Michigan Administrative Code › Department - State › Office of Customer Services › Uniform Commercial Code Filing Office › Part 5 - SEARCH REQUESTS AND REPORTS › Section R. 440.510 - Search logic

Current through Vol. 24-12, July 15, 2024
Rule 510. Search results are created by applying
					 standardized search logic to the name presented to the filing officer by the
					 person requesting the search. Human judgment does not play a role in
					 determining the results of the search. All of the following provisions are
					 applied to conduct searches:
(1) The
				  number of matches that may be returned in response to the search criteria is
				  not limited.
(b) No distinction is made
				  between upper and lower case letters.
(c) Punctuation marks and accents are
				  disregarded. Only the letters A to Z in upper or lower case, the numbers 0, 1,
				  2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, and the symbol &, in any combination, are
				  considered in conducting the search.
(d) Words and abbreviations at the end of a
				  name that indicate the existence or nature of an organization are disregarded,
				  including, but not limited to, any of the following or abbreviations of the
				  following:
(i) Agency.
(ii) Association.
(iii) Assn.
(iv) Associates.
(v) Assc.
(vi) Assoc.
(vii) Attorney at law.
(viii) Bank.
(ix) National bank.
(x) Business trust.
(xi) Charter.
(xii) Chartered.
(xiii) Company.
(xiv) Co.
(xv) Corporation.
(xvi) Corp.
(xvii) Credit union.
(xviii) CU.
(xix) Federal savings bank.
(xx) FSB.
(xxi) General partnership.
(xxii) Gen part.
(xxiii) GP.
(xxiv) Incorporated.
(xxv) Inc.
(xxvi) Limited.
(xxvii) Ltd.
(xxviii) Ltee.
(xxix) Limited liability company.
(xxx) LC.
(xxxi) LLC.
(xxxii) Limited liability
				  partnership.
(xxxiii)
				  LLP.
(xxxiv) Limited
				  partnership.
(xxxv) LP.
(xxxvi) Medical doctors professional
				  association.
(xxxvii)
				  MDPA.
(xxxviii) Medical doctors
				  professional corporation.
(xxxix)
				  MDPC.
(xL) National
				  association.
(xLi) NA.
(xLii) Partners.
(xLiii) Partnership.
(xLiv) Professional association.
(xLv) Prof assn.
(xLvi) PA.
(xLvii) Professional corporation.
(xLviii) Prof corp.
(xLix) PC.
(L) Professional limited liability
				  company.
(Li) Professional limited
				  liability co.
(Lii) PLLC.
(Liii) Railroad.
(Liv) RR.
(Lv) Real estate investment trust.
(Lvi) REIT.
(Lvii) Registered limited liability
				  partnership.
(Lviii) RLLP.
(Lix) Savings association.
(Lx) SA.
(Lxi) Service corporation.
(Lxii) SC.
(Lxiii) Sole proprietorship.
(Lxiv) SP.
(Lxv) SPA.
(Lxvi) Trust.
(Lxvii) Trustee.
(Lxviii) As trustee.
(e) The word "the" at the beginning of the
				  search criteria is disregarded.
(f)
				  All spaces are disregarded.
(g) For
				  first and middle names of individuals, initials are equated with all names that
				  begin with the initials, and no middle name or initial is equated with all
				  middle names and initials.
(h)
				  After taking the preceding provisions into account to modify the name of the
				  debtor requested to be searched and to modify the names of debtors contained in
				  unlapsed financing statements in the UCC information management system, the
				  search will reveal only names of active debtors that, as modified, exactly
				  match the name requested, as modified.