Missouri Code of State Regulations › Title 15 - ELECTED OFFICIALS › Division 30 - Secretary of State › Chapter 90 - Uniform Commercial Code › Section 15 CSR 30-90.010 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 14, July 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This rule gives meaning to terminology used
				  throughout this chapter.
(1)
				As used in this chapter, the following terms mean:
(A) "ACH account" is a method of payment via
				electronic funds transfer under the National Automated Clearing House
				Association rules;
(B) "Address"
				means either a street address, route # (may include box) or PO Box number, plus
				the city, state and zip code;
(C)
				"Amendment" means a Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) record that amends the
				information contained in a financing statement. Amendments include assignments,
				continuations and terminations;
(D)
				"Assignment" is an amendment that assigns all or a part of a secured party's
				power to authorize an amendment to a financing statement;
(E) "Certified search" is certified
				documentation of information maintained by the filing office;
(F) "Continuation statement" shall have the
				meaning prescribed by section
				400.9-102,
				RSMo;
(G) "Fees" include all fees
				required by statute, including fees for the Technology Trust Fund;
(H) "File number" shall have the meaning
				prescribed by section
				400.9-519,
				RSMo;
(I) "Filing office" means the
				appropriate place for filing UCC documents at the Office of the Secretary of
				State or county recorder of deeds;
(J) "Filing officer" means the secretary of
				state or the county recorders of deeds;
(K) "Filing officer statement" means a
				statement of correction entered into the filing office's information system to
				correct an error by the filing office;
(L) "Financing statement" shall have the
				meaning prescribed by section
				400.9-102,
				RSMo;
(M) "Image" means the image
				of a document as stored in the UCC information management system;
(N) "Individual" means a human being, or a
				decedent who was a debtor;
(O)
				"Information statement" means a UCC record that indicates that a financing
				statement is inaccurate or wrongfully filed;
(P) "Initial financing statement" means a UCC
				record containing the information required by section
				400.9-502,
				RSMo, which, when filed, causes the filing office to establish the initial
				record in the filing office's UCC information management system;
(Q) "Organization" means a legal person who
				is not an individual;
(R)
				"Organizational number" means the identifying number issued to an entity upon
				registration in the entity's state of formation;
(S) "Remitter" means a person who tenders a
				UCC record to the filing officer for filing, whether the person is a filer or
				an agent of a filer responsible for tendering the record for filing. "Remitter"
				does not include a person responsible merely for the delivery of the record to
				the filing office, such as the postal service or a courier service but does
				include a service provider who acts as a filer's representative in the filing
				process;
(T) "Secured party of
				record" shall have the meaning prescribed in section
				400.9-511,
				RSMo;
(U) "Termination statement"
				shall have the meaning prescribed in section
				400.9-102,
				RSMo;
(V) "UCC" means the Uniform
				Commercial Code as adopted in this state;
(W) "UCC record" means an initial financing
				statement, an amendment, an assignment, a continuation, a termination or an
				information statement and shall not be deemed to refer exclusively to paper or
				paper-based writing; and
(X) "UCC
				website" means the series of related Internet web pages provided for online
				filing and search functions in this state.