{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-4-9-512","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 4-9-512","heading":"Amendment of financing statement.","body":"(a) Subject to § 4-9-509, 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:\n(1) identifies, by its file number, the initial financing statement to which the amendment relates; and\n(2) if the amendment relates to an initial financing statement filed in a filing office described in § 4-9-501(a) (1), provides the date and time that the initial financing statement was filed and the information specified in § 4-9-502(b).\n(b) Except as otherwise provided in § 4-9-515, the filing of an amendment does not extend the period of effectiveness of the financing statement.\n(c) 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.\n(d) 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.\n(e) An amendment is ineffective to the extent it:\n(1) purports to delete all debtors and fails to provide the name of a debtor to be covered by the financing statement; or\n(2) purports to delete all secured parties of record and fails to provide the name of a new secured party of record.","path":["Title 4 Business and Commercial Law","Subtitle 1. Uniform Commercial Code","Chapter 9 Secured Transactions","Part 5 — Filing","Subpart 1 Filing Office — Contents and Effectiveness of Financing Statement"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ar.code/release78.2020.11.06/gov.ar.code.title.04.odt","current_through":"2020-11-06","vintage":"Arkansas Code Release 78 (2020-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T21:07:03Z","sha256":"a8c2dfaebfa1c066f21d029510cb4c388fde1eac4ef2a2ba34ee490d9a3790ff","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-4-9-511","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-4-9-513"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}