(a) Post-lapse maintenance and retrieval of information. — The filing office shall maintain a record of the information provided in a filed financing statement for at least one year after the effectiveness of the financing statement has lapsed under Section 9-515 with respect to all secured parties of record. The record must be retrievable by using the name of the debtor and by using the file number assigned to the initial financing statement to which the record relates.
(b) Destruction of written records. — Except to the extent that a statute governing disposition of public records provides otherwise, the filing office immediately may destroy any written record evidencing a financing statement. However, if the filing office destroys a written record, it shall maintain another record of the financing statement which complies with subsection (a).
Structure Delaware Code
Article 9. Secured Transactions
§ 9-503. Name of debtor and secured party.
§ 9-504. Indication of collateral.
§ 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.
§ 9-520. 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.