Florida Statute 679.517 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXXIX
COMMERCIAL RELATIONS

Chapter 679
UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE: SECURED TRANSACTIONS

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679.517 Effect of indexing errors.—The failure of the filing office to index a record correctly does not affect the effectiveness of the filed record.

History.—s. 6, ch. 2001-198.

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Regions Bank v. Off. Comm. of Unsecured Creditors (Camtech Precision Mfg., Inc.), 471 B.R. 293 (S.D. Fla. 2012).

Published | District Court, S.D. Florida | 77 U.C.C. Rep. Serv. 2d (West) 200, 2012 WL 1105627, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 44579

...Under this reading of the statute, a correct and properly completed, but misfiled, financing statement would be legally ineffective if a search of the records did not disclose the financing statement, even if the misfiling was not attributable to the filer. This reading of the statute nullifies section 679.517, Florida Statutes, and N.Y.U.C.C....

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Off. Comm. of Unsecured Creditors v. Regions Bank (In Re Camtech Precision Mfg., Inc.), 443 B.R. 190 (Bankr. S.D. Fla. 2011).

Published | United States Bankruptcy Court, S.D. Florida.

...ading as to Camtech and Avstar Fuel. III. Indexing Errors Regions maintains that its UCCs were properly filed, but that both the New York and Florida filing offices mis-indexed the UCCs. Regions argues that pursuant to NY UCC § 9-517 and Fla. Stat. § 679.517, the failure of the filing office to index a record correctly does not affect the effectiveness of the filed record....

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