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...A financing statement sufficiently indicates the collateral that it covers if the financing statement provides: (A) A description of the collateral pursuant to section 1309.108 of the Revised Code; or (B) An indication that the financing statement covers all assets or all personal property.

...(A) A consignor, lessor, or other bailor of goods, a licensor, or a buyer of a payment intangible or promissory note may file a financing statement, or may comply with a statute or treaty described in division (A) of section 1309.311 of the Revised Code, using the terms "consignor," "consignee," "lessor," "lessee," "bailor," "bailee," "licensor," "licensee," "owner," "registered owner," "buyer," "seller," or words of...

...(A) A financing statement that substantially satisfies the requirements of sections 1309.501 to 1309.527 of the Revised Code is effective, even if it has minor errors or omissions, unless the errors or omissions make the financing statement seriously misleading. (B) Except as otherwise provided in division (C) of this section, a financing statement that fails sufficiently to provide the name of the debtor in accord...

...to collateral that is sold, exchanged, leased, licensed, or otherwise disposed of and in which a security interest or agricultural lien continues, even if the secured party knows of or consents to the disposition. (B) Except as otherwise provided in division (C) of this section and section 1309.508 of the Revised Code, a financing statement is not rendered ineffective if, after the financing statement is file...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a filed financing statement naming an original debtor is effective to perfect a security interest in collateral in which a new debtor has or acquires rights to the extent that the financing statement would have been effective had the original debtor acquired rights in the collateral. (B) If the difference between the name of the original debtor and that of the new de...

...(A) A person may file an initial financing statement, amendment that adds collateral covered by a financing statement, or amendment that adds a debtor to a financing statement only if: (1) The debtor authorizes the filing in an authenticated record or pursuant to division (B) or (C) of this section; or (2) The person holds an agricultural lien that has become effective at the time of filing, and the financing state...

...(A) A filed record is effective only to the extent that it was filed by a person who is permitted to file it under section 1309.509 of the Revised Code. (B) A record authorized by one secured party of record does not affect the financing statement with respect to another secured party of record. (C) A continuation statement that is not filed within the six-month period prescribed by division (D) of section 1309.515...

...(A) A secured party of record with respect to a financing statement is a person whose name is provided as the name of the secured party or a representative of the secured party in an initial financing statement that has been filed. If an initial financing statement is filed under division (A) of section 1309.514 of the Revised Code, the assignee named in the initial financing statement is the secured party of record ...

...(A) Subject to section 1309.509 of the Revised Code, a person may add or delete collateral covered by, continue or terminate the effectiveness of, or, subject to division (E) of this section, otherwise amend the information provided in, a financing statement by filing an amendment that: (1) Identifies, by its file number, the initial financing statement to which the amendment relates; and (2) If the amendment relat...

...(A) A secured party shall cause the secured party of record for a financing statement to file a termination statement for the financing statement if the financing statement covers consumer goods and: (1) There is no obligation secured by the collateral covered by the financing statement, and no commitment to make an advance, incur an obligation, or otherwise give value; or (2) The debtor did not authorize the filin...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (C) of this section, an initial financing statement may reflect an assignment of all of the secured party's power to authorize an amendment to the financing statement by providing the name and mailing address of the assignee as the name and address of the secured party. (B) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, a secured party of record may assign of record ...

... fixture filing until the mortgage is released or satisfied of record or its effectiveness otherwise terminates as to the real property.

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, communication of a record to a filing office and tender of the filing fee or acceptance of the record by the filing office constitutes filing. (B) Filing does not occur with respect to a record that a filing office refuses to accept because: (1) The record is not communicated by a method or medium of communication authorized by the filing office; (2) An...

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

...(A) A person may file in the filing office an information statement with respect to a record indexed there under the person's name if the person believes that the record is inaccurate or was wrongfully filed. (B) An information statement under division (A) of this section must: (1) Identify the record to which it relates by: (a) The file number assigned to the initial financing statement to which the record ...

...(A) For each record filed in a filing office, the filing office shall: (1) Assign an unique number to the filed record; (2) 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 divisions (C), (D), and (E) of this section. (B) A file number assigned after January 1,...

...(A) A filing office shall refuse to accept a record for filing for a reason specified in division (B) of section 1309.516 of the Revised Code and may refuse to accept a record for filing only for a reason specified in that division. However, the secretary of state's office shall redact social security and employer identification numbers from filings posted on its web site. (B) If a filing office refuses to accept a ...

... amendments to article 9 of the uniform commercial code promulgated by the American law institute and the national conference of commissioners on uniform state laws, except for a reason prescribed in division (B) of section 1309.516 of the Revised Code. (B) A filing office that accepts written records may not refuse to accept a written record in the form and format set forth as form UCC3 and form UCC3Ad in th...

...(A) The filing office shall maintain a record of the information provided in a filed financing statement for not less than one year after the effectiveness of the financing statement has lapsed under section 1309.515 of the Revised Code 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 in the filing office described in divis...

...penses for redacting information, the release of which is prohibited by law. (3) As used in division (F)(2) of this section: (a) "Actual cost" means the cost of depleted supplies, records storage media costs, actual mailing and alternative delivery costs, or other transmitting costs, and any direct equipment operating and maintenance costs, including actual costs paid to private contractors for copying services. (...

...Delay by the filing office beyond a time limit prescribed by sections 1309.501 to 1309.527 of the Revised Code is excused if: (A) The delay is caused by interruption of communication or computer facilities, war, emergency conditions, failure of equipment, or other circumstances beyond control of the filing office; and (B) The filing office exercises reasonable diligence under the circumstances.

...(A) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, the fee for filing and indexing a record under sections 1309.501 to 1309.527 of the Revised Code is twelve dollars. (B) The fee for responding to a request for information from the filing office, including for communicating whether there is on file any financing statement naming a particular debtor is: (1) Twenty dollars if the request is communicated in writi...

...(A) The secretary of state shall adopt rules to implement this chapter. The filing-office rules shall be: (1) Consistent with this chapter; and (2) Adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. (B) To keep the filing-office rules and practices of the filing office in harmony with the rules and practices of filing offices in other jurisdictions that enact substantially sections 1309.501 to 1309.527 o...

...The secretary of state shall report by December 31 in each even-numbered year to the general assembly on the operation of the filing office. The report shall contain a statement of the extent to which: (A) The filing-office rules are not in harmony with the rules of filing offices in other jurisdictions that enact substantially sections 1309.501 to 1309.527 of the Revised Code and the reasons for these variations;...

...the credit of the corporate and uniform commercial code filing fund, which is hereby created. The fund shall also receive revenue from fees charged to customers for special database requests. All moneys credited to the fund shall be used for the purpose of paying for the operations of the office of the secretary of state and for the purpose of paying for expenses relating to the processing of filings under Title XIII...