Delaware Code
Part 5. Filing
§ 9-519. Numbering, maintaining, and indexing records; communicating information provided in records.

(a) Filing office duties. — For each record filed in a filing office, the filing office shall:

(1) assign a unique number to the filed record;
(2) create a record that bears the number assigned to the filed record and the date and time of filing;
(3) maintain the filed record for public inspection; and
(4) index the filed record in accordance with subsections (c), (d), and (e).
(b) File number. — A file number assigned after January 1, 2002 must include a digit that:

(1) is mathematically derived from or related to the other digits of the file number; and
(2) aids the filing office in determining whether a number communicated as the file number includes a single-digit or transpositional error.
(c) Indexing:

(1) index an initial financing statement according to the name of the debtor and index all filed records relating to the initial financing statement in a manner that associates with one another an initial financing statement and all filed records relating to the initial financing statement; and
(2) index a record that provides a name of a debtor which was not previously provided in the financing statement to which the record relates also according to the name that was not previously provided.
(d) Indexing:

(1) under the names of the debtor and of each owner of record shown on the financing statement as if they were the mortgagors under a mortgage of the real property described; and
(2) to the extent that the law of this State provides for indexing of records of mortgages under the name of the mortgagee, under the name of the secured party as if the secured party were the mortgagee thereunder, or, if indexing is by description, as if the financing statement were a record of a mortgage of the real property described.
(e) Indexing:

(1) under the name of the assignor as grantor; and
(2) to the extent that the law of this State provides for indexing a record of the assignment of a mortgage under the name of the assignee, under the name of the assignee.
(f) Retrieval and association capability. — The filing office shall maintain a capability:

(1) to retrieve a record by the name of the debtor and by the file number assigned to the initial financing statement to which the record relates; and
(2) to associate and retrieve with one another an initial financing statement and each filed record relating to the initial financing statement.
(g) Removal of debtor's name. — The filing office may not remove a debtor's name from the index until one year after the effectiveness of a financing statement naming the debtor lapses under Section 9-515 with respect to all secured parties of record.
(h) Timeliness of filing office performance. — The filing office shall perform the acts required by subsections (a) through (e) at the time and in the manner prescribed by filing-office rule.

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Delaware Code

Title 6 - Commerce and Trade

Article 9. Secured Transactions

Part 5. Filing

§ 9-501. Filing office.

§ 9-502. Contents of financing statement; record of mortgage as financing statement; time of filing financing statement.

§ 9-503. Name of debtor and secured party.

§ 9-504. Indication of collateral.

§ 9-504A. Indication of collateral that is accounts, chattel paper, instruments or general intangibles.

§ 9-505. Filing and compliance with other statutes and treaties for consignments, leases, other bailments, and other transactions.

§ 9-506. Effect of errors or omissions.

§ 9-507. Effect of certain events on effectiveness of financing statement.

§ 9-508. Effectiveness of financing statement if new debtor becomes bound by security agreement.

§ 9-509. Persons entitled to file a record.

§ 9-510. Effectiveness of filed record.

§ 9-511. Secured party of record.

§ 9-512. Amendment of financing statement.

§ 9-513. Termination statement.

§ 9-514. Assignment of powers of secured party of record.

§ 9-515. Duration and effectiveness of financing statement; effect of lapsed financing statement.

§ 9-516. What constitutes filing; effectiveness of filing.

§ 9-517. Effect of indexing errors.

§ 9-518. Claim concerning inaccurate or wrongfully filed record.

§ 9-519. Numbering, maintaining, and indexing records; communicating information provided in records.

§ 9-520. Acceptance and refusal to accept record.

§ 9-521. Uniform form of written financing statement and amendment.

§ 9-522. Maintenance and destruction of records.

§ 9-523. Information from filing office; sale or license of records.

§ 9-524. Delay by filing office.

§ 9-525. Fees.

§ 9-526. Filing-office rules.