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(a) Post-lapse maintenance and retrieval of information.— The filing office shall maintain a record of the information provided in a filed financing statement for at least one (1) year after the effectiveness of the financing statement has lapsed under § 2335 of this title with respect to all secured parties of record. The record must be retrievable by using the name of the debtor and:\n(1) If the record was filed or recorded in the filing office described in § 2321(a)(1) of this title, by using the file number assigned to the initial financing statement to which the record relates and the date that the record was filed or recorded; or\n(2) if the record was filed in the filing office described in § 2321(a)(2) of this title, by using the file number assigned to the initial financing statement to which the record relates.\n(b) Destruction of written records.— Except to the extent that a statute governing disposition of public records provides otherwise, the filing office immediately may destroy any written record evidencing a financing statement. However, if the filing office destroys a written record, it shall maintain another record of the financing statement which complies with

y destroy any written record evidencing a financing statement. However, if the filing office destroys a written record, it shall maintain another record of the financing statement which complies with subsection (a) of this section.\nHistory —Sept. 19, 1996, No. 241, added as § 9–522 on Jan. 17, 2012, No. 21, § 11, eff. 1 year after Jan. 17, 2012.