| [Maine cite subsection (5)] specifies the effect of a | continuation statement and provides for successive continuation | statements. |
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| §9-1516.__What constitutes filing; effectiveness of filing |
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| | (1)__Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2), | 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. |
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| | (2)__Filing does not occur with respect to a record that a | filing office refuses to accept because: |
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| (a)__The record is not communicated by a method or medium of | communication authorized by the filing office; |
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| (b)__An amount equal to or greater than the applicable | filing fee is not tendered; |
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| (c)__The filing office is unable to index the record | because: |
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| (i)__In the case of an initial financing statement, the | record does not provide a name for the debtor; |
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| (ii)__In the case of an amendment or correction | statement, the record: |
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| (A)__Does not identify the initial financing | statement as required by section 9-1512 or 9-1518, | as applicable; or |
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| (B)__Identifies an initial financing statement | whose effectiveness has lapsed under section 9- | 1515; |
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| (iii)__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 that was not | previously provided in the financing statement to which | the record relates, the record does not identify the | debtor's last name; or |
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| (iv)__In the case of a record filed in the filing | office described in section 9-1501, subsection (1), | paragraph (a), the record does not provide a sufficient | description of the real property to which it relates; |
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