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Miss. Code Ann. § 75-9-512

Amendment of financing statement

Derived from former 1972 Code § 75-9-402 [Codes, 1942, § 41A:9-402; Laws, 1966, ch. 316, § 9-402; Laws, 1968, ch. 490, § 1; Laws, 1977, ch. 452, § 25, eff from and after April 1…

Subject to Section 75-9-509, 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 that:

(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 for record in a filing office described in Section 75-9-501(a)(1), provides the date that the initial financing statement was filed for record and the information specified in Section 75-9-502(b).

Except as otherwise provided in Section 75-9-515, the filing of an amendment does not extend the period of effectiveness of the financing statement.

A financing statement that is amended by an amendment that adds collateral is effective as to the added collateral only from the date of the filing of the amendment.

A financing statement that is amended by an amendment that adds a debtor is effective as to the added debtor only from the date of the filing of the amendment.

An amendment is ineffective to the extent it:

Purports to delete all debtors and fails to provide the name of a debtor to be covered by the financing statement; or

Purports to delete all secured parties of record and fails to provide the name of a new secured party of record.

Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.