Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 38, September 20, 2024
a) UCC records may be tendered for filing at
the UCC Division as follows:
1) Personal
delivery, at the UCC Division's street address. The file time for a UCC record
delivered by this method is when delivery of the UCC record is accepted by the
filing office (even though the UCC record may not yet have been accepted for
filing and subsequently may be rejected). The date and time of receipt are
stamped on the document or otherwise permanently associated with the record
maintained for a UCC document in the UCC information management
system.
2) Courier delivery, at the
UCC Division's street address. The file time for a UCC record delivered by this
method is, notwithstanding the time of delivery, the next close of business
following the time of delivery (even though the UCC record may not yet have
been accepted for filing and may be subsequently rejected). The date and time
of receipt are stamped on the document or otherwise permanently associated with
the record maintained for a UCC document in the UCC information management
system. A UCC record delivered after regular business hours or on a day the
filing office is not open for business, if not examined for processing sooner,
will have a filing time of the close of business on the next day the filing
office is open for business.
3)
Postal service delivery, to the filing office's mailing address. The file time
for a UCC record delivered by this method is the next close of business
following the time of delivery (even though the UCC record may not yet have
been accepted for filing and may be subsequently rejected). The date and time
of receipt are stamped on the document or otherwise permanently associated with
the record maintained for a UCC document in the UCC information management
system. A UCC record delivered after regular business hours or on a day the
filing office is not open for business will have a filing time of the close of
business on the next day the filing office is open for business.
4) The Secretary of State offers online
information and electronic filing and search services through the website of
the Secretary of State at
www.cyberdriveillinois.com. The file
time for a UCC document delivered by this method is the time that the Secretary
of State's system analyzes the relevant transmission and determines that all
the required elements of the transmission have been received in a required
format and are machine-readable.
5)
The UCC Division filing office hours.
A) The
UCC Division business hours for personal delivery, courier delivery and postal
service delivery are 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except
holidays, in Springfield only.
B)
Electronic filing and search services are available 24 hours per day, 365 days
per year, except for scheduled maintenance and unscheduled interruptions of
service.
6) The office
address is Howlett Building, Room 350 West, 501 South
Second Street, Springfield IL 62756. All incorporated materials
and forms referenced in this Part are available to the public for inspection
and copying at this address.
b) UCC search requests may be delivered to
the filing office by any of the means by which UCC records may be delivered to
the filing office. A search request for a debtor named on an initial financing
statement may not be made on the initial financing statement form, even if the
form has a space for that request. Search requests must be made on the UCC-11
form approved by the International Association of Commercial Administrators, as
incorporated by reference in Section
180.12 of this
Part.
