Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.522 · Subchapter E. FILING
MAINTENANCE AND DESTRUCTION OF RECORDS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(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 9.515 with respect to all secured parties of record. The record must be retrievable by using the name of the debtor and by using the file number assigned to the initial financing statement to which the record relates.
(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 that complies with Subsection (a).
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History
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 414, Sec. 1.01, eff. July 1, 2001.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.9.htm
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