N.Y. Uniform Commercial Code Law § 9-522: Maintenance and Destruction of Records

Section 9--522. Maintenance and Destruction of Records.

(a) Post-lapse maintenance and retrieval of information. The filing

office shall maintain a record of the information provided in a filed

financing statement for at least one year after the effectiveness of the

financing statement has lapsed under Section 9--515 with respect to all

secured parties of record. The record must be retrievable by using the

name of the debtor and:

(1) if the record was filed in the filing office described in

Section 9--501(a)(1), by using:

(A) the file number assigned to the initial financing

statement to which the record relates and the date and

time that the record was filed; and

(B) in the case of collateral which is a cooperative

interest, the real property tax designation associated

with the real property in which the cooperative unit is

located as assigned by the local real property tax

assessing authority; or

(2) if the record was filed in the filing office described in

Section 9--501(a)(2), by using the file number assigned to

the initial financing statement to which the record relates.

(b) Destruction of written records. Except to the extent that a

statute governing disposition of public records provides otherwise, the

filing office immediately may destroy any written record evidencing a

financing statement. However, if the filing office destroys a written

record, it shall maintain another record of the financing statement

which complies with subsection (a).