Current through L. 2024, c. 185.
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 section 9-515 of this title with respect to all secured parties of record. The record must be retrievable by using the name of the debtor and:(1) if the record was recorded in the filing office described in subdivision 9-501(a)(1) of this title, by using the file number assigned to the initial financing statement to which the record relates and the date that the record was recorded; or(2) if the record was filed in the filing office described in subdivision 9-501(a)(2) of this title, by using the file number assigned to the initial financing statement to which the record relates.(b) Except to the extent that a statute governing disposition of public records provides otherwise, the filing office immediately may destroy any written record evidencing a financing statement. However, if the filing office destroys a written record, it shall maintain another record of the financing statement which complies with subsection (a) of this section.Added 1999, No. 106 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. 7/1/2001.