{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-4-9-522","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 4-9-522","heading":"Maintenance and destruction of records.","body":"(a) The filing office shall maintain a record of the information provided in a filed financing statement for at least one (1) year after the effectiveness of the financing statement has lapsed under § 4-9-515 with respect to all secured parties of record. The record must be retrievable by using the name of the debtor and:\n(1) if the record was filed in the filing office described in § 4-9-501(a)(1), by using the file number assigned to the initial financing statement to which the record relates and the date and time that the record was filed; or\n(2) if the record was filed in the filing office described in § 4-9-501(a)(2), by using the file number assigned to the initial financing statement to which the record relates.\n(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).","path":["Title 4 Business and Commercial Law","Subtitle 1. Uniform Commercial Code","Chapter 9 Secured Transactions","Part 5 — Filing","Subpart 2 Duties and Operation of Filing Office"],"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":"b32388592a246f78c997a6b1b685c5525ba8c2a44dbb9535a1f28e15eed5d2f9","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-4-9-521","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-4-9-523"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}