2012 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes
Title 13 - COMMERCIAL CODE
Chapter 95 - Filing
Section 9523 - Information from filing office; sale or license of records

     § 9523.  Information from filing office; sale or license of
                records.
        (a)  Acknowledgment of filing written record.--If a person
     that files a written record requests an acknowledgment of the
     filing, the filing office shall send to the person an image of
     the record showing the number assigned to the record pursuant to
     section 9519(a)(1) (relating to numbering, maintaining and
     indexing records; communicating information provided in records)
     and the date and time of the filing of the record. However, if
     the person furnishes a copy of the record to the filing office,
     the filing office may instead:
            (1)  note upon the copy the number assigned to the record
        pursuant to section 9519(a)(1) and the date and time of the
        filing of the record; and
            (2)  send the copy to the person.
        (b)  Acknowledgment of filing other record.--If a person
     files a record other than a written record, the filing office
     shall communicate to the person an acknowledgment which
     provides:
            (1)  the information in the record;
            (2)  the number assigned to the record pursuant to
        section 9519(a)(1); and
            (3)  the date and time of the filing of the record.
        (c)  Communication of requested information.--The filing
     office shall communicate or otherwise make available in a record
     the following information to any person that requests it:
            (1)  Whether there is on file on a date and time
        specified by the filing office, but not a date earlier than
        three business days before the filing office receives the
        request, any financing statement which:
                (i)  designates a particular debtor or, if the
            request so states, designates a particular debtor at the
            address specified in the request;
                (ii)  has not lapsed under section 9515 (relating to
            duration and effectiveness of financing statement; effect
            of lapsed financing statement) with respect to all
            secured parties of record; and
                (iii)  if the request so states, has lapsed under
            section 9515 and a record of which is maintained by the
            filing office under section 9522(a) (relating to post-
            lapse maintenance and retrieval of information).
            (2)  The date and time of filing of each financing
        statement.
            (3)  The information provided in each financing
        statement.
        (d)  Medium for communicating information.--In complying with
     its duty under subsection (c), the filing office may communicate
     information in any medium. However, if requested, the filing
     office shall communicate information by issuing its written
     certificate.
        (e)  Timeliness of filing office performance.--
            (1)  Except as set forth in paragraph (2), the filing
        office shall perform the acts required by subsections (a)
        through (d) at the time and in the manner prescribed by
        filing-office rule.
            (2)  A filing office described in section 9501(a)(2)
        (relating to filing offices) shall perform the acts required
        by subsections (a) through (d) not later than five business
        days after the filing office receives the request.
        (f)  Public availability of records.--At least weekly, the
     filing office described in section 9501(a)(2) shall offer to
     sell or license to the public on a nonexclusive basis, in bulk,
     copies of all records filed in it under this chapter in every
     medium from time to time available to the filing office.

        Cross References.  Section 9523 is referred to in section
     9513 of this title.