Sec.42a-9-2. General provisions

(a) Forms. The Secretary of the State may prescribe and furnish on request forms required or permitted to be filed by sections 42a-9-101 to 42a-9-xxx, inclusive, of the Connecticut General Statutes, but their use is not mandatory.

(b) Document delivery. UCC documents may be tendered for filing at the filing office as follows:

(1) Personal delivery, at the filing office's street address. The file date and time for a UCC document delivered by this method is when delivery of the UCC document is accepted by the filing office.

(2) United States Postal Service delivery, to the filing office's mailing address. The file date and time for an accepted UCC document delivered by this method is 8:30 a.m. on the date it is received in the filing office. An accepted UCC document delivered after regular business hours or on a date the filing office is not open for business shall have a filing date and time of 8:30 a.m. on the next day the filing office is open for business.

(3) Facsimile delivery, to the filing office's facsimile filing telephone number. The file date and time for an accepted UCC document delivered by this method is the date and time it is received in the filing office. An accepted UCC document delivered after regular business hours or on a date the filing office is not open for business shall have a filing date and time of 8:30 a.m. on the next day the filing office is open for business.

(Adopted effective December 11, 2002)