GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1991 SESSION
CHAPTER 164
AN ACT TO CHANGE THE REQUIREMENTS CONCERNING THE INDEXING AND FILING OF CERTAIN UCC STATEMENTS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 25-9-403(4) reads as rewritten:
"(4) A filing officer
shall mark each statement with a file number and with the date and hour of
filing and shall hold the statement or a microfilm or other photographic copy
thereof for public inspection. In addition the filing officer shall index the
statement according to the name of the debtor and shall note in the index the
file number and the address of the debtor given in the statement."
Sec. 2. G.S. 25-9-404(1) reads as rewritten:
"(1) If a financing
statement covering consumer goods is filed on or after July 1, 1976, then within
one month or within 10 30 days following written demand by
the debtor after there is no outstanding secured obligation and no
commitment to make advances, incur obligations or otherwise give value, the
secured party must file with each filing officer with whom the financing
statement was filed a termination statement to the effect that he no longer
claims a security interest under the financing statement, which shall be
identified by file number and also by the most current file number if any
continuation was filed. In other cases whenever there is no outstanding
secured obligation and no commitment to make advances, incur obligations or
otherwise give value, the secured party must on written demand by the debtor
send the debtor, for each file with each filing officer with whom
the financing statement was filed, a termination statement to the effect that
he no longer claims a security interest under the financing statement, which
shall be identified by file number and also by the most current file number if
any continuation was filed. A termination statement signed by a person
other than the secured party of record must be accompanied by a separate written
statement of assignment signed by the secured party of record and complying
with subsection (2) of G.S. 25-9-405, including payment of the required fee. If
the affected secured party fails to file such a termination statement as
required by this subsection, or to send such a termination statement subsection
within 10 30 days, days after proper demand therefor, he
shall be liable to the debtor for one hundred dollars ($100.00), and in
addition for any loss caused to the debtor by such failure."
Sec. 3. This act becomes effective October 1, 1991.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 29th day of May, 1991.
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James C. Gardner
President of the Senate
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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives