(a) For each record filed in a filing office, the filing office shall:

(1) In the case of a record filed in the filing office described in subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of section 42a-9-501, assign a unique number to the filed record;

(2) In the case of a record filed in the filing office described in subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of section 42a-9-501, create a record that bears the number assigned to the filed record and the date and time of filing;

(3) Maintain the filed record for public inspection; and

(4) Index the filed record in accordance with subsections (b), (c) and (d) of this section.

(b) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (c) and (d) of this section, the filing office shall:

(1) Index an initial financing statement according to the name of the debtor and index all filed records relating to the initial financing statement in a manner that associates with one another an initial financing statement and all filed records relating to the initial financing statement; and

(2) Index a record that provides a name of a debtor which was not previously provided in the financing statement to which the record relates also according to the name that was not previously provided.

(c) If a financing statement is filed as a fixture filing or covers as-extracted collateral or timber to be cut, it must be filed for record and the filing office shall index it:

(1) In the grantor index under the names of the debtor and of each owner of record shown on the financing statement as if they were the mortgagors under a mortgage of the real property described; and

(2) In the grantee index under the name of the secured party as if the secured party were the mortgagee thereunder, or, if indexing is by description, as if the financing statement were a record of a mortgage of the real property described.

(d) (1) If a financing statement is filed as a fixture filing or covers as-extracted collateral or timber to be cut, the filing office shall index an assignment filed under subsection (a) of section 42a-9-514 or an amendment filed under subsection (b) of section 42a-9-514:

(A) In the grantor index under the name of the assignor as grantor; and

(B) In the grantee index under the name of the assignee as grantee.

(2) The filing officer shall also enter upon the margin of the record of such initial financing statement a notation of the record of the subsequent assignment or amendment and of any continuation statement, termination statement or information statement.

(e) The filing office shall maintain a capability:

(1) To retrieve a record by the name of the debtor and:

(A) If the filing office is described in subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of section 42a-9-501, by the book and page number assigned to the initial financing statement to which the record relates; or

(B) If the filing office is described in subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of section 42a-9-501, by the file number assigned to the initial financing statement to which the record relates; and

(2) To associate and retrieve with one another an initial financing statement and each filed record relating to the initial financing statement.

(f) The filing office may not remove a debtor's name from the index until one year after the effectiveness of a financing statement naming the debtor lapses under section 42a-9-515 with respect to all secured parties of record.

(g) The filing office shall perform the acts required by subsections (a) to (d), inclusive, of this section at the time and in the manner prescribed by filing-office regulation, but not later than five business days after the filing office receives the record in question.

(h) Subsection (g) of this section does not apply to a filing office described in subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of section 42a-9-501.

(P.A. 01-132, S. 90; P.A. 03-62, S. 13; P.A. 11-108, S. 15.)

History: P.A. 03-62 amended Subsec. (d) to designate provision re indexing as Subdiv. (1), redesignate existing Subdivs. (1) and (2) as Subparas. (A) and (B), respectively, of said Subdiv. (1) and designate provision re margin notations as Subdiv. (2); P.A. 11-108 amended Subsec. (d)(2) to replace “correction statement” with “information statement”, and made technical changes, effective July 1, 2013.