Maintenance and Destruction of Records.
RSA 382-A:9-522
in effect382-A:9-522. Maintenance and Destruction of Records.
(a)Post-lapse maintenance and retrieval of information. The filing office shall maintain a record of the information provided in a filed financing statement for at least one year after the effectiveness of the financing statement has lapsed under Section 9-515 with respect to all secured parties of record. The record must be retrievable by using the name of the debtor and:
(1) if the record was filed or recorded in the filing office described in Section 9-501(a)(1), by using: the information specified in Section 9-502(b)(4); or
(2) if the record was filed in the filing office described in Section 9-501(a)(2), by using the file number assigned to the initial financing statement to which the record relates.
(b)Destruction of written records. Except to the extent that a statute governing disposition of public records provides otherwise, the filing office immediately may 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 which complies with subsection (a).
Source. 2001, 102:25, eff. July 1, 2001.
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