(a) Except as otherwise provided in (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.
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Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 45.29.516

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • property: includes real and personal property. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
(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 i s not tendered;
(3) the filing office is unable to index the record because, in the case of

(A) an initial financing statement, the record does not provide a name for the debtor;
(B) an amendment or information statement, the record

(i) does not identify the initial financing statement as required by Alaska Stat. § 45.29.512 or 45.29.518, as applicable; or
(ii) identifies an initial financing statement whose effectiveness has lapsed under Alaska Stat. § 45.29.515;
(C) 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 that was not previously provided in the financing statement to which the record relates, the record does not identify the debtor’s surname;
(D) a record filed in the filing office described in Alaska Stat. § 45.29.501(a)(1) that relates to real property, the record does not provide a sufficient description of the real property to which it relates; or
(E) a fixture filing or other filing allowed to be filed for record in a filing office described in Alaska Stat. § 45.29.501(a)(1), the filing does not provide the name of the debtor and record owner;
(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 that 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 Alaska Stat. § 45.29.514(a) or an amendment filed under Alaska Stat. § 45.29.514(b), the record does not provide a name and mailing address for the assignee;
(7) in the case of a continuation statement, the record is not filed within the six-month period prescribed by Alaska Stat. § 45.29.515(d); or
(8) the record is not communicated on a form authorized by filing office regulation.
(c) For purposes of (b) of this section, a record

(1) does not provide information if the filing office is unable to read or decipher the information; and
(2) that does not indicate that it is an amendment or identify an initial financing statement to which it relates as required by Alaska Stat. § 45.29.512, 45.29.514, or 45.29.518 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 out in (b) of this section, is effective as a filed record except as against a purchaser of the collateral who gives value in reasonable reliance on the absence of the record from the files.
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