| | | statement for at least one year after lapse. During that time, | | the filing office may not delete any information with respect to | | a filed financing statement; it may only add information. This | | approach relieves the filing office from any duty to determine | | whether to substitute or delete information upon receipt of an | | amendment. It also assures searchers that they will receive all | | information with respect to financing statements filed against a | | debtor and thereby be able themselves to determine the state of | | the public record. |
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| | | The filing office may maintain this information in any medium. | | Subsection (b) [Maine cite subsection (2)] permits the filing | | office immediately to destroy written records evidencing a | | financing statement, provided that the filing office maintains | | another record of the information contained in the financing | | statement as required by subsection (a) [Maine cite subsection | | (1)]. |
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| | | §9-1523.__Information from filing office; sale or license of |
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| | | (1)__If a person that files a written record requests an | | acknowledgment of the filing, the filing office shall send to the | | person an image of the record showing the number assigned to the | | record pursuant to section 9-1519, subsection (1), paragraph (a) | | and the date and time of the filing of the record.__However, if | | the person furnishes a copy of the record to the filing office, | | the filing office may instead: |
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| | | (a)__Note upon the copy the number assigned to the record | | pursuant to section 9-1519, subsection (1), paragraph (a) | | and the date and time of the filing of the record; and |
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| | | (b)__Send the copy to the person. |
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| | | (2)__If a person files a record other than a written record, | | the filing office shall communicate to the person an | | acknowledgment that provides: |
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| | | (a)__The information in the record; |
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| | | (b)__The number assigned to the record pursuant to section | | 9-1519, subsection (1), paragraph (a); and |
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| | | (c)__The date and time of the filing of the record. |
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| | | (3)__The filing office shall communicate or otherwise make | | available in a record the following information to any person | | that requests it: |
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