Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.515 · Subchapter E. FILING
DURATION AND EFFECTIVENESS OF FINANCING STATEMENT; EFFECT OF LAPSED FINANCING STATEMENT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Except as otherwise provided in Subsections (b)-(g), a filed financing statement is effective for a period of five years after the date of filing.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in Subsections (e), (f), and (g), an initial financing statement filed in connection with a public-finance transaction or manufactured-home transaction is effective for a period of 30 years after the date of filing if it indicates that it is filed in connection with a public-finance transaction or manufactured-home transaction.
(c) The effectiveness of a filed financing statement lapses on the expiration of the period of its effectiveness unless before the lapse a continuation statement is filed pursuant to Subsection (d). Upon lapse, a financing statement ceases to be effective and any security interest or agricultural lien that was perfected by the financing statement becomes unperfected, unless the security interest is perfected otherwise. If the security interest or agricultural lien becomes unperfected upon lapse, it is deemed never to have been perfected as against a purchaser of the collateral for value.
(d) Except as otherwise provided by Section 9.5185(m), a continuation statement may be filed only within six months before the expiration of the five-year period specified in Subsection (a) or the 30-year period specified in Subsection (b), whichever is applicable.
(e) Except as otherwise provided in Section 9.510, upon timely filing of a continuation statement, the effectiveness of the initial financing statement continues for a period of five years commencing on the day on which the financing statement would have become ineffective in the absence of the filing. Upon the expiration of the five-year period, the financing statement lapses in the same manner as provided in Subsection (c), unless, before the lapse, another continuation statement is filed pursuant to Subsection (d). Succeeding continuation statements may be filed in the same manner to continue the effectiveness of the initial financing statement.
(f) If a debtor is a transmitting utility and a filed initial financing statement so indicates, the financing statement is effective until a termination statement is filed.
(g) A record of a mortgage that 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) remains effective as a financing statement filed as a fixture filing or as a financing statement covering as-extracted collateral or timber to be cut until the mortgage is released or satisfied of record or its effectiveness otherwise terminates as to the real property.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 414, Sec. 1.01, eff. July 1, 2001. Amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 917, Sec. 5, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
Amended by:
Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 67 (S.B. 782), Sec. 14, eff. July 1, 2013.
Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1016 (S.B. 2221), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2025.
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Provisions in this library that the text above cites, as it prints each citation. A range cited as “ss. 61.13-61.16” links its first and last provisions.
Business & Commerce Code
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.502CONTENTS OF FINANCING STATEMENT; RECORD OF MORTGAGE AS FINANCING STATEMENT; TIME OF FILING FINANCING STATEMENT.Printed as Section 9.502(c)
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.510EFFECTIVENESS OF FILED RECORD.Printed as Section 9.510
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.5185FRAUDULENT FILING.Printed as Section 9.5185(m)
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Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.515. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Business & Commerce Code
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.315SECURED PARTY'S RIGHTS ON DISPOSITION OF COLLATERAL AND IN PROCEEDS.Printed as Section 9.515
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.510EFFECTIVENESS OF FILED RECORD.Printed as Section 9.515(d)
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.512AMENDMENT OF FINANCING STATEMENT.Printed as Section 9.515
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.516WHAT CONSTITUTES FILING; EFFECTIVENESS OF FILING.Printed as Section 9.515 | Section 9.515(d)
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.5185FRAUDULENT FILING.Printed as Section 9.515(d)
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.519NUMBERING, MAINTAINING, AND INDEXING RECORDS; COMMUNICATING INFORMATION PROVIDED IN RECORDS.Printed as Section 9.515
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.522MAINTENANCE AND DESTRUCTION OF RECORDS.Printed as Section 9.515
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.523INFORMATION FROM FILING OFFICE; SALE OR LICENSE OF RECORDS.Printed as Section 9.515
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.706WHEN INITIAL FINANCING STATEMENT SUFFICES TO CONTINUE EFFECTIVENESS OF FINANCING STATEMENT.Printed as Section 9.515
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.806WHEN INITIAL FINANCING STATEMENT SUFFICES TO CONTINUE EFFECTIVENESS OF FINANCING STATEMENT.Printed as Section 9.515
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