409.402 Annotation Changes in various provisions of the official text make it unnecessary in certain instances to have both the signature of the debtor and the secured party on the financing statement or a copy of the security agreement. The Special Committee is of the opinion that it is not the responsibility of a filing officer to determine whether or not one or 2 signatures are necessary or if only one, which one.
409.402 Annotation For an explanation of the change in sub. (3) 2., see NOTE to s. 409.402 (1) (b). The Special Committee also deleted the following language at the end of sub. (3) 3: "(If the debtor does not have an interest of record) The name of the record owner is ....". This change was made to conform to the change in s. 409.313 (4) (a) and (b). See the note to those paragraphs. A similar deletion is made in s. 409.402 (5). For the purposes of clarification, except in s. 409.402 (1) (b), the Special Committee decided that where a description of real estate is required, what is meant is a "legal" description. This clarification has been made throughout the bill.
409.402 Annotation The Special Committee added the language concerning amendments which change only the name or address of the parties. The Special Committee is of the opinion that only the secured party could be affected adversely by a name or address change and that the requirement of signatures of both parties is unnecessary.
409.402 Annotation Language was deleted in new sub. (5). See note to s. 409.402 (3) 3. With respect to the requirement in s. 409.402 (5) that certain financing statements must specify that they are to be filed in the real estate records, the Special Committee rejected additional language which would have provided that, "failure to indicate on the financing statement that proper filing is in the real estate records does not invalidate a financing statement that otherwise complies with the law." The Special Committee was of the opinion that such a notation on a financing statement serves only as an instruction to the filing officer and that the failure to include this instruction would be only a minor error which is not seriously misleading as long as the financing statement is, in fact, properly filed. In reaching this conclusion, the Special Committee took cognizance of s. 409.402 (8) [present sub. (5)] which provides that minor errors, which are not seriously misleading, do not jeopardize the effectiveness of financing statements. (Bill 177-S)
409.402 Annotation Creditor's filing statement became "seriously misleading" under (7) after debtors' name change and so was insufficient to perfect security interest in property acquired more than 4 months after name change. First Agri Services, Inc. v. Kahl, 129 W (2d) 464, 385 NW (2d) 191 (Ct. App. 1986).
409.402 Annotation Address as a formal requisite of the financing statement. Neimann, 55 MLR 387.
409.403 409.403 What constitutes filing; duration of filing; effect of lapsed filing; duties of filing officer.
409.403(1) (1) Presentation for filing of a financing statement and tender of the filing fee constitutes filing under this chapter unless the filing officer refuses to accept the statement under s. 409.402 (3m). Presentation for filing of a financing statement and acceptance of the statement by the filing officer constitutes filing under this chapter.
409.403(2) (2) Except as provided in sub. (6) a filed financing statement is effective for a period of 5 years from the date of filing. The effectiveness of a filed financing statement lapses on the expiration of the 5-year period unless a continuation statement is filed prior to the lapse. If a security interest perfected by filing exists at the time insolvency proceedings are commenced by or against the debtor, the security interest remains perfected until termination of the insolvency proceedings and thereafter for a period of 60 days or until expiration of the 5-year period, whichever occurs later. Upon lapse the security interest becomes unperfected, unless it is perfected without filing. If the security interest becomes unperfected upon lapse, it is deemed to have been unperfected as against a person who became a purchaser or lien creditor before lapse.
