Colorado § 4-9-522 - Maintenance and destruction of records.
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§ 4-9-522. Maintenance and destruction of records.
(a) The filing office shall maintain a record of the information provided in a filed financing statement for at least one year after the effectiveness of the financing statement has lapsed under section 4-9-515 with respect to all secured parties of record. The record must be retrievable by using the name of the debtor and the file number assigned to the initial financing statement to which the record relates and the date that the record was filed or recorded.
(b) Except to the extent that a statute governing disposition of public records provides otherwise, the filing office immediately may destroy any written record evidencing a financing statement. However, if the filing office destroys a written record, it shall maintain another record of the financing statement which complies with subsection (a) of this section.
Source: L. 2001: Entire article R&RE, p. 1392, § 1, effective July 1.
Editor's note: (1) This section is similar to former § 4-9-403 (3) as it existed prior to 2001.
(2) Colorado legislative change: Colorado did not adopt the phrase "by using" after the phrase "debtor and" and added the phrase "and the date that the record was filed or recorded" in subsection (a).
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 4-9-522 ("Maintenance and destruction of records.") is part of the Colorado Revised Statutes, the codified statutory law of Colorado. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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