WHAT CONSTITUTES FILING; EFFECTIVENESS OF FILING (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (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 amount equal to or greater than the applicable filing fee is not tendered; (3) the filing office is unable to index the record because: (A) in the case of an initial financing statement, the record does not provide a name for the debtor; (B) in the case of an amendment or correction statement, the record: (i) does not identify the initial financing statement as required by Section 1-9-512 or 1-9-518 of this title, as applicable; or (ii) identifies an initial financing statement whose effectiveness has lapsed under Section 1-9-515 of this title; (C) in the case of an initial financing statement that provides the name of a debtor identified as an individual or an amendment that provides a name of a debtor identified as an individual which was not previously provided in the financing statement to which the record relates, the record does not identify the debtor's surname; or (D) in the case of a record filed or recorded in the filing office described in paragraph (1) of subsection (a) of Section 1-9-501 of this title, the record does not provide a sufficient description of the real property to which it relates; (4) in the case of an initial financing statement or an amendment that adds a secured party of record, the record does not provide a name and mailing address for the secured party of record; (5) in the case of an initial financing statement or an amendment that provides a name of a debtor which was not previously provided in the financing statement to which the amendment relates, the record does not: (A) provide a mailing address for the debtor; or (B) indicate whether the name provided as the name of the debtor is the name of an individual or an organization; (6) in the case of an assignment reflected in an initial financing statement under paragraph (a) of Section 1-9-514 of this
title or an amendment filed under subsection (b) of Section 1-9-514 of this title, the record does not provide a name and mailing address for the assignee; or (7) in the case of a continuation statement, the record is not filed within the six-month period prescribed by subsection (d) of Section 1-9-515 of this title. (c) For purposes of subsection (b) of this section: (1) a record does not provide information if the filing office is unable to read or decipher the information; and (2) a record that does not indicate that it is an amendment or identify an initial financing statement to which it relates, as required by Section 1-9-512, 1-9-514, or 1-9-518 of this title, is an initial financing statement. (d) A record that is communicated to the filing office with tender of the filing fee, but which the filing office refuses to accept for a reason other than one set forth in subsection (b) of this section, is effective as a filed record except as against a purchaser of the collateral which gives value in reasonable reliance upon the absence of the record from the files. Added by Laws 2000, c. 371, § 94, eff. July 1, 2001. Amended by Laws 2015, c. 374, § 13, eff. Nov. 1, 2015.