409.403(3) (3) A continuation statement may be filed by the secured party within 6 months prior to the expiration of the 5-year period specified in sub. (2). Any such continuation statement must be signed by the secured party, identify the original statement by file number and state that the original statement is still effective. A continuation statement signed by a person other than the secured party of record must be accompanied by a separate written statement of assignment signed by the secured party of record and complying with s. 409.405 (2), including payment of the required fee. Upon timely filing of the continuation statement, the effectiveness of the original statement is continued for 5 years after the last date to which the filing was effective whereupon it lapses in the same manner as provided in sub. (2) unless another continuation statement is filed prior to such lapse. Succeeding continuation statements may be filed in the same manner to continue the effectiveness of the original statement. Unless a statute on disposition of public records provides otherwise, the filing officer may remove a lapsed statement from the files and destroy it immediately if the officer has retained a microfilm or other photographic record or an optical disk or electronic copy. In other cases a lapsed statement may not be destroyed until after one year after the lapse. The filing officer shall so arrange matters by physical annexation of financing statements to continuation statements or other related filings, or by other means, that if the officer physically destroys the financing statements of a period more than 5 years past, those which have been continued by a continuation statement or which are still effective under sub. (6) shall be retained.
409.403(4) (4) Except as provided in sub. (7), a filing officer shall mark each statement with a file number and with the date and hour of filing and shall hold the statement or a microfilm or other photographic copy thereof, or an optical disk or electronic copy thereof, for public inspection. In addition the filing officer shall index the statements according to the name of the debtor and shall note in the index the file number and the address of the debtor given in the statement.
409.403(5) (5)
409.403(5)(a)(a) Fees for filing with the office of the register of deeds.
409.403(5)(a)1.1. The fee for filing and indexing and for stamping a copy furnished by the secured party to show the date and place of filing for an original financing statement is $8 if the statement is on the standard form prescribed by the department and is $16 if the statement is not on the standard form or if additional pages are attached to the standard form. The fee for filing an original financing statement subject to s. 409.402 (5) is $10 if the statement is on the standard form and is $20 if the statement is not on the standard form or if additional pages are attached to the standard form.
409.403(5)(a)1m. 1m. There is no fee for processing the termination statement.
409.403(5)(a)2. 2. The fee for filing and indexing and for stamping a copy furnished by the secured party to show the date and place of filing for an amendment or a continuation statement is $5 if the amendment or statement is on the standard form prescribed by the department and is $10 if the amendment or statement is not on the standard form or if additional pages are attached to the standard form.
409.403(5)(a)3. 3. A register of deeds shall forward $3 to the department for each original financing statement filed with the office of the register of deeds under subd. 1. and for each amendment and each continuation statement filed with the office of the register of deeds under subd. 2.
409.403(5)(b) (b) Fees for filing with the department of financial institutions.
409.403(5)(b)1.1. The fee for filing and indexing and for stamping a copy furnished by the secured party to show the date and place of filing for an original financing statement is $8 if the statement is on the standard form prescribed by the department and is $16 if the statement is not on the standard form or if additional pages are attached to the standard form.
409.403(5)(b)1m. 1m. There is no fee for processing the termination statement.
409.403(5)(b)2. 2. The fee for filing and indexing and for stamping a copy furnished by the secured party to show the date and place of filing for an amendment or a continuation statement is $5 if the amendment or statement is on the standard form prescribed by the department and is $10 if the amendment or statement is not on the standard form or if additional pages are attached to the standard form.
409.403(6) (6) If the debtor is a transmitting utility (s. 409.401 (5)) and a filed financing statement so states, it is effective until a termination statement is filed. A real estate mortgage which is effective as a fixture filing under s. 409.402 (6) remains effective as a fixture filing until the mortgage is released or satisfied of record or its effectiveness otherwise terminates as to the real estate.
409.403(7) (7) When a financing statement covers timber to be cut or covers minerals or the like (including oil and gas) or accounts subject to s. 409.103 (5), or is filed as a fixture filing, the filing officer shall index it under the names of the debtor in the same fashion as if they were the mortgagors in a mortgage of the real estate described, and, to the extent that the law of this state provides for indexing 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 where indexing is by description in the same fashion as if the financing statement were a mortgage of the real estate described.
409.403(8) (8) A separate amendment, continuation statement, termination statement, statement of assignment or statement of release shall be filed for each original financing statement to be affected.
