(1) For each record filed in a filing office, the filing office shall: (a) Assign a unique number to the filed record;
(b) Create a record that bears the number assigned to the filed record and the date and time of filing;

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Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 355.9-519

  • 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.
  • Owner: when applied to any animal, means any person having a property interest in such animal. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Year: means calendar year. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010

(c) Maintain the filed record for public inspection; and
(d) Index the filed record in accordance with subsections (3), (4), and (5) of this section.
(2) A file number must include a digit that:
(a) Is mathematically derived from or related to the other digits of the file number; and
(b) Aids the filing office in determining whether a number communicated as the file number includes a single-digit or transpositional error.
(3) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (4) and (5) of this section, the filing office shall:
(a) Index 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
(b) Index a record that provides a name of a debtor which was not previously provided in the financing statement to which the record relates also according to the name that was not previously provided.
(4) 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 it:
(a) 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
(b) To the extent that the law of this Commonwealth provides for indexing of records 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 record of a mortgage of the real property described.
(5) 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 KRS § 355.9-
514(1) or an amendment filed under KRS § 355.9-514(2): (a) Under the name of the assignor as grantor; and
(b) To the extent that the law of this Commonwealth provides for indexing a record of the assignment of a mortgage under the name of the assignee, under the name of the assignee.
(6) The filing office shall maintain a capability:
(a) To retrieve a record by the name of the debtor and by the file number assigned to the initial financing statement to which the record relates; and
(b) To associate and retrieve with one another an initial financing statement and each filed record relating to the initial financing statement.
(7) The filing office may not remove a debtor’s name from the index until one (1) year after the effectiveness of a financing statement naming the debtor lapses under KRS
355.9-515 with respect to all secured parties of record.
(8) The filing office shall perform the acts required by subsections (1) to (5) of this section at the time and in the manner prescribed by filing-office rule, but not later than two (2) business days after the filing office receives the record in question.
(9) Subsection (2) of this section does not apply to a filing office described in KRS
355.9-501(1)(a).
Effective: July 1, 2001
History: Created 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 408, sec. 110, effective July 1, 2001.