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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="9-506" title_number="9" title_name="Secured Transactions" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Filing">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A financing statement substantially satisfying the requirements of this subtitle is effective, even if it has minor errors or omissions, unless the errors or omissions make the financing statement seriously misleading.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c), a financing statement that fails sufficiently to provide the name of the debtor in accordance with § 9-503(a) is seriously misleading.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>If a search of the records of the filing office under the debtor’s correct name, using the filing office’s standard search logic, if any, would disclose a financing statement that fails sufficiently to provide the name of the debtor in accordance with § 9-503(a), the name provided does not make the financing statement seriously misleading.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>For purposes of § 9-508(b), the “debtor’s correct name” in subsection (c) means the correct name of the new debtor.</text>
  </level>
</section>
