posted by hot news on Jun 25
This How to Make a UCC Search article is from MLQ Attorney Services, an attorney services firm in Atlanta, Georgia
A Uniform Commercial Code, or UCC search, enables you to check the UCC databases for a number of commercial entities. The UCC is a mode code devised to unify various aspects of commercial law in order to overcome discrepancies and problems arising from transactions between states. As such it is not law unless an individual state adopts the Code, or parts of it, as Georgia and another 48 states have done, although there are some local variations.
If you are seeking legal advice on the Code, or any UCC search, legislative members of the Georgia General Assembly cannot answer you and have ask your lawyer. A UCC search can be carried out on any of the UCC databases, and a fee is charged for the search. If you are seeking information from a UCC database, there is a specific procedure to follow, and you are advised to use a legal service to help you.
Carrying out a debtor search, for example, involves either an online or paper form, and a certified search involves you using the name of an organization or individual exactly as contained in the database. Wildcards are not permitted except for non-certified UCC searches.
A good legal service will not only help you with you UCC search, but also to maintain your UCC filings and notify you of UCC expirations. It would pay for itself by be enabling you to better control your search and filing costs and use online reporting to audit monthly expenditures.