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Code · UCC · UCC Article 9 — Secured Transactions · § 9-525

§ 9-525. 9-525

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(a)[Initial financing statement or other record: general rule.] Except as otherwise provided in subsection (e), the fee for filing and indexing a record under this part, other than an initial financing statement of the kind described in subsection
(b), is [the amount specified in subsection (c), if applicable, plus]:
(1)$ \\[X]\\\\\\ if the record is communicated in writing and consists of one or two pages;
(2)$ \\[2X]\\\\\\ if the record is communicated in writing and consists of more than two pages; and
(3)$ \\[1/2X]\\\ if the record is communicated by another medium authorized by filing-office rule .
(b)[Initial financing statement: public-finance and manufactured-housing transactions.] Except as otherwise provided in subsection (e), the fee for filing and indexing an initial financing statement of the following kind is [the amount specified in subsection (c), if applicable, plus]:
(1)$ \\\\\ if the financing statement indicates that it is filed in connection with a public-finance transaction ;
(2)$ \\\\\ if the financing statement indicates that it is filed in connection with a manufactured-home transaction . [Alternative A]
(c)[Number of names.] The number of names required to be indexed does not affect the amount of the fee in subsections
(a)and (b). [Alternative B]
(c)[Number of names.] Except as otherwise provided in subsection (e), if a record is communicated in writing, the fee for each name more than two required to be indexed is $ \\\\\\. [End of Alternatives]
(d)[Response to information request.] The fee for responding to a request for information from the filing office , including for [issuing a certificate showing] [communicating] whether there is on file any financing statement naming a particular debtor , is:
(1)$ \\\\ if the request is communicated in writing; and
(2)$ \\\\ if the request is communicated by another medium authorized by filing-office rule .
(e)[Record of mortgage.] This section does not require a fee with respect to a record of a mortgage which 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 9-502(c) . However, the recording and satisfaction fees that otherwise would be applicable to the record of the mortgage apply.
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