Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Chapter 95 - Filing
Section 9512 - Amendment of financing statement

§ 9512. Amendment of financing statement.
(a) Amendment of information in financing statement.-- Subject to section 9509 (relating to persons entitled to file a record), a person may add or delete collateral covered by, continue or terminate the effectiveness of or, subject to subsection (e), otherwise amend the information provided in a financing statement by filing an amendment which:
(1) identifies by its file number the initial financing statement to which the amendment relates; and
(2) if the amendment relates to an initial financing statement filed in a filing office described in section 9501(a)(1) (relating to filing offices), provides the information specified in section 9502(b) (relating to real- property-related financing statements).
(b) Period of effectiveness not affected.--Except as otherwise provided in section 9515 (relating to duration and effectiveness of financing statement; effect of lapsed financing statement), the filing of an amendment does not extend the period of effectiveness of the financing statement.
(c) Effectiveness of amendment adding collateral.--A financing statement which is amended by an amendment which adds collateral is effective as to the added collateral only from the date of the filing of the amendment.
(d) Effectiveness of amendment adding debtor.--A financing statement which is amended by an amendment which adds a debtor is effective as to the added debtor only from the date of the filing of the amendment.
(e) Certain amendments ineffective.--An amendment is ineffective to the extent it:
(1) purports to delete all debtors and fails to provide the name of a debtor to be covered by the financing statement; or
(2) purports to delete all secured parties of record and fails to provide the name of a new secured party of record.
Cross References. Section 9512 is referred to in sections 9109, 9516 of this title.

Structure Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes

Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes

Title 13 - COMMERCIAL CODE

Chapter 95 - Filing

Extra - Chapter Notes

Section 9501 - Filing office

Section 9502 - Contents of financing statement; record of mortgage as financing statement; time of filing financing statement

Section 9503 - Name of debtor and secured party

Section 9504 - Indication of collateral

Section 9505 - Filing and compliance with other statutes and treaties for consignments, leases, other bailments and other transactions

Section 9506 - Effect of errors or omissions

Section 9507 - Effect of certain events on effectiveness of financing statement

Section 9508 - Effectiveness of financing statement if new debtor becomes bound by security agreement

Section 9509 - Persons entitled to file a record

Section 9510 - Effectiveness of filed record

Section 9511 - Secured party of record

Section 9512 - Amendment of financing statement

Section 9513 - Termination statement

Section 9514 - Assignment of powers of secured party of record

Section 9515 - Duration and effectiveness of financing statement; effect of lapsed financing statement

Section 9516 - What constitutes filing; effectiveness of filing

Section 9517 - Effect of indexing errors

Section 9518 - Claim concerning inaccurate or wrongfully filed record

Section 9519 - Numbering, maintaining and indexing records; communicating information provided in records

Section 9520 - Acceptance and refusal to accept record

Section 9521 - Uniform form of written financing statement and amendment

Section 9522 - Maintenance and destruction of records

Section 9523 - Information from filing office; sale or license of records

Section 9524 - Delay by filing office

Section 9525 - Fees

Section 9526 - Filing-office rules

Section 9527 - Duty to report