Ohio Code 1309.506 – Effect of errors or omissions – UCC 9-506
(A) A financing statement that substantially satisfies the requirements of sections 1309.501 to 1309.527 of the Revised Code is effective, even if it has minor errors or omissions, unless the errors or omissions make the financing statement seriously misleading.
Terms Used In Ohio Code 1309.506
- Debtor: means :
(a) A person having an interest, other than a security interest or other lien, in the collateral, whether or not the person is an obligor;
(b) A seller of accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, or promissory notes; or
(c) A consignee. See Ohio Code 1309.102
- Filing office: means an office designated in section 1309. See Ohio Code 1309.102
- Financing statement: means a record composed of an initial financing statement and any filed record or records relating to the initial financing statement. See Ohio Code 1309.102
- New debtor: means a person that becomes bound as debtor under division (D) of section 1309. See Ohio Code 1309.102
(B) Except as otherwise provided in division (C) of this section, a financing statement that fails sufficiently to provide the name of the debtor in accordance with division (A) of section 1309.503 of the Revised Code is seriously misleading.
(C) 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 division (A) of section 1309.503 of the Revised Code, the name provided does not make the financing statement seriously misleading.
(D) For purposes of division (B) of section 1309.508 of the Revised Code, the “debtor’s correct name” referred to in division (C) of this section means the correct name of the new debtor.