Special transitional provision for maintaining and searching local filing office records

409.710 Special transitional provision for maintaining and searching local filing office records. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section: (a) “Former-ch.-409 records”: 1. Means: a. Financing statements and other records that have been filed in a local filing office before July 1, 2001, and that are, or upon processing and indexing will be, reflected in the index maintained, as of June 30, 2001, by the local filing office for financing statements and other records filed in the local filing office before July 1, 2001; and b. The index as of June 30, 2001. 2. Does not include records presented to a local filing office for filing after June 30, 2001, whether or not the records relate to financing statements filed in the local filing office before July 1, 2001. (b) “Local filing office” means a filing office, other than the department of financial institutions, that is designated as the proper place to file a financing statement under s. 409.401 (1), 1999 stats., with respect to a record that covers a type of collateral as to which the filing office is designated in that subsection as the proper place to file. (2) PROHIBITION OF FILING AFTER JUNE 30, 2001. A local filing office shall not accept for filing a record presented after June 30, 2001, whether or not the record relates to a financing statement filed in the local filing office before July 1, 2001. (3) MAINTENANCE OF RECORDS. Until July 1, 2008, each local filing office must maintain all former-ch.-409 records in accordance with ch. 409, 1999 stats. A former-ch.-409 record that is not reflected on the index maintained at June 30, 2001, by the local filing office must be processed and indexed, and reflected SUBCHAPTER VIII TRANSITION PROVISIONS FOR 2010 AMENDMENTS