Effect of indexing errors

  1. Law
  2. District of Columbia Code
  3. Commercial Instruments and Transactions. [Enacted title]
  4. Uniform Commercial Code
  5. Secured Transactions
  6. Filing
  7. Filing Office; Contents and Effectiveness of Financing Statement
  8. Effect of indexing errors

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The failure of the filing office to index a record correctly does not affect the effectiveness of the filed record.

(Oct. 26, 2000, D.C. Law 13-201, § 101, 47 DCR 7576.)

Uniform Commercial Code Comment

1. Source. New.

2. Effectiveness of Mis-Indexed Records. This section provides that the filing office’s error in mis-indexing a record does not render ineffective an otherwise effective record. As did former Section 9-401, this section imposes the risk of filing-office error on those who search the files rather than on those who file.


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