Section 9--502. Contents of Financing Statement; Record of Mortgage asFinancing Statement; Time of Filing Financing
Statement; Contents of Cooperative Addendum.
(a) Sufficiency of financing statement. Subject to subsection (b), a financing statement is sufficient only if it:
(1) provides the name of the debtor;
(2) provides the name of the secured party or a representative of
the secured party;
(3) indicates the collateral covered by the financing statement;
and
(4) in the case of a cooperative interest, indicates the number
or other designation and the street address of the
cooperative unit.
(b) Real-property-related financing statements. Except as otherwise provided in Section 9--501(b), to be sufficient, a financing statement that covers as-extracted collateral or timber to be cut, or which is filed as a fixture filing and covers goods that are or are to become fixtures, or, unless a cooperative addendum is filed, which covers a cooperative interest, must satisfy subsection (a) and also:
(1) indicate that it covers this type of collateral;
(2) indicate that it is to be filed in the real property records;
(3) provide a description of the real property to which the
collateral is related, including the location of the real
estate by reference to a book and page number in a deed or
mortgage index maintained in the county clerk's office in the
county where the property is situate or by street and number
and town or city, or, if the real estate is in the city of
New York, by county, except that if the real estate is in the
city of New York or counties of Nassau or Onondaga, where the
block system of recording or registering and indexing
conveyances is in use, the statement must also specify the
block and lot number in which the real estate is situated;
and
(4) if the debtor does not have an interest of record in the real
property, provide the name of a record owner.
(c) Record of mortgage as financing statement. A record of a mortgage is effective, from the date of recording, as a financing statement filed as a fixture filing or as a financing statement covering as-extracted collateral or timber to be cut only if:
(1) the record indicates the goods or accounts that it covers;
(2) the goods are or are to become fixtures related to the real
property described in the record or the collateral is related
to the real property described in the record and is
as-extracted collateral or timber to be cut;
(3) the record satisfies the requirements for a financing
statement in this section, but:
(A) the record need not indicate that it is to be filed in
the real property records; and
(B) the record sufficiently provides the name of a debtor who
is an individual if it provides the individual name of
the debtor or the surname and first personal name of the
debtor, even if the debtor is an individual to whom
Section 9--503(a)(4) applies; and
(4) the record is duly recorded.
(d) Filing before security agreement or attachment. A financing statement may be filed before a security agreement is made or a security interest otherwise attaches.
(e) Contents of cooperative addendum. A cooperative addendum is sufficient only if it satisfies subsection (a) and also:
(1) if not filed simultaneously with the initial financing
statement, identifies, by its file number, the initial
financing statement to which the addendum relates;
(2) indicates the street address of the cooperative unit;
(3) indicates the county in which the cooperative unit is
located;
(4) indicates the city, town, or village in which the cooperative
unit is located;
(5) indicates the real property tax designation associated with
the real property in which the cooperative unit is located as
assigned by the local real property tax assessing authority;
and
(6) indicates the name of the cooperative organization.
Last modified: February 3, 2019