(810 ILCS 5/9-710)

Sec. 9-710. Local-filing office responsibilities for filings under the Uniform Commercial Code prior to this amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly.

(a) In this Section:

(1) "Local-filing office" means a filing office, other than the office of the Secretary of State, that is designated as the proper place to file a financing statement under Section 9-401(1) of the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect immediately before the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly. The term applies only with respect to a record that covers a type of collateral as to which the filing office is designated in that Section as the proper place to file.

(2) "Former-Article-9 records" means:

(A) financing statements and other records that have been filed in a local-filing office before July 1, 2001, and that are, or upon processing and indexing will be, reflected in the index maintained, as of June 30, 2001, by the local-filing office for financing statements and other records filed in the local filing office before July 1, 2001.

(B) the index as of June 30, 2001.

(b) Except for a record terminating a former-Article-9 record, a local-filing office must not accept for filing a record presented after June 30, 2001, whether or not the record relates to a financing statement filed in the local-filing office before July 1, 2001. If the record terminating such former-Article-9 record statement is in the standard form prescribed by the Secretary of State, the uniform fee for filing and indexing the termination statement in the office of a county recorder shall be $5 and otherwise shall be $10, plus in each case an additional fee of $5 for each name more than one at each address listed against which the record is required to be indexed.

(c) Until July 1, 2001, each local-filing office must maintain all former-Article-9 records in accordance with the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect immediately before the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly. A former-Article-9 record that is not reflected on the index maintained on June 30, 2001, by the local-filing office must be processed and indexed, and reflected on the index as of June 30, 2001, as soon as practicable but in any event no later than July 30, 2001.

(d) Until at least June 30, 2008, each local-filing office must respond to requests for information with respect to former-Article-9 records relating to a debtor and issue certificates, in accordance with the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect immediately before this amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly. The fees charged for responding to requests for information relating to the debtor issuing the certificates with respect to former-Article-9 records must be the fees in effect under the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect immediately before the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly on June 30, 2001, unless a different fee is later set by the local filing office. However, the different fee must not exceed $10 for responding to a request for information relating to a debtor or $10 for issuing a certificate.

(e) After June 30, 2008, each local-filing office may remove and destroy, in accordance with any then applicable record retention law of this State, all former-Article-9 records, including the related index.

(f) This Section does not apply, with respect to financing statements and other records, to a filing office in which mortgages or records of mortgages on real property are required to be filed or recorded if:

(1) the collateral is timber to be cut or as-extracted collateral, or

(2) the record is or relates to a financing statement filed as a fixture filing and the collateral is goods that are or are to become fixtures.

(Source: P.A. 91-893, eff. 7-1-01.)