{"data":{"id":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-36-9-522","jurisdiction":"us-sc","citation":"S.C. Code Ann. § 36-9-522","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 year after the effectiveness of the financing statement has lapsed under Section 36-9-515 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 or recorded in the filing office described in Section 36-9-501(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 recorded; or\n(2) if the record was filed in the filing office described in Section 36-9-501(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 36 - COMMERCIAL CODE","CHAPTER 9 Commercial Code—Secured Transactions","Part 5 Filing"],"source_url":"https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t36c009.php","current_through":"2025 Session of the General Assembly","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T07:08:49Z","sha256":"8c0e27f9a9f14fc156aec704cb1727a880e2b5ce6aa57237d03754fc30a150df","source_id":"us-sc","stale":false,"prev":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-36-9-521","next":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-36-9-523"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}