North Dakota Administrative Code › Title 72 - Secretary of State › Article 72-01 - General Administration › Chapter 72-01-02 - Computerized Central Indexing System › Section 72-01-02-01 - Definitions

Current through Supplement No. 393, July, 2024
1. "Agricultural statutory lien" means agricultural
				  processor's lien, agricultural supplier's lien, or agister's lien.
2. "Amendment" means a UCC document that amends the
				  information contained in a financing statement or central notice system
				  financing statement. Amendments include assignments, continuations, and
				  terminations.
3. "Assignment" is an amendment that assigns all or a part of
				  a secured party's power to authorize an amendment to a financing statement.
4. "Central notice system" means farm product central notice
				  system adopted pursuant to North Dakota Century Code section
				  54-09-09.
5. "Correction statement" means a UCC record filed by the
				  debtor to indicate that a financing statement is inaccurate or wrongfully
				  filed.
6. "Federal liens" means those federal liens described in
				  North Dakota Century Code section
				  35-29-01.
7. "Filing office" means any one of the fifty-three county
				  recorder's offices or the secretary of state's office.
8. "Filing officer" means any one of the fifty-three county
				  recorders or the secretary of state.
9. "Filing officer statement" means a statement entered into
				  the filing office's information system to correct an error by the filing
				  office.
10. "Individual" means a human being, or a decedent in the
				  case of a debtor that is the decedent's estate.
11. "Initial financing statement" means a UCC record
				  containing the information required to be in an initial financing statement and
				  that caused the filing office to establish the initial record of existence of a
				  financing statement.
12. "Lienholder" means any person or entity which has a
				  statutory lien.
13. "Nonstandard form" means any record presented for filing
				  which is not specified as a standard form, whether presented as a separate
				  record or as an attachment to a standard form.
14. "Organization" means a legal person who is not an
				  individual.
15. "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.
16. "Social security number" means social security number as
				  assigned by the social security administration.
17. "Standard form" means a form preapproved for use by the
				  North Dakota secretary of state.
18. "Tax identification number" means the federal tax
				  identification number issued to the entity by the internal revenue service.
19. "UCC" means Uniform Commercial Code as adopted in North
				  Dakota Century Code title 41.
20. "UCC record" means an initial financing statement, an
				  amendment, an assignment, a continuation, a termination, or a correction
				  statement and shall not be deemed to refer exclusively to paper or paper-based
				  writings.
General Authority: NDCC
					 28-32-02,
					 41-09-97,
					 54-09-09
Law
					 Implemented: NDCC
					 41-09-72,
					 41-09-73,
					 41-09-74,
					 41-09-75,
					 41-09-76,
					 41-09-77,
					 41-09-78,
					 41-09-79,
					 41-09-80,
					 41-09-81,
					 41-09-82,
					 41-09-83,
					 41-09-84,
					 41-09-85,
					 41-09-86,
					 41-09-87,
					 41-09-88,
					 41-09-89,
					 41-09-90,
					 41-09-91,
					 41-09-92,
					 41-09-93,
					 41-09-94,
					 41-09-95,
					 41-09-96