{"data":{"id":"us-mt/30-9a-522","jurisdiction":"us-mt","citation":"30-9A-522","heading":"Maintenance and destruction of records.","body":"(1) Subject to the requirements of Title 2, chapter 6, part 11, the filing office shall maintain a record of the information provided in a filed financing statement for at least 1 year after the effectiveness of the filed financing statement has lapsed under 30-9A-515 with respect to all secured parties of record. The record must be retrievable by using the name of the debtor and:\n(a) if the record was filed or recorded in the filing office described in 30-9A-501(1)(a), 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 recorded; or\n(b) if the record was filed or recorded in the filing office described in 30-9A-501(1)(b), by using the date and time file number assigned to the initial financing statement to which the record relates.\n(2) Except to the extent that a statute governing disposition of public records provides otherwise, the filing office may immediately 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 that complies with subsection (1).","path":["TITLE 30. TRADE AND COMMERCE","CHAPTER 9A. UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE SECURED TRANSACTIONS","Part 5. Filing"],"source_url":"https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0300/chapter_009A/part_0050/section_0220/0300-009A-0050-0220.html","current_through":"Montana Code Annotated 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:51:16Z","sha256":"16380700b11ef55e2407393a7fff3ada0c3507c7f07801e3e4f61f42de472356","source_id":"us-mt","stale":false,"prev":"us-mt/30-9a-521","next":"us-mt/30-9a-523"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}