1.

 Sufficiency of financing statement.

 Subject to subsection 2, a financing statement is sufficient only if it:

 a. provides the name of the debtor;
 b. provides the name of the secured party or a representative of the secured party; and
 c. indicates the collateral covered by the financing statement.

Terms Used In Iowa Code 554.9502

  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • property: includes personal and real property. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • real property: include lands, tenements, hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein, equitable as well as legal. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Record: means the same as defined in section 554D. See Iowa Code 554E.1
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the said district and territories. See Iowa Code 4.1
 2.

 Real-property-related financing statements.

 Except as otherwise provided in section 554.9501, subsection 2, to be sufficient, a financing statement that covers as-extracted collateral or timber to be cut, or which is filed as a fixture filing and covers goods that are or are to become fixtures, must satisfy subsection 1 and also:

 a. indicate that it covers this type of collateral;
 b. indicate that it is to be filed for record in the real property records;
 c. provide a description of the real property to which the collateral is related sufficient to give constructive notice of a mortgage under the law of this state if the description were contained in a record of the mortgage of the real property; and
 d. if the debtor does not have an interest of record in the real property, provide the name of a record owner.
 3.

 Record of mortgage as financing statement.

 A record of a mortgage is effective, from the date of recording, as a financing statement filed as a fixture filing or as a financing statement covering as-extracted collateral or timber to be cut only if:

 a. the record indicates the goods or accounts that it covers;
 b. the goods are or are to become fixtures related to the real property described in the record or the collateral is related to the real property described in the record and is as-extracted collateral or timber to be cut;
 c. the record satisfies the requirements for a financing statement in this section, but

 (1) the record need not indicate that it is to be filed in the real property records; and
 (2) the record sufficiently provides the name of a debtor who is an individual if it provides the individual name of the debtor or the surname and first personal name of the debtor, even if the debtor is an individual to whom section 554.9503, subsection 1, paragraph “d” applies; and
 d. the record is duly recorded.
 4.

 Filing before security agreement or attachment.

 A financing statement may be filed before a security agreement is made or a security interest otherwise attaches.