The secretary of state shall maintain all Uniform Commercial Code documents and the database used to index them regardless of where or how the Uniform Commercial Code document was filed. The Uniform Commercial Code documents and database must be housed in the Uniform Commercial Code information management system. Uniform Commercial Code documents and data shall be available from the secretary of state or any satellite office. The secretary of state shall arrange by mutual agreement with county recorders for the storage and retrieval of existing Uniform Commercial Code documents.
Any filing office within the Uniform Commercial Code information management system may respond to requests for information, and the secretary of state shall establish and administer a system to facilitate those responses.
History:2000 c 399 art 1 s 100