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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="9-509" title_number="9" title_name="Secured Transactions" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Filing">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A person may file an initial financing statement, amendment that adds collateral covered by a financing statement, or amendment that adds a debtor to a financing statement only if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The debtor authorizes the filing in an authenticated record or pursuant to subsection (b) or (c); or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The person holds an agricultural lien that has become effective at the time of filing and the financing statement covers only collateral in which the person holds an agricultural lien.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>By authenticating or becoming bound as a debtor by a security agreement, a debtor or new debtor authorizes the filing of an initial financing statement, and an amendment, covering:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The collateral described in the security agreement; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Property that becomes collateral under § 9–315(a)(2), whether or not the security agreement expressly covers proceeds.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>By acquiring collateral in which a security interest or agricultural lien continues under § 9–315(a)(1), a debtor authorizes the filing of an initial financing statement, and an amendment, covering the collateral and property that becomes collateral under § 9–315(a)(2).</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>A person may file an amendment other than an amendment that adds collateral covered by a financing statement or an amendment that adds a debtor to a financing statement only if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The secured party of record authorizes the filing; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The amendment is a termination statement for a financing statement as to which the secured party of record has failed to file or send a termination statement as required by § 9–513, the debtor authorizes the filing, and the termination statement indicates that the debtor authorized it to be filed.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>If there is more than one secured party of record for a financing statement, each secured party of record may authorize the filing of an amendment under subsection (d).</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>A person who files a financing statement or an amendment to a financing statement that the person knows contains false information is subject to the penalty provided in § 9–508 of the Criminal Law Article.</text>
  </level>
</section>
