Cal. COM § 9521
This is the official text of Cal. COM § 9521, part of California’s Commercial Code — california's version of the Uniform Commercial Code, governing sales, negotiable instruments, and secured transactions.
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Official statutory text
(a) A filing office that accepts written records may not refuse to accept a written initial financing statement in the following form and format except for a reason set forth in subdivision (b) of Section 9516:
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NOTICE OF INCOMPLETE TEXT: The UCC Financing Statement
form appears in the hard-copy publication of the chaptered bill.
See Sec. 21, Chapter 531 (pp. 30–31), Statutes of 2013.
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(b) A filing office that accepts written records may not refuse to accept a written record in the following form and format except for a reason set forth in subdivision (b) of Section 9516:
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NOTICE OF INCOMPLETE TEXT: The UCC Financing Statement
Amendment form appears in the hard-copy publication of the
chaptered bill. See Sec. 21, Chapter 531 (pp. 33–34), Statutes of 2013.
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NOTICE OF INCOMPLETE TEXT: The UCC Financing Statement
form appears in the hard-copy publication of the chaptered bill.
See Sec. 21, Chapter 531 (pp. 30–31), Statutes of 2013.
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(b) A filing office that accepts written records may not refuse to accept a written record in the following form and format except for a reason set forth in subdivision (b) of Section 9516:
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NOTICE OF INCOMPLETE TEXT: The UCC Financing Statement
Amendment form appears in the hard-copy publication of the
chaptered bill. See Sec. 21, Chapter 531 (pp. 33–34), Statutes of 2013.
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