Michigan Administrative Code
Department - State
Office of Customer Services
Uniform Commercial Code Filing Office
Part 5 - SEARCH REQUESTS AND REPORTS
Section R. 440.510 - Search logic
Universal Citation: MI Admin Code R. 440.510
Current through Vol. 24-16, September 15, 2024
Rule 510. Search results are created by applying standardized search logic to the name presented to the filing officer by the person requesting the search. Human judgment does not play a role in determining the results of the search. All of the following provisions are applied to conduct searches:
(1) The number of matches that may be returned in response to the search criteria is not limited.
(b) No distinction is made
between upper and lower case letters.
(c) Punctuation marks and accents are
disregarded. Only the letters A to Z in upper or lower case, the numbers 0, 1,
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, and the symbol &, in any combination, are
considered in conducting the search.
(d) Words and abbreviations at the end of a
name that indicate the existence or nature of an organization are disregarded,
including, but not limited to, any of the following or abbreviations of the
following:
(i) Agency.
(ii) Association.
(iii) Assn.
(iv) Associates.
(v) Assc.
(vi) Assoc.
(vii) Attorney at law.
(viii) Bank.
(ix) National bank.
(x) Business trust.
(xi) Charter.
(xii) Chartered.
(xiii) Company.
(xiv) Co.
(xv) Corporation.
(xvi) Corp.
(xvii) Credit union.
(xviii) CU.
(xix) Federal savings bank.
(xx) FSB.
(xxi) General partnership.
(xxii) Gen part.
(xxiii) GP.
(xxiv) Incorporated.
(xxv) Inc.
(xxvi) Limited.
(xxvii) Ltd.
(xxviii) Ltee.
(xxix) Limited liability company.
(xxx) LC.
(xxxi) LLC.
(xxxii) Limited liability
partnership.
(xxxiii)
LLP.
(xxxiv) Limited
partnership.
(xxxv) LP.
(xxxvi) Medical doctors professional
association.
(xxxvii)
MDPA.
(xxxviii) Medical doctors
professional corporation.
(xxxix)
MDPC.
(xL) National
association.
(xLi) NA.
(xLii) Partners.
(xLiii) Partnership.
(xLiv) Professional association.
(xLv) Prof assn.
(xLvi) PA.
(xLvii) Professional corporation.
(xLviii) Prof corp.
(xLix) PC.
(L) Professional limited liability
company.
(Li) Professional limited
liability co.
(Lii) PLLC.
(Liii) Railroad.
(Liv) RR.
(Lv) Real estate investment trust.
(Lvi) REIT.
(Lvii) Registered limited liability
partnership.
(Lviii) RLLP.
(Lix) Savings association.
(Lx) SA.
(Lxi) Service corporation.
(Lxii) SC.
(Lxiii) Sole proprietorship.
(Lxiv) SP.
(Lxv) SPA.
(Lxvi) Trust.
(Lxvii) Trustee.
(Lxviii) As trustee.
(e) The word "the" at the beginning of the
search criteria is disregarded.
(f)
All spaces are disregarded.
(g) For
first and middle names of individuals, initials are equated with all names that
begin with the initials, and no middle name or initial is equated with all
middle names and initials.
(h)
After taking the preceding provisions into account to modify the name of the
debtor requested to be searched and to modify the names of debtors contained in
unlapsed financing statements in the UCC information management system, the
search will reveal only names of active debtors that, as modified, exactly
match the name requested, as modified.
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