CT Gen Stat § 42a-9-525 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 42a - Uniform Commercial Code|Article 9 - Secured Transactions|Section 42a-9-525 - Fees.

 (a) The filing office described in subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of section 42a-9-501 shall charge and collect the following uniform fee: For filing and indexing an initial financing statement, an information statement or an amendment, fifty dollars. No fee shall be charged (1) to the state when the initial financing statement, information statement or amendment is filed by or at the request of the Attorney General or an assistant attorney general or by a duly authorized official of the state or any of its agencies, boards or commissions acting in an official capacity, or (2) to a municipality when the initial financing statement, information statement or amendment is filed by a tax collector or other municipal officer of such municipality pursuant to the provisions of sections 12-195a to 12-195g, inclusive, or (3) for any filing accomplished solely by electronic means and without the physical submission of any document, instrument or paper, in accordance with a plan approved by the Secretary of the State.(b) The uniform fee for responding to a request for information from the filing office described in subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of section 42a-9-501, including issuing a certificate showing whether there is on file, on the date and time stated therein, any financing statement naming a particular debtor and any amendment thereof and, if there is, giving the date and hour of filing such amendment and the name and address of each secured party named therein, is fifty dollars. Upon request, the filing officer shall furnish a photographic or electronic copy of any filed financing statement or amendment for a uniform fee of forty dollars regardless of the number of pages and affix such filing officer's certification and official seal thereto for a fee of fifteen dollars. No fee shall be charged to the state when a certificate showing whether there is on file, on the date and hour stated therein, any presently effective financing statement naming a particular debtor and any amendment thereof, is requested by the Attorney General or an assistant attorney general or by a duly authorized official of the state or any of its agencies, boards or commissions acting in an official capacity, and no fee shall be charged to a municipality when such certificate is requested by the tax collector or other municipal officer of such municipality pursuant to the provisions of sections 12-195a to 12-195g, inclusive.(c) This section does not require a fee with respect to a record of a mortgage which 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 subsection (c) of section 42a-9-502. However, the recording and satisfaction fees that otherwise would be applicable to the record of the mortgage apply.(P.A. 01-132, S. 96; P.A. 03-62, S. 15; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3, S. 385; P.A. 11-108, S. 16.)History: P.A. 03-62 amended Subsec. (a) to replace “Secretary of the State” with “filing office described in subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of section 42a-9-501” and amended Subsec. (b) to specify that the filing office is “described in subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of section 42a-9-501”, replace one reference to “date and hour” with “date and time” and replace “an authorized official” with “a duly authorized official”; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3 amended Subsecs. (a) and (b) to increase fees; P.A. 11-108 amended Subsec. (a) to replace “correction statement” with “information statement”, effective July 1, 2013.