409.403 Annotation Legislative Council Note, 1973: In sub. (7), the Special Committee deleted the words "and any owner of record shown on the financing statement" which appear after the word "debtor" in the official text. This change is in conformity with changes made in ss. 409.402 (3) 3. and 409.402 (5). See the note to s. 409.402 (3) 3. (Bill 177-S)
409.403 Annotation When creditor fails to file continuation statement under (2), perfection lapses and creditor may assume status of unperfected secured creditor as against prelapse purchaser. Hanley Implement v. Riesterer Equip. 150 W (2d) 161, 441 NW (2d) 304 (Ct. App. 1989).
409.403 Annotation See note to 409.401, citing 63 Atty. Gen. 439.
409.403 Annotation Filing of 2nd financing statement which did not refer to original filing does not bring creditor into substantial compliance with (3). Bostwick-Braun Co. v. Owens, 634 F Supp. 839 (1986).
409.404 409.404 Termination statement.
409.404(1) (1)
409.404(1)(a)(a) Requirement for filing termination statement with the office of the register of deeds. If a financing statement covering consumer goods is filed on or after July 1, 1974, then within one month or within 10 days following written demand by the debtor after there is no outstanding secured obligation and no commitment to make advances, incur obligations or otherwise give value, the secured party must file with each filing officer with whom the financing statement was filed, a termination statement to the effect that the secured party no longer claims a security interest under the financing statement, which shall be identified by file number. In other cases whenever there is no outstanding secured obligation and no commitment to make advances, incur obligations or otherwise give value, the secured party must on written demand by the debtor send the debtor, for each filing officer with whom the financing statement was filed, a termination statement to the effect that the secured party no longer claims a security interest under the financing statement, which shall be identified by file number. A termination statement signed by a person other than the secured party of record must be accompanied by a separate written statement of assignment signed by the secured party of record complying with s. 409.405 (2), including payment of the required fee.
409.404(1)(b) (b) Requirement for filing termination statement with the department of financial institutions. Except as provided in par. (c), if a financing statement is filed with the department, then within one month or within 10 days following written demand by the debtor after there is no outstanding secured obligation and no commitment to make advances, incur obligations or otherwise give value, the secured party must file with the department a termination statement to the effect that the secured party no longer claims a security interest under the financing statement, which shall be identified by file number. A termination statement signed by a person other than the secured party of record must be accompanied by a separate written statement of assignment signed by the secured party of record complying with s. 409.405 (2), including payment of the required fee.
409.404(1)(c) (c) Exceptions to requirement for filing termination statement with the department of financial institutions. No termination statement needs to be filed with the department pursuant to par. (b) if:
409.404(1)(c)1. 1. The effectiveness of the financing statement or continuation statement has lapsed prior to the time when a termination statement is required to be filed under par. (b).
409.404(1)(c)2. 2. The financing statement states that a continuing business relationship exists between the debtor and the secured party.
409.404(1)(c)3. 3. The financing statement was filed prior to January 1, 1978.
409.404(1)(d) (d) Failure to file a termination statement. If the affected secured party fails to file a termination statement as required by this subsection, or to send such a termination statement within 10 days after receipt of the debtor's written demand the secured party is liable to the debtor for $25, and in addition for any loss caused to the debtor by such failure.
409.404(2) (2) On presentation to the filing officer of a termination statement the officer must note it in the index. If the officer has received the termination statement in duplicate, the officer shall return one copy of the termination statement to the secured party stamped to show the time of receipt. If the filing officer has a microfilm, other photographic record or optical disk or electronic copy of the financing statement, and of any related continuation statement, statement of assignment and statement of release, the officer may remove the originals from the files at any time after receipt of the termination statement, or if the officer has no such record, the officer may remove them from the files at any time after one year after receipt of the termination statement.
409.404(3) (3)
409.404(3)(a)(a) Fees for filing a termination statement with the office of the register of deeds. There is no fee for a termination statement that is filed with the office of the register of deeds and there is no fee for indexing any name in connection with the termination process.
