New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 19 - DEPARTMENT OF STATE › Chapter III - Administration › Subchapter D - Uniform Commercial Code › Part 143 - Standard Forms And Procedures › Subpart 143-1 - General Provisions › Section 143-1.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) The following
					 terms shall have the respective meanings provided in this section. Terms not
					 defined in this section which are defined in the UCC shall have the respective
					 meanings accorded such terms in the UCC.
(1)
					 Approved form means a form promulgated under section
					 143-1.3(a) of
					 this Subpart, or any other form deemed by the filing office, in its sole
					 discretion, to be substantially similar to a form promulgated under section
					 143-1.3(a) of
					 this Subpart.
(2) Authorized XML
					 remitter means a remitter who has received express authorization from the
					 central filing office to transmit XML documents to the central filing office,
					 and whose authorization has not been revoked or suspended.
(3) Central filing office means the office of
					 the Secretary of State.
(4)
					 Electronic Federal tax lien document means a Federal tax lien document
					 communicated to a filing office in a medium which is other than on paper or in
					 a paper-based format.
(5)
					 Electronic UCC document means a UCC document communicated to a filing office in
					 a medium which is other than on paper or in a paper-based format.
(6) Federal tax lien document means a notice
					 of lien for taxes payable to the United States of America, or a certificate or
					 notice affecting any such lien.
(7)
					 File number means the unique identifying information assigned to an initial
					 financing statement by the filing officer for the purpose of identifying the
					 financing statement and UCC documents relating to the financing statement in
					 the filing officer's information management system. The filing number bears no
					 relation to the time of filing and is not an indicator of priority.
(i) For an initial financing statement filed
					 in the central filing office on or before November 14, 2002, the file number
					 shall consist of:
(a) the date of filing of
					 the initial financing statement; and
(b) the six-digit number assigned to the
					 initial financing statement by the central filing office.
(ii) For an initial financing statement filed
					 in the central filing office on or after November 15, 2002, the file number
					 shall consist of the 15-digit number assigned to the initial financing
					 statement by the central filing office.
(8) Filing office means an office in which
					 UCC documents are filed.
(9)
					 Local-filing office means a filing office referred to in UCC section
					 501(a)(1).
(10) Regular business
					 hours of a filing office means the hours during which the UCC unit of such
					 filing office is regularly open to the public for transaction of business, on
					 those days during which the UCC unit of such filing office is open to the
					 public for the transaction of business, as established from time to time by
					 such filing office.
(11) Remitter
					 means a person who tenders a UCC document to a filing office for filing,
					 whether the person is a filer or an agent of a filer responsible for tendering
					 the document for filing. Remitter does not include a person responsible merely
					 for the delivery of the document to a 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.
(12) UCC means the Uniform Commercial Code as
					 adopted in this State and in effect from time to time.
(13) UCC document means an initial financing
					 statement, an amendment, an assignment, a continuation statement, a termination
					 statement, a correction statement, or a cooperative addendum that relates to a
					 previously filed financing statement.
(14) Written Federal tax lien document means
					 a Federal tax lien document communicated to a filing office on paper or in a
					 paper-based format (including, but not limited to, a Federal tax lien document
					 communicated to a filing office by facsimile delivery).
(15) Written UCC document means a UCC
					 document communicated to a filing office on paper or in a paper-based format
					 (including, but not limited to, a UCC document communicated to a filing office
					 by facsimile delivery).
(16) XML
					 means eXtensible Markup Language.
(17) XML document means a UCC document
					 transmitted to the central filing office by XML techniques authorized under
					 Subpart 143-3 of this Part.