This legal document governs the acknowledgment of filing written records and other records, communication of requested information, medium for communicating information, timeliness of filing office performance, public availability of records, and remote electronic searches of secretary of state records. It applies to persons that file written records, persons that file records other than written records, any person that requests information from the filing office, municipal clerks authorized by the secretary of state, and members of the public allowed by the secretary of state.

Delay by the filing office beyond a time limit prescribed by this part is excused if: (1) the delay is caused by interruption of communication or computer facilities, war, emergency conditions, failure of equipment, temporary insufficiency of assigned personnel, or other circumstances beyond control of the filing office; and (2) the filing office exercises reasonable diligence under the circumstances. Source. 2001, 102:25, eff. July 1, 2001.

This document governs the fees associated with filing and indexing records under the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) in New Hampshire. The fees vary depending on the type of record, the number of pages, and the medium of communication. The document specifies different fees for initial financing statements and other records. Additionally, there is a fee for responding to information requests from the filing office. Real-property-related financing statements are subject to different fee regulations.

This legal document pertains to the adoption and publication of filing-office rules by the office of the secretary of state. The filing-office rules must be consistent with the Uniform Commercial Code (Chapter 382-A) but are not subject to the provisions of RSA 541-A. The purpose of these rules is to keep the filing-office rules and practices in harmony with other jurisdictions that enact substantially the same part of the Uniform Commercial Code.

This legal document governs the disposition of funds in the state of New Hampshire. It outlines the responsibilities of the state treasurer and the secretary of state in paying for the expenses related to administering, staffing, maintaining, and improving services provided by the secretary of state. The state treasurer is authorized to draw warrants for the authorized sums from the treasury. Additionally, the document instructs the state treasurer to disburse funds to individual city and town clerks in New Hampshire.

Where a record submitted for filing under this part contains the social security number of a debtor who is an individual, such number shall be expunged prior to filing. Where a filed record contains the social security number of such a debtor, the number shall not be included in any record made available or released to the public, including under Section 9-523(c), (f), (g), or (h). This section shall not apply to taxpayer identification numbers of debtors that are not individuals, to records filed pursuant to laws other than this chapter that reference this chapter, this article, or this part, or to records filed in a filing office described in Section 9-501(a)(1).

This legal document pertains to fraudulent filing under the Uniform Commercial Code in New Hampshire. It prohibits any person from intentionally or knowingly presenting or causing to be presented a financing statement for filing under certain circumstances. These circumstances include when the filing has not been authorized and the person does not have a good-faith expectation of proper authorization, when the financing statement contains a material false statement, or when the financing statement is groundless.

This legal document, part of the New Hampshire Revised Statutes under the Uniform Commercial Code, governs the rights and enforcement procedures after default in commercial transactions. It applies to secured parties, debtors, obligors, consignors, and buyers of accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, or promissory notes. After default, a secured party has the right to reduce a claim to judgment, foreclose, or enforce the claim through judicial procedures. If the collateral is documents, the secured party may proceed either as to the documents or as to the goods they cover.

This legal document pertains to the waiver and variance of rights and duties in secured transactions governed by the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC). It specifies that debtors or obligors cannot waive or vary the rules stated in certain listed sections, unless otherwise provided in Section 9-624. These sections include provisions related to the use and operation of collateral by the secured party, requests for accounting and information about collateral, collection and enforcement of collateral, application or payment of noncash proceeds, accounting for surplus proceeds, duty to take possession of collateral without breach of peace, disposition of collateral, calculation of deficiency or surplus, explanation of surplus or deficiency calculation, acceptance of collateral in satisfaction of obligation, redemption of collateral, and secured party’s liability for failure to comply with the UCC.

(a) Agreed standards. The parties may determine by agreement the standards measuring the fulfillment of the rights of a debtor or obligor and the duties of a secured party under a rule stated in Section 9-602 if the standards are not manifestly unreasonable. (b) Agreed standards inapplicable to breach of peace. Subsection (a) does not apply to the duty under Section 9-609 to refrain from breaching the peace. Source. 2001, 102:25, eff.