(b)__Sixty dollars if the financing statement indicates that it is filed in connection with a manufactured-home transaction.

(3)__The number of names required to be indexed does not affect the amount of the fee in subsections (1) and (2).

(4)__The fee for responding to a request for information from the filing office, including for communicating whether there is on file any financing statement naming a particular debtor, is:

(a) Twenty dollars if the request is communicated in writing; and

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

(5)__This section does not require a fee with respect to a record of a mortgage that is effective as a financing statement filed as a fixture filing or as a financing statement covering as-extracted collateral or timber to be cut under section 9-1502, subsection (3).__However, the recording and satisfaction fees that otherwise would be applicable to the record of the mortgage apply.

Official Comment

1. Source. Various sections of former Part 4.

2. Fees. This section contains all fee requirements for filing, indexing, and responding to requests for information. Uniformity in the fee structure (but not necessarily in the amount of fees) makes this Article easier for secured parties to use and reduces the likelihood that a filed record will be rejected for failure to pay at least the correct amount of the fee. See Section 9-516(b)(2) [Maine cite section 9-1516, subsection (2), paragraph (b)].

The costs of processing electronic records are less than those with respect to written records. Accordingly, this section mandates a lower fee as an incentive to file electronically and imposes the additional charge (if any) for multiple debtors only with respect to written records. When written records are used, this Article encourages the use of the uniform forms in Section 9-521 [Maine cite section 9-1521]. The fee for filing these forms should be no greater than the fee for other written records.