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Okla. Stat. tit. 12A, § 12A-1-9-522: Maintenance and destruction of records

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  2. Title 12A

MAINTENANCE AND DESTRUCTION OF RECORDS

(a) 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 1-9-515 of this title 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 or recorded in the filing office

described in paragraph (1) of subsection (a) of Section 1-9-501 of

this title, by using the file number of the initial financing

statement to which the record relates and the date and that the

record was filed or recorded, and by the legal description of the

real estate adequate for the purposes of indexing in the tract

indexes of the county where the real estate is situated; or

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

paragraph (2) of subsection (a) of Section 1-9-501 of this title, by

using the file number of the initial financing statement to which

the record relates.

(b) 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) of this section.

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