554.9522  Maintenance and destruction of records.

1.  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 section 554.9515 with respect to all secured parties of record. The record must be retrievable by using the name of the debtor and:

a.  if the record was filed or recorded in the filing office described in section 554.9501, subsection 1, paragraph "a", by using the file number assigned to the initial financing statement to which the record relates and the date and time that the record was filed or recorded; or

b.  if the record was filed in the filing office described in section 554.9501, subsection 1, paragraph "b", by using the file number assigned to the initial financing statement to which the record relates.

2.  Destruction of written records.  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 1.

Section History: Recent form

  2000 Acts, ch 1149, §93, 187

Internal References

  Referred to in § 554.9513, 554.9523

Footnotes

  Effective July 1, 2001; 2000 Acts, ch 1149, §187; for law prior to July 1, 2001, see Code 2001


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