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...(A) A filed financing statement remains effective with respect 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...

...(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 ...

... connection with a public-finance transaction or manufactured-home transaction is effective for a period of thirty years after the date of filing if it indicates that it is filed in connection with a public-finance transaction or manufactured-home transaction. (C) The effectiveness of a filed financing statement lapses on the expiration of the period of its effectiveness unless, before the lapse, a continuatio...

...(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 ...

...ed 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) 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) To the extent that the laws of this state provide for indexing of records of mortgages unde...

...he 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 record for filing, it shall communicate to the person who presented the record the fact of and reason for the refusal and the date and time the record would have been filed had the filing office accepted it. The communication must be made at t...

...(A) A filing office that accepts written records may not refuse to accept a written initial financing statement in the form and format set forth in the official text of the 2010 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 t...

...(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...

...(E) The filing office shall perform the acts required by divisions (A) to (D) of this section at the time and in the manner prescribed by the filing-office rule but not later than two business days after the filing office receives the request. (F)(1) At least weekly, the filing office shall offer to sell or license to the public on a nonexclusive basis, in bulk, copies of all records filed in it under sections 1309....

...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.

...s a financing statement covering as-extracted collateral or timber to be cut under division (C) of section 1309.502 of the Revised Code. However, the recording and satisfaction fees that otherwise would be applicable to the record of the mortgage apply. (D) Any person may request from the secretary of state a copy of any financing statement naming a particular debtor, owner, or lessee, and of any statement of assign...

...) 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 of the Revised Code, and to keep the technology used by the filing office compatible with the technology used by filing offices in other jurisdictions that enact substantially those sections, the secretary of state,...

...g offices in other jurisdictions that enact substantially sections 1309.501 to 1309.527 of the Revised Code and the reasons for these variations; and (B) The filing-office rules are not in harmony with the most recent version of the model rules promulgated by the international association of corporate administrators, or any successor organization, and the reasons for these variations.

...All fees collected by the secretary of state for filings under Title XIII or XVII of the Revised Code shall be deposited into the state treasury to 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 ...

...(A) The secretary of state shall distribute to the county recorders of the counties of this state an amount equal to the fees collected by the secretary of state for filing and indexing financing statements communicated to the office of the secretary of state in writing under division (A) of section 1309.525 of the Revised Code, to the extent that the general assembly appropriates money for that purpose, multiplied b...

...(A) After default, a secured party has the rights provided in sections 1309.601 to 1309.628 of the Revised Code and, except as otherwise provided in section 1309.602 of the Revised Code, those provided by agreement of the parties. A secured party: (1) May reduce a claim to judgment, foreclose, or otherwise enforce the claim, security interest, or agricultural lien by any available judicial procedure; and (2)...

...o the acceptance of collateral in satisfaction of obligation; (K) Section 1309.623 of the Revised Code, which relates to redemption of collateral; (L) Section 1309.624 of the Revised Code, which relates to permissible waivers; and (M) Sections 1309.625 and 1309.626 of the Revised Code, which relate to the secured party's liability for failure to comply with this chapter.