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Tennessee Code Title 47. Commercial Instruments and Transactions § 47-9-516

Current as of January 02, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) WHAT CONSTITUTES FILING. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), 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.

(b) REFUSAL TO ACCEPT RECORD; FILING DOES NOT OCCUR. 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) The amount that is tendered is not equal to or greater than the sum of the applicable filing fee plus recording tax under § 67-4-409(b), if any, based on the representation of indebtedness required thereunder;

(3) The filing office is unable to index the record because:

(A) In the case of an initial financing statement, the record does not provide a name for the debtor;

(B) In the case of an amendment or information statement, the record:

(i) Does not identify the initial financing statement as required by § 47-9-512 or § 47-9-518, as applicable; or

(ii) Identifies an initial financing statement whose effectiveness has lapsed under § 47-9-515;

(C) In the case of 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 which was not previously provided in the financing statement to which the record relates, the record does not identify the debtor's surname; or

(D) In the case of a record filed in the filing office described in § 47-9-501(a)(1), the record does not provide the name of the debtor and a sufficient description of the real property to which it relates;

(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 which 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 § 47-9-514(a) or an amendment filed under § 47-9-514(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 § 47-9-515(d); or

(8) The record does not contain, either on its face or in an accompanying sworn statement, the language required under § 67-4-409(b)(6)(C) with respect to the recording tax imposed under § 67-4-409(b), if any.

(c) RULES APPLICABLE TO SUBSECTION (b). For purposes of subsection (b):

(1) A record does not provide information if the filing office is unable to read or decipher the information; and

(2) A record that does not indicate that it is an amendment or identify an initial financing statement to which it relates, as required by § 47-9-512, § 47-9-514, or § 47-9-518, is an initial financing statement.

(d) REFUSAL TO ACCEPT RECORD; RECORD EFFECTIVE AS FILED RECORD. 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 forth in subsection (b), is effective as a filed record except as against a purchaser of the collateral which gives value in reasonable reliance upon the absence of the record from the files.

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