9. Sales of Records in Bulk. Subsection (f) [Maine cite subsection (6)], which is new, mandates that the appropriate official or the filing office sell or license the filing records to the public in bulk, on a nonexclusive basis, in every medium available to the filing office. The details of implementation are left to filing-office rules.

§9-1524.__Delay by filing office

Delay by the filing office beyond a time limit prescribed by this part is excused if:

(1)__The delay is caused by interruption of communication or computer facilities, war, emergency conditions, failure of equipment or other circumstances beyond control of the filing office; and

(2)__The filing office exercises reasonable diligence under the circumstances.

Official Comment

Source. New; derived from Section 4-109.

§9-1525.__Fees

(1)__Except as otherwise provided in subsection (5), the fee for filing and indexing a record under this part, other than an initial financing statement of the kind described in section 9- 1502, subsection (3) is:

(a) Twenty dollars if the record is communicated in writing and consists of one or 2 pages;

(b) Forty dollars if the record is communicated in writing and consists of more than 2 pages; and

(c) Ten dollars if the record is communicated by another medium authorized by filing-office rule.

(2)__Except as otherwise provided in subsection (5), the fee for filing and indexing an initial financing statement of the kind described in section 9-1502, subsection (3) is: