Iowa § 554.9522 Maintenance and destruction of records

Iowa Statutes

§ 554.9522 — Maintenance and destruction of records

Iowa § 554.9522

Title XIIICOMMERCE

Ch. 554UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE

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Iowa Code § 554.9522 (2026).

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1.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 554.9515 with respect to all securedpartiesofrecord. Therecordmustberetrievablebyusingthenameofthedebtorand:

a.if the record was filed or recorded in the filing office described in section 554.9501, subsection 1, paragraph “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 in the filing office described in section 554.9501, subsection 1, paragraph “b”, by using the file number assigned to the initia

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1. 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 554.9515 with respect to all
securedpartiesofrecord. Therecordmustberetrievablebyusingthenameofthedebtorand:
a. if the record was filed or recorded in the filing office described in section 554.9501,
subsection 1, paragraph “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 in the filing office described in section 554.9501, subsection 1,
paragraph “b”, by using the file number assigned to the initial financing statement to which
the record relates.
2. 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 1.