409.404(3)(b) (b) Fees for filing a termination statement with the department of financial institutions. There is no fee for a termination statement which is filed with the department and there is no fee for indexing any name in connection with the termination process.
409.404 Annotation Legislative Council Note, 1973: Sub. (1) presently provides that a termination statement must be filed in all cases. This is not a part of the official text. The Special Committee decided to delete the mandatory requirement, except in the case of termination statements relating to security interests in consumer goods. It should be noted that the Wisconsin Consumer Act, ch. 239, laws of 1971, has additional requirements with respect to consumer credit transactions. (Bill 177-S)
409.405 409.405 Assignment of security interest; duties of filing officer; fees.
409.405(1)(1) An original financing statement may disclose an assignment of a security interest in the collateral described in the financing statement by indication in the financing statement of the name and address of the assignee or by an assignment itself or a copy thereof on the face or back of the statement. On presentation to the filing officer of such a financing statement the filing officer shall mark the same as provided in s. 409.403 (4). The fee for filing, indexing and stamping a copy furnished by the secured party to show the date and place of filing for an original financing statement so indicating an assignment is $8 if the statement is on the standard form prescribed by the department and is $16 if the statement is not on the standard form or if additional pages are attached to the standard form. The fee for filing an original financing statement indicating an assignment and subject to s. 409.402 (5) is $10 if the statement is on the standard form and is $20 if the statement is not on the standard form or if additional pages are attached to the standard form. A register of deeds shall forward $3 to the department for each original financing statement indicating an assignment of a security interest that is filed with the office of the register of deeds.
409.405(1m) (1m) There is no fee for processing the termination statement.
409.405(2) (2) A secured party may assign of record all or part of his or her rights under a financing statement by the filing in the place where the original financing statement was filed of a separate written statement of assignment signed by the secured party of record and setting forth the name of the secured party of record and the debtor, the file number and the date of filing of the financing statement and the name and address of the assignee and containing a description of the collateral assigned. A copy of the assignment is sufficient as a separate statement if it complies with the preceding sentence. On presentation to the filing officer of such a separate statement, the filing officer shall mark such separate statement with the date and hour of the filing. The officer shall note the assignment on the index of the financing statement, or in the case of a fixture filing, or a filing covering timber to be cut, or covering minerals or the like, including oil and gas, or accounts subject to s. 409.103 (5), the officer shall index the assignment under the name of the assignor as grantor and, to the extent that the law of this state provides for indexing the assignment of a mortgage under the name of the assignee, the officer shall index the assignment of the financing statement under the name of the assignee. The fee for filing, indexing and furnishing filing data about such a separate statement of assignment is $5 if the statement is on the standard form prescribed by the department and is $10 if the statement is not on the standard form or if additional pages are attached to the standard form. A register of deeds shall forward $3 to the department for each statement of assignment filed with the office of the register of deeds. Notwithstanding this subsection, an assignment of record of a security interest in a fixture contained in a mortgage effective as a fixture filing under s. 409.402 (6) may be made only by an assignment of the mortgage in the manner provided by the law of this state other than chs. 401 to 411.
409.405(3) (3) After the disclosure or filing of an assignment under this section, the assignee is the secured party of record.
409.406 409.406 Release of collateral; duties of filing officer; fees. A secured party of record may by his or her signed statement release all or a part of any collateral described in a filed financing statement. The statement of release is sufficient if it contains a description of the collateral being released, the name and address of the debtor, the name and address of the secured party, and the file number of the financing statement. A statement of release signed by a person other than the secured party of record must be accompanied by a separate written statement of assignment signed by the secured party of record and complying with s. 409.405 (2), including payment of the required fee. Upon presentation of such a statement of release to the filing officer, the officer shall mark the statement with the hour and date of filing and shall note the same upon the margin of the index of the filing of the financing statement. The fee for filing and noting such a statement of release is $5 if the statement is on the standard form prescribed by the department and is $10 if the statement is not on the standard form or if additional pages are attached to the standard form. A register of deeds shall forward $3 to the department for each statement of release filed with the office of the register of deeds.
