57A-9-522. Required retention of information from financing statement--Destruction of written record.
(a) The filing office shall maintain a record of the information provided in a filed financing statement for at least one year after the effectiveness of the financing statement has lapsed under §57A-9-515 with respect to all secured parties of record. The record must be retrievable by using the name of the debtor and:
(1)If the record was filed or recorded in the filing office described in §57A-9-501(a)(1), by using the file number assigned to the initial financing statement to which the record relates and the date and time that the record was filed or recorded; or
(2)If the record was filed in the filing office described in §57A-9-501(a)(2), by using the file number assigned to the initial financing statement to which the record relates.
(b) Except to the extent that a statute governing disposition of public records provides otherwise, the filing office immediately may destroy any written record evidencing a financing statement. However, if the filing office destroys a written record, it shall maintain another record of the financing statement which complies with subsection (a).
Source: SL 2000, ch 231.