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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="9-513" title_number="9" title_name="Secured Transactions" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Filing">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A secured party shall cause the secured party of record for a financing statement to file a termination statement for the financing statement if the financing statement covers consumer goods and:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>There is no obligation secured by the collateral covered by the financing statement and no commitment to make an advance, incur an obligation, or otherwise give value; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The debtor did not authorize the filing of the initial financing statement.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>To comply with subsection (a), a secured party shall cause the secured party of record to file the termination statement:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Within 1 month after there is no obligation secured by the collateral covered by the financing statement and no commitment to make an advance, incur an obligation, or otherwise give value; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If earlier, within 20 days after the secured party receives an authenticated demand from a debtor.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>In cases not governed by subsection (a), within 20 days after a secured party receives an authenticated demand from a debtor, the secured party shall cause the secured party of record for a financing statement to send to the debtor a termination statement for the financing statement or file the termination statement in the filing office if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Except in the case of a financing statement covering accounts or chattel paper that has been sold or goods that are the subject of a consignment, there is no obligation secured by the collateral covered by the financing statement and no commitment to make an advance, incur an obligation, or otherwise give value;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The financing statement covers accounts or chattel paper that has been sold but as to which the account debtor or other person obligated has discharged its obligation;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The financing statement covers goods that were the subject of a consignment to the debtor but are not in the debtor’s possession; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The debtor did not authorize the filing of the initial financing statement.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>Except as otherwise provided in § 9-510, upon the filing of a termination statement with the filing office, the financing statement to which the termination statement relates ceases to be effective. Except as otherwise provided in § 9-510, for purposes of §§ 9-519(f), 9-522(a), and 9-523(b), the filing with the filing office of a termination statement relating to a financing statement that indicates that the debtor is a transmitting utility also causes the effectiveness of the financing statement to lapse.</text>
  </level>
</section>
