N.Y. UCC Law § 9-502
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Contents of Financing Statement; Record of Mortgage as Financing Statement; Time of Filing Financing Statement; Contents of Cooperative A...
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Section 9--502. Contents of Financing Statement; Record of Mortgage as\n Financing Statement; Time of Filing Financing\n Statement; Contents of Cooperative Addendum.\n (a) Sufficiency of financing statement. Subject to subsection (b), a\nfinancing statement is sufficient only if it:\n (1) provides the name of the debtor;\n (2) provides the name of the secured party or a representative of\n the secured party;\n (3) indicates the collateral covered by the financing statement;\n and\n (4) in the case of a cooperative interest, indicates the number\n or other designation and the street address of the\n cooperative unit.\n (b) Real-property-related financing statements. Except as otherwise\nprovided in Section 9--501(b), to be sufficient, a financing statement\nthat covers as-extracted collateral or timber to be cut, or which is\nfiled as a fixture filing and covers goods that are or are to become\nfixtures, or, unless a cooperative addendum is filed, which covers a\ncooperative interest, must satisfy subsection (a) and also:\n (1) indicate that it covers this type of collateral;\n (2) indicate that it is to be filed in the real property records;\n (3) provide a description of the real property to which the\n collateral is related, including the location of the real\n estate by reference to a book and page number in a deed or\n mortgage index maintained in the county clerk's office in the\n county where the property is situate or by street and number\n and town or city, or, if the real estate is in the city of\n New York, by county, except that if the real estate is in the\n city of New York or counties of Nassau or Onondaga, where the\n block system of recording or registering and indexing\n conveyances is in use, the statement must also specify the\n block and lot number in which the real estate is situated;\n and\n (4) if the debtor does not have an interest of record in the real\n property, provide the name of a record owner.\n (c) Record of mortgage as financing statement. A record of a mortgage\nis effective, from the date of recording, as a financing statement filed\nas a fixture filing or as a financing statement covering as-extracted\ncollateral or timber to be cut only if:\n (1) the record indicates the goods or accounts that it covers;\n (2) the goods are or are to become fixtures related to the real\n property described in the record or the collateral is related\n to the real property described in the record and is\n as-extracted collateral or timber to be cut;\n (3) the record satisfies the requirements for a financing\n statement in this section, but:\n (A) the record need not indicate that it is to be filed in\n the real property records; and\n (B) the record sufficiently provides the name of a debtor who\n is an individual if it provides the individual name of\n the debtor or the surname and first personal name of the\n debtor, even if the debtor is an individual to whom\n Section 9--503(a)(4) applies; and\n (4) the record is duly recorded.\n (d) Filing before security agreement or attachment. A financing\nstatement may be filed before a security agreement is made or a security\ninterest otherwise attaches.\n (e) Contents of cooperative addendum
and first personal name of the\n debtor, even if the debtor is an individual to whom\n Section 9--503(a)(4) applies; and\n (4) the record is duly recorded.\n (d) Filing before security agreement or attachment. A financing\nstatement may be filed before a security agreement is made or a security\ninterest otherwise attaches.\n (e) Contents of cooperative addendum. A cooperative addendum is\nsufficient only if it satisfies subsection (a) and also:\n (1) if not filed simultaneously with the initial financing\n statement, identifies, by its file number, the initial\n financing statement to which the addendum relates;\n (2) indicates the street address of the cooperative unit;\n (3) indicates the county in which the cooperative unit is\n located;\n (4) indicates the city, town, or village in which the cooperative\n unit is located;\n (5) indicates the real property tax designation associated with\n the real property in which the cooperative unit is located as\n assigned by the local real property tax assessing authority;\n and\n (6) indicates the name of the cooperative organization.\n
and first personal name of the\n debtor, even if the debtor is an individual to whom\n Section 9--503(a)(4) applies; and\n (4) the record is duly recorded.\n (d) Filing before security agreement or attachment. A financing\nstatement may be filed before a security agreement is made or a security\ninterest otherwise attaches.\n (e) Contents of cooperative addendum. A cooperative addendum is\nsufficient only if it satisfies subsection (a) and also:\n (1) if not filed simultaneously with the initial financing\n statement, identifies, by its file number, the initial\n financing statement to which the addendum relates;\n (2) indicates the street address of the cooperative unit;\n (3) indicates the county in which the cooperative unit is\n located;\n (4) indicates the city, town, or village in which the cooperative\n unit is located;\n (5) indicates the real property tax designation associated with\n the real property in which the cooperative unit is located as\n assigned by the local real property tax assessing authority;\n and\n (6) indicates the name of the cooperative organization.\n
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