| | | (1)__A filing office shall refuse to accept a record for | | filing for a reason set forth in section 9-1516, subsection (2) | | and may refuse to accept a record for filing only for a reason | | set forth in section 9-1516, subsection (2). |
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| | | (2)__If a filing office refuses to accept a record for filing, | | it shall communicate to the person that presented the record the | | fact of and reason for the refusal and the date and time the | | record would have been filed had the filing office accepted it.__ | | The communication must be made at the time and in the manner | | prescribed by filing-office rule but, in the case of a filing | | office described in section 9-1501, subsection (1), paragraph | | (b), in no event more than 2 business days after the filing | | office receives the record. |
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| | | (3)__A filed financing statement satisfying section 9-1502, | | subsection (1) and (2) is effective even if the filing office is | | required to refuse to accept it for filing under subsection (1).__ | | However, section 9-1338 applies to a filed financing statement | | providing information described in section 9-1516, subsection | | (2), paragraph (e) that is incorrect at the time the financing | | statement is filed. |
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| | | (4)__If a record communicated to a filing office provides | | information that relates to more than one debtor, this part | | applies to each debtor separately. |
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| | | 2. Refusal to Accept Record for Filing. In some States, | | filing offices considered themselves obligated by former Article | | 9 to review the form and content of a financing statement and to | | refuse to accept those that they determine are legally | | insufficient. Some filing offices imposed requirements for or | | conditions to filing that do not appear in the statute. Under | | this section, the filing office is not expected to make legal | | judgments and is not permitted to impose additional conditions or | | requirements. |
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| | | Subsection (a) [Maine cite subsection (1)] both prescribes and | | limits the bases upon which the filing office must and may reject | | records by reference to the reasons set forth in Section 9-516(b) | | [Maine cite subsection 9-1516, subsection (2)]. For the most | | part, the bases for rejection are limited to those that prevent | | the filing office from dealing with a record that it receives- | | because some the requisite information (e.g., the debtor's name) | | is missing or cannot be deciphered, because the |
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