2016 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 42a - Uniform Commercial Code
Article 9 - Secured Transactions
Section 42a-9-503 - Name of debtor and secured party.

(a) A financing statement sufficiently provides the name of the debtor:

(1) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (3) of this subsection, if the debtor is a registered organization or the collateral is held in a trust that is a registered organization, only if the financing statement provides the name that is stated to be the registered organization's name on the public organic record most recently filed with or issued or enacted by the registered organization's jurisdiction of organization which purports to state, amend or restate the registered organization's name;

(2) Subject to subsection (f) of this section, if the collateral is being administered by a personal representative of a decedent, only if the financing statement provides, as the name of the debtor, the name of the decedent and, in a separate part of the financing statement, indicates that the collateral is being administered by a personal representative;

(3) If the collateral is held in a trust that is not a registered organization, only if the financing statement:

(A) Provides, as the name of the debtor:

(i) If the organic record of the trust specifies a name for the trust, the name specified; or

(ii) If the organic record of the trust does not specify a name for the trust, the name of the settlor or testator; and

(B) In a separate part of the financing statement:

(i) If the name is provided in accordance with subparagraph (A)(i) of this subdivision, indicates that the collateral is held in a trust; or

(ii) If the name is provided in accordance with subparagraph (A)(ii) of this subdivision, provides additional information sufficient to distinguish the trust from other trusts having one or more of the same settlors or the same testator and indicates that the collateral is held in a trust, unless the additional information so indicates;

(4) If the debtor is an individual, only if the financing statement:

(A) Provides the individual name of the debtor;

(B) Provides the surname and first personal name of the debtor; or

(C) Subject to subsection (g) of this section, provides the name of the individual which is indicated on a motor vehicle operator's license or identity card that this state has issued to the individual in accordance with subpart (B) of part III of chapter 246 or section 1-1h, respectively, and which has not expired; and

(5) In other cases:

(A) If the debtor has a name, only if the financing statement provides the organizational name of the debtor; and

(B) If the debtor does not have a name, only if the financing statement provides the names of the partners, members, associates or other persons comprising the debtor, in a manner that each name provided would be sufficient if the person named were the debtor.

(b) A financing statement that provides the name of the debtor in accordance with subsection (a) of this section is not rendered ineffective by the absence of:

(1) A trade name or other name of the debtor; or

(2) Unless required under subparagraph (B) of subdivision (5) of subsection (a) of this section, names of partners, members, associates or other persons comprising the debtor.

(c) A financing statement that provides only the debtor's trade name does not sufficiently provide the name of the debtor.

(d) Failure to indicate the representative capacity of a secured party or representative of a secured party does not affect the sufficiency of a financing statement.

(e) A financing statement may provide the name of more than one debtor and the name of more than one secured party.

(f) The name of the decedent indicated on an order appointing a personal representative of the decedent issued by a court having jurisdiction over the collateral is sufficient as the “name of the decedent” under subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of this section.

(g) If this state has issued to an individual more than one motor vehicle operator's license or identity card of a kind described in subparagraph (C) of subdivision (4) of subsection (a) of this section, the one that was issued most recently is the one to which subparagraph (C) of subdivision (4) of subsection (a) of this section refers.

(h) In this section, the “name of the settlor or testator” means:

(1) If the settlor is a registered organization, the name that is stated to be the settlor's name on the public organic record most recently filed with or issued or enacted by the settlor's jurisdiction of organization which purports to state, amend or restate the settlor's name; or

(2) In other cases, the name of the settlor or testator indicated in the trust's organic record.

(1959, P.A. 133, S. 9-503; P.A. 01-132, S. 74; P.A. 11-108, S. 10.)

History: P.A. 01-132 replaced former provisions re the secured party's right to take possession after default with provisions re the name of the debtor and the secured party in a financing statement; P.A. 11-108 amended Subsec. (a) by revising Subdiv. (1) to add exception re Subdiv. (3), include circumstance if “the collateral is held in a trust that is a registered organization” and replace requirement that financing statement provide “the name of the debtor indicated on the public record of the debtor's jurisdiction of organization which shows the debtor to have been organized” with “the name that is stated to be the registered organization's name on the public organic record most recently filed with or issued or enacted by the registered organization's jurisdiction of organization which purports to state, amend or restate the registered organization's name”, by revising Subdiv. (2) to replace “If the debtor is a decedent's estate” with “Subject to subsection (f) of this section, if the collateral is being administered by a personal representative of a decedent” and provide that “a separate part of” the financing statement indicate that “the collateral is being administered by a personal representative”, rather than the financing statement indicate that “the debtor is an estate”, by revising Subdiv. (3) to make applicable “If the collateral is held in a trust that is not a registered organization”, rather than “If the debtor is a trust or a trustee acting with respect to property held in trust”, and replace former provisions with provisions re required contents of financing statement, by adding new Subdiv. (4) re contents of financing statement if debtor is an individual and by redesignating existing Subdiv. (4) as Subdiv. (5) and amending same to delete in Subpara. (A) reference to the “individual” name of debtor and add in Subpara. (B) “in a manner that each name provided would be sufficient if the person named were the debtor”, added Subsec. (f) re sufficiency of name of decedent indicated on order appointing personal representative of decedent, added Subsec. (g) re when more than one operator's license or identity card has been issued, added Subsec. (h) re definition of “name of the settlor or testator”, and made technical changes, effective July 1, 2013.