(a) For each record filed in a filing office, the filing office shall

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Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 45.29.519

  • 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.
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
  • 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.
  • state: means the State of Alaska unless applied to the different parts of the United States and in the latter case it includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
(1) assign a 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 (c) – (e) of this section.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in (i) of this section, a file number assigned after January 1, 2002, must include a digit that

(1) is mathematically derived from or related to the other digits of the file number; and
(2) aids the filing office in determining whether a number communicated as the file number includes a single digit or transpositional error.
(c) Except as otherwise provided in (d) and (e) of this section, the filing office shall index

(1) an initial financing statement according to the name of the debtor and index all filed records relating to the initial financing statement in a manner that associates with one another an initial financing statement and all filed records relating to the initial financing statement; and
(2) a record that provides a name of a debtor that was not previously provided in the financing statement to which the record relates also according to the name that was not previously provided.
(d) If a financing statement is filed 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 law of this state provides for indexing of mortgages under the name of the mortgagee, under the name of the secured party as if the secured party were the mortgagee thereunder, or, if indexing is by description, as if the financing statement were a mortgage of the real property described.
(e) If a financing statement is filed as a fixture filing or covers as-extracted collateral or timber to be cut, the filing office shall index an assignment filed under Alaska Stat. § 45.29.514(a) or an amendment filed under Alaska Stat. § 45.29.514(b)

(1) under the name of the assignor as grantor; and
(2) to the extent that the law of this state provides for indexing a record of the assignment of a mortgage under the name of the assignee, under the name of the assignee.
(f) The filing office shall maintain a capability to

(1) retrieve a record by the name of the debtor and, if the filing office is described in

(A)Alaska Stat. § 45.29.501(a)(1), by the file number assigned to the initial financing statement to which the record relates and the date that the record was filed for record; or
(B)Alaska Stat. § 45.29.501(a)(2), by the file number assigned to the initial financing statement to which the record relates; and
(2) associate and retrieve with one another an initial financing statement and each filed record relating to the initial financing statement.
(g) The filing office may not remove a debtor’s name from the index until one year after the effectiveness of a financing statement naming the debtor lapses under Alaska Stat. § 45.29.515 with respect to all secured parties of record.
(h) Except as otherwise provided in (i) of this section, the filing office shall perform the acts required by (a) – (e) of this section at the time and in the manner prescribed by filing office regulations, but not later than two business days after the filing office receives the record in question.
(i) The requirements of (b) and (h) of this section do not apply to a filing office described in Alaska Stat. § 45.29.501(a)(1).
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