physical submission of any document,
instrument or paper, in accordance with a plan approved by the Secretary of the State.
(b) The uniform fee for responding to a request for information from the filing office
described in subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of section 42a-9-501, including issuing a
certificate showing whether there is on file, on the date and time stated therein, any
financing statement naming a particular debtor and any amendment thereof and, if there
is, giving the date and hour of filing such amendment and the name and address of each
secured party named therein, is twenty-five dollars. Upon request, the filing officer shall
furnish a photographic or electronic copy of any filed financing statement or amendment
for a uniform fee of twenty dollars regardless of the number of pages and affix such
filing officer's certification and official seal thereto for a fee of five dollars. No fee shall
be charged to the state when a certificate showing whether there is on file, on the date
and hour stated therein, any presently effective financing statement naming a particular
debtor and any amendment thereof, is requested by the Attorney General or an assistant
attorney general or by a duly authorized official of the state or any of its agencies,
boards or commissions acting in an official capacity, and no fee shall be charged to a
municipality when such certificate is requested by the tax collector or other municipal
officer of such municipality pursuant to the provisions of sections 12-195a to 12-195g,
inclusive.
(c) This section does not require a fee with respect to a record of a mortgage which
is effective as a financing statement filed as a fixture filing or as a financing statement
covering as-extracted collateral or timber to be cut under subsection (c) of section 42a-9-502. However, the recording and satisfaction fees that otherwise would be applicable
to the record of the mortgage apply.
(P.A. 01-132, S. 96; P.A. 03-62, S. 15.)
History: P.A. 03-62 amended Subsec. (a) to replace "Secretary of the State" with "filing office described in subdivision
(2) of subsection (a) of section 42a-9-501" and amended Subsec. (b) to specify that the filing office is "described in
subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of section 42a-9-501", replace one reference to "date and hour" with "date and time" and
replace "an authorized official" with "a duly authorized official".