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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="9-512" title_number="9" title_name="Secured Transactions" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Filing">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Subject to § 9-509, a person may add or delete collateral covered by, continue or terminate the effectiveness of, or, subject to subsection (e), otherwise amend the information provided in, a financing statement by filing an amendment that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Identifies, by its file number, the initial financing statement to which the amendment relates; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the amendment relates to an initial financing statement filed or recorded in a filing office described in § 9-501(a)(1), provides the information specified in § 9-502(b).</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Except as otherwise provided in § 9-515, the filing of an amendment does not extend the period of effectiveness of the financing statement.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A financing statement that is amended by an amendment that adds collateral is effective as to the added collateral only from the date of the filing of the amendment.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>A financing statement that is amended by an amendment that adds a debtor is effective as to the added debtor only from the date of the filing of the amendment.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>An amendment is ineffective to the extent it:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Purports to delete all debtors and fails to provide the name of a debtor to be covered by the financing statement; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Purports to delete all secured parties of record and fails to provide the name of a new secured party of record.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
