2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 4 - UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE (§§ 4-1-101 — 4-13-306) › Article 9 - SECURED TRANSACTIONS (§§ 4-9-101 — 4-9-809) › Part 5 - FILING (§§ 4-9-501 — 4-9-531) › Section 4-9-523 - Information from filing office - sale or license of records

(a)
If a person that files a written record requests an acknowledgment of the filing, the filing office shall send to the person an image of the record showing the number assigned to the record pursuant to section
4-9-519(a)(1)
, the name of the debtor and the date and time of the filing of the record. However, if the person furnishes a copy of the record to the filing office, the filing office may instead:
(1)
Note upon the copy the number assigned to the record pursuant to section
4-9-519(a)(1)
and the date and time of the filing of the record; and
(2)
Send the copy to the person.
(b)
If a person files a record other than a written record, the filing office shall communicate to the person an acknowledgment that provides:
(1)
The information in the record;
(2)
The number assigned to the record pursuant to section
4-9-519(a)(1)
; and
(3)
The date and time of the filing of the record.
(c)
The filing office shall communicate or otherwise make available in a record the following information to any person that requests it:
(1)
Whether there is on file on a date and time specified by the filing office, but not a date earlier than three business days before the filing office receives the request, any financing statement that:
(A)
Designates a particular debtor;
(B)
Has not lapsed under section
4-9-515
with respect to all secured parties of record; and
(C)
If the request so states, has lapsed under section
4-9-515
and a record of which is maintained by the filing office under section
4-9-522(a)
;
(2)
The date and time of filing of each financing statement; and
(3)
The information provided in each financing statement.
(d)
In complying with its duty under subsection (c) of this section, the filing office may communicate information in any medium. However, if requested, the filing office shall communicate information by issuing a record that can be admitted into evidence in the courts of this state without extrinsic evidence of its authenticity.
(e)
The filing office shall perform the acts required by subsections (a) to (d) of this section at the time and in the manner prescribed by filing-office rule, but not later than five business days after the filing office receives the request.
(f)
At least weekly, the filing office shall offer to sell or license to the public on a nonexclusive basis, in bulk, copies of all records filed in it under this part 5, in such digital or electronic medium as is from time to time available to the filing office.
L. 2001: Entire article R&RE, p. 1392, § 1, effective July 1. L. 2008: (c) amended, p. 266, § 2, effective August 5. L. 2009: (d) amended, (SB 09-084), ch. 141, p. 603, §4, effective August 5.
(1) This section is similar to former § 4-9-407 as it existed prior to 2001.
(2)
Colorado legislative change:
Colorado added the phrase "the name of the debtor and" in subsection (a), added a reference to "federal tax lien notice" in subsections (c)(1), (c)(2), and (c)(3), changed "two" to "five" in subsection (e), and substituted the phrase "such digital or electronic medium as is" for the phrase "every medium" in subsection (f).