Montana Code 30-9A-522. Maintenance and destruction of records
30-9A-522. Maintenance and destruction of records. (1) Subject to the requirements of Title 2, chapter 6, part 11, the filing office shall maintain a record of the information provided in a filed financing statement for at least 1 year after the effectiveness of the filed financing statement has lapsed under 30-9A-515 with respect to all secured parties of record. The record must be retrievable by using the name of the debtor and:
Terms Used In Montana Code 30-9A-522
- Debtor: means :
(i)a person having a property interest, other than a security interest or other lien, in the collateral, whether or not the person is an obligor;
(ii)a seller of accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, or promissory notes; or
(iii)a consignee. See Montana Code 30-9A-102
- File number: means the number assigned to an initial financing statement pursuant to 30-9A-519(1). See Montana Code 30-9A-102
- Filing office: means an office designated in 30-9A-501 as the place to file a financing statement. See Montana Code 30-9A-102
- Financing statement: means a record or records composed of an initial financing statement and any filed record relating to the initial financing statement. See Montana Code 30-9A-102
- Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
(a)if the record was filed or recorded in the filing office described in 30-9A-501(1)(a), by using the file number assigned to the initial financing statement to which the record relates and the date and time that the record was filed or recorded; or
(b)if the record was filed or recorded in the filing office described in 30-9A-501(1)(b), by using the date and time file number assigned to the initial financing statement to which the record relates.
(2)Except to the extent that a statute governing disposition of public records provides otherwise, the filing office may immediately destroy any written record evidencing a financing statement. However, if the filing office destroys a written record, it shall maintain another record of the financing statement that complies with subsection (1).