1360-08-01-.02
Means To Deliver Ucc Records
Cite as Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 1360-08-01-.02
UCC records may be tendered for filing at the
filing office as follows:
(1)
Personal delivery by remitter, at the filing office’s street address. The file time for a UCC
record delivered by this method is based on the file date and file time assigned by the
scanner software when the document is scanned by the filing office, even though the UCC
record may not yet have been accepted for filing and subsequently may be rejected. This rule
applies only to a remitter who tenders a UCC record to the filing office and awaits an
immediate determination of whether the UCC record will be taken.
(2)
Courier delivery by a person other than a remitter, at the filing office’s street address. The file
time for a UCC record delivered by this method is based on the file date and file time
assigned by the scanner software when the document is scanned by the filing office, even
though the UCC record may not yet have been accepted for filing and subsequently may be
rejected. This rule does not apply to a courier who is acting as an agent of the remitter and
who tenders a UCC record to the filing office and awaits an immediate determination of
whether the UCC record will be taken under Rule 1360-08-01-.02(1).
(3)
Postal service delivery, to the filing office’s mailing address. The file time for a UCC record
delivered by this method is based on the file date and file time assigned by the scanner
software when the document is scanned by the filing office, even though the UCC record may
not yet have been accepted for filing and subsequently may be rejected.
(4)
Reserved.
(5)
Reserved.
(6)
Electronic data entry. UCC records may be delivered by electronic data entry using the filing
office’s website on the Internet. The file time for a UCC record delivered by this method is the
time the entry of all required elements of the UCC record in the proper format is
acknowledged by the online entry system and confirmation is received that all fees and taxes
that constitute the payment have been received.
(7)
Means of communication. Regardless of the method of delivery, information submitted to the
UCC filing office must be communicated only in the form of characters that are defined in an
acceptable character set. A financing statement or amendment form that does not designate
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separate fields for organization and individual names and separate fields for first, middle, and
last names and suffixes for individual names is not an acceptable means of communication to
the filing office.
(8)
Transmitting utility, manufactured home, and public finance transactions. The only means to
indicate to the filing office that an initial financing statement is being filed in connection with a
manufactured home or public finance transaction or that a financing statement is being or has
been filed against a debtor that is a transmitting utility, in order to affect the filing office’s
determination of the lapse date under Rule 1360-08-03-.07(3) or Rule 1360-08-03-.08, is to
check the appropriate box on a UCC-1 addendum filed with respect to the financing
statement or to transmit the requisite information in the proper field in an electronic filing that
is such initial financing statement or is a part of such financing statement.