Florida Statutes Part V - Filing (Ss. 679.5011-679.527)

• 679.5011 - Filing Office.
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2), the office in which to file a financing statement to perfect a security interest or agricultural lien is:(a) The...
• 679.5021 - Contents Of Financing Statement; Record Of Mortgage As Financing Statement; Time Of Filing Financing Statement.
  (1) Subject to subsection (2), a financing statement is sufficient only if it:(a) Provides the name of the debtor;(b) Provides the name of the secured party or a...
• 679.5031 - Name Of Debtor And Secured Party.
  (1) A financing statement sufficiently provides the name of the debtor:(a) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (c), if the debtor is a registered organization or the...
• 679.5041 - Indication Of Collateral.
  A financing statement sufficiently indicates the collateral that it covers if the financing statement provides:(1) A description of the collateral pursuant to s. 679.1081; or(2) An indication...
• 679.5051 - Filing And Compliance With Other Statutes And Treaties For Consignments, Leases, Bailments, And Other Transactions.
  (1) A consignor, lessor, or bailor of goods, a licensor, or a buyer of a payment intangible or promissory note may file a financing statement, or...
• 679.5061 - Effect Of Errors Or Omissions.
  (1) A financing statement substantially complying with the requirements of this part is effective, even if it has minor errors or omissions, unless the errors or...
• 679.5071 - Effect Of Certain Events On Effectiveness Of Financing Statement.
  (1) A filed financing statement remains effective with respect to collateral that is sold, exchanged, leased, licensed, or otherwise disposed of and in which a security...
• 679.508 - Effectiveness Of Financing Statement If New Debtor Becomes Bound By Security Agreement.
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a filed financing statement naming an original debtor is effective to perfect a security interest in collateral in...
• 679.509 - Persons Entitled To File A Record.
  (1) A person may file an initial financing statement, amendment that adds collateral covered by a financing statement, or amendment that adds a debtor to a...
• 679.510 - Effectiveness Of Filed Record.
  (1) A filed record is effective only to the extent that it was filed by a person who may file it under s. 679.509.(2) A record authorized...
• 679.511 - Secured Party Of Record.
  (1) A secured party of record with respect to a financing statement is a person whose name is provided as the name of the secured party...
• 679.512 - Amendment Of Financing Statement.
  (1) Subject to s. 679.509, a person may add or delete collateral covered by, continue or terminate the effectiveness of, or, subject to subsection (5), otherwise...
• 679.513 - Termination Statement.
  (1) A secured party shall cause the secured party of record for a financing statement to file a termination statement for the financing statement if the...
• 679.514 - Assignment Of Powers Of Secured Party Of Record.
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (3), an initial financing statement may reflect an assignment of all of the secured party’s power to authorize an...
• 679.515 - Duration And Effectiveness Of Financing Statement; Effect Of Lapsed Financing Statement.
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (2), (5), (6), and (7), a filed financing statement is effective for a period of 5 years after the...
• 679.516 - What Constitutes Filing; Effectiveness Of Filing.
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2), communication of a record to a filing office and tender of the processing fee or acceptance of the...
• 679.517 - Effect Of Indexing Errors.
  The failure of the filing office to index a record correctly does not affect the effectiveness of the filed record.History.—s. 6, ch. 2001-198.
• 679.518 - Claim Concerning Inaccurate Or Wrongfully Filed Record.
  (1) A person may file in the filing office an information statement with respect to a record indexed there under the person’s name if the person...
• 679.519 - Numbering, Maintaining, And Indexing Records; Communicating Information Provided In Records.
  (1) For each record filed in a filing office, the filing office shall:(a) Assign a unique number to the filed record;(b) Create a record that bears the number...
• 679.520 - Acceptance And Refusal To Accept Record.
  (1) A filing office shall refuse to accept a record for filing for a reason set forth in s. 679.516(2) and may refuse to accept a...
• 679.521 - Uniform Form Of Written Financing Statement And Amendment.
  The Secretary of State shall develop or approve acceptable forms for use in filing under this chapter. Such forms must be in accord with the...
• 679.522 - Maintenance And Destruction Of Records.
  (1) The filing office shall maintain a record of the information provided in a filed financing statement for at least 1 year after the effectiveness of...
• 679.523 - Information From Filing Office; Sale Or License Of Records.
  (1) If a person files a written record, the filing office shall make available, on the database, an image of the record showing the number assigned...
• 679.524 - 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...
• 679.525 - Processing Fees.
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (3), the nonrefundable processing fee for filing and indexing a record under this part, other than an initial financing...
• 679.526 - Filing-office Rules.
  The Department of State may adopt and publish rules to administer this chapter. The filing-office rules must be:(1) Consistent with this chapter.(2) Adopted and published in accordance...
• 679.527 - Florida Secured Transaction Registry.
  (1) As used in this section, the term:(a) The “Florida Secured Transaction Registry” or “registry” means the centralized database in which all initial financing statements, amendments, assignments,...

Last modified: September 23, 2016