409.407 409.407 Duties and liability of filing officer.
409.407(1) (1)Information from filing officer. If the person filing any financing statement, termination statement, statement of assignment, or statement of release, furnishes the filing officer a copy thereof, the filing officer shall upon request note upon the copy the file number and date and hour of the filing of the original and deliver or send the copy to such person.
409.407(2) (2)Oral request for information from filing officer; issuance of certificate; fees.
409.407(2)(a)(a) Upon the oral request of any person, the filing officer shall disclose orally at the time of the request or as soon thereafter as possible any presently effective statement naming a particular debtor and if there is such a statement, giving the date and hour of filing of each such statement and the names and addresses of each secured party therein. The fee for the information is $10. Upon the request for a copy of a statement, the filing officer shall furnish copies for a fee of $1 per page.
409.407(2)(b) (b) Upon request of any person, the filing officer shall issue a certificate showing whether there is on file on the date and hour stated therein, any presently effective statement naming a particular debtor and if there is, giving the date and hour of filing of each such statement and the names and addresses of each secured party therein. The fee for such a certificate is $10. Upon request the filing officer shall furnish a certificate and copies of any filed statement for a fee of $1 for each page of the copied statement.
409.407(2)(c) (c) For providing any service under par. (a) or (b) in an expeditious manner, the department may charge and collect an expedited service fee of $25 in addition to any fee required under par. (a) or (b). Only one expedited service fee may be charged for multiple identical certificates if the certificates are requested at the same time and issued at the same time.
409.407(3) (3)Liability of filing officer. No filing officer nor any of the filing officer's employes or agents shall be subject to personal liability by reason of any error or omission in the performance of any duty under ch. 409 except in case of misconduct as defined in s. 946.12.
409.408 409.408 Financing statements covering consigned or leased goods. A consignor or lessor of goods may file a financing statement using the terms "consignor", "consignee", "lessor", "lessee" or the like instead of the terms specified in s. 409.402. Sections 409.401 to 409.409 apply as appropriate to such a financing statement but its filing shall not of itself be a factor in determining whether or not the consignment or lease is intended as security (s. 401.201 (37)). However, if it is determined for other reasons that the consignment or lease is so intended, a security interest of the consignor or lessor which attaches to the consigned or leased goods is perfected by such filing.
409.408 History History: 1973 c. 215.
409.409 409.409 Storage of records. Whenever in this chapter a filing officer is required to mark, index or file any financing statement, termination statement, continuation statement, statement of assignment or statement of release, the officer may destroy the original statement after a microfilm or other photographic copy or an optical disk or electronic copy has been prepared and filed for retention.
409.409 History History: 1973 c. 215; 1991 a. 39; 1995 a. 27.
409.410 409.410 Statewide lien system.
409.410(1) (1) The department and the office of each register of deeds in this state shall establish and maintain at least one computer terminal allowing the direct entry into permanent computer storage and the direct retrieval from permanent computer storage of information under sub. (2).
409.410(2) (2) Beginning 30 days after notification by the department, each filing officer shall enter all information contained in all financing statements, amendments, termination statements, continuation statements, statements of assignment and statements of release submitted for filing, indexing or marking under ss. 409.401 to 409.408, including the date and time of filing these statements or amendments, into permanent computer storage by means of a computer terminal established and maintained under sub. (1).
409.410 History History: 1985 a. 29; 1995 a. 27.
409.411 409.411 Uniform commercial code statewide lien system council.
409.411(1)(1) The uniform commercial code statewide lien system council shall advise the department of financial institutions on the uniform commercial code statewide lien system under s. 409.410.
409.411(2) (2) The department shall establish and maintain, in consultation with the uniform commercial code statewide lien system council, computer and any other services necessary to support the uniform commercial code statewide lien system under s. 409.410 but may not maintain a central filing system, as defined in 7 USC 1631 (c) (2), for farm products, as defined in 7 USC 1631 (c) (5).
