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13. USE THIS SPACE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

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THIS SPACE IS FOR FILING OFFICE USE ONLY

FILING OFFICE COPY - NATIONAL UCC FINANCING STATEMENT AMENDMENT ADDENDUM (FORM UCC3Ad) (REV. 07/29/98)

(3) A form that a filing office may not refuse to accept under subsection (1) or (2) must conform to the format prescribed for the form by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.

Official Comment

1. Source. New.

2. "Safe Harbor" Written Forms. Although Section 9-520 [Maine cite section 9-1520] limits the bases upon which the filing office can refuse to accept records, this section provide sample written forms that must be accepted in every filing office in the country, as long as the filing office's rules permit it to accept written communications. By completing one of the forms in this section, a secured party can be certain that the filing office is obligated to accept it.

The forms in this section are based upon national financing statement forms that were in use under former Article 9. Those forms were developed over an extended period and reflect the comments and suggestions of filing officers, secured parties and their counsel, and service companies. The formatting of those forms and of the ones in this section has been designed to reduce error by both filers and filing offices.

A filing office that accepts written communications may not reject, on grounds of form or format, a filing using these forms. Although filers are not required to use the forms, they are encouraged and can be expected to do so, inasmuch as the forms are well designed and avoid the risk of rejection on the basis of form or format. As their use expands, the forms will rapidly become familiar to both filers and filing-office