Code of Maine Rules
29 - DEPARTMENT OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE
250 - BUREAU OF MOTOR VEHICLES
Bureau of Corporations, Elections and Commissions
Chapter 401 - ADMINISTRATIVE RULES FOR UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE, TITLE 11, ARTICLE 9-A
Section 250-401-4 - Filing and Data Entry Procedures

Universal Citation: 29 ME Code Rules ยง 250-401-4
Current through 2024-38, September 18, 2024

400 Errors of the filing office.The filing office may correct data entry and indexing errors of filing office personnel in the UCC information management system at any time. If a correction is made to a record of a financing statement after the filing office has issued a search report with a through date and time (see subsection 505.B.4) that is on or after the filing date and time of the financing statement, the filing office will associate with the record of the financing statement in the UCC information management system a filing officer statement on the date that the corrective action was taken providing the date and an explanation of the correction.

401 Data entry.Data are entered into the UCC information management system exactly as provided in a UCC record, without regard to apparent errors. Data provided in electronic form is transferred to the UCC information management system exactly as submitted by the remitter.

402 Verification of data entry.The filing office will verify accuracy of the data from UCC records entered in accordance with subsection 401 into the UCC information management system. Data entry performed by remitters with respect to electronically filed UCC records is the responsibility of the remitter and is not verified by the filing office.

403 Master amendments.The filing office will not accept master or global amendments of secured party names or addresses, or assignments.

404 Notice of bankruptcy.The filing officer shall take no action upon receipt of a notification, formal or informal, of bankruptcyproceeding involving a debtor named in the UCC information management system.

405 Redaction.The filing officer is not obliged to redact any information from the information it provides to searchers and bulk data purchasers.Therefore, the filer should not include information that is not required to be filed on a UCC record.

406 Use of other than standard, printable ASCII characters.If a UCC record contains any characters other than those included in the standard, printable ASCII character set as required by subsection 101.E, the filing office will replace those characters with a space when entering the UCC record into the UCC information management system.

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