409.411 History History: 1995 a. 216 ss. 6, 59, 68.
DEFAULT
409.501 409.501 Default; procedure when security agreement covers both real and personal property.
409.501(1) (1) When a debtor is in default under a security agreement, a secured party has the rights and remedies provided in ss. 409.501 to 409.507 and except as limited by sub. (3) those provided in the security agreement. The secured party may reduce the claim to judgment, foreclose or otherwise enforce the security interest by any available judicial procedure. If the collateral is documents the secured party may proceed either as to the documents or as to the goods covered thereby. A secured party in possession has the rights, remedies and duties provided in s. 409.207. The rights and remedies referred to in this subsection are cumulative.
409.501(2) (2) After default, the debtor has the rights and remedies provided in ss. 409.501 to 409.507, those provided in the security agreement and those provided in s. 409.207.
409.501(3) (3) To the extent that they give rights to the debtor and impose duties on the secured party, the rules stated in the sections and subsections referred to in pars. (a) to (e) may not be waived or varied except as provided with respect to compulsory disposition of collateral (ss. 409.504 (3) and 409.505 (1)) and with respect to redemption of collateral (s. 409.506) but the parties may by agreement determine the standards by which the fulfillment of these rights and duties is to be measured if such standards are not manifestly unreasonable:
409.501(3)(a) (a) Sections 409.502 (2) and 409.504 (2) insofar as they require accounting for surplus proceeds of collateral;
409.501(3)(b) (b) Sections 409.504 (3) and 409.505 (1) which deal with disposition of collateral;
409.501(3)(c) (c) Section 409.505 (2) which deals with acceptance of collateral as discharge of obligation;
409.501(3)(d) (d) Section 409.506 which deals with redemption of collateral; and
409.501(3)(e) (e) Section 409.507 (1) which deals with the secured party's liability for failure to comply with ss. 409.501 to 409.507.
409.501(4) (4) If the security agreement covers both real and personal property, the secured party may proceed under ss. 409.501 to 409.507 as to the personal property or the secured party may proceed as to both the real and the personal property in accordance with the secured party's rights and remedies in respect of the real property in which case the provisions of ss. 409.501 to 409.507 do not apply.
409.501(5) (5) When a secured party has reduced a claim to judgment the lien of any levy which may be made upon the secured party's collateral by virtue of any execution based upon the judgment shall relate back to the date of the perfection of the security interest in such collateral. A judicial sale, pursuant to such execution, is a foreclosure of the security interest by judicial procedure within the meaning of this section, and the secured party may purchase at the sale and thereafter hold the collateral free of any other requirements of this chapter.
409.501 History History: 1973 c. 215; 1981 c. 390; 1991 a. 316.
409.501 Annotation A secured creditor can retain a debtor's collateral while seeking an independent action for a money judgment. Dorman v. Morris, 185 W (2d) 845, 519 NW (2d) 685 (Ct. App. 1994).
409.502 409.502 Collection rights of secured party.
409.502(1) (1) When so agreed and in any event on default the secured party is entitled to notify an account debtor or the obligor on an instrument to make payment to the secured party whether or not the assignor was theretofore making collections on the collateral, and also to take control of any proceeds to which the secured party is entitled under s. 409.306.
409.502(2) (2) A secured party who by agreement is entitled to charge back uncollected collateral or otherwise to full or limited recourse against the debtor and who undertakes to collect from the account debtors or obligors must proceed in a commercially reasonable manner and may deduct his or her reasonable expenses of realization from the collections. If the security agreement secures an indebtedness, the secured party must account to the debtor for any surplus, and unless otherwise agreed, the debtor is liable for any deficiency. But, if the underlying transaction was a sale of accounts or chattel paper, the debtor is entitled to any surplus or is liable for any deficiency only if the security agreement so provides.
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