1. (a) Forms. The Secretary of the State may prescribe and furnish on request forms required or permitted to be filed by sections 42a-9-101 to 42a-9- 809, inclusive, of the Connecticut General Statutes, but their use is not mandatory.

2. (b) Record delivery. UCC records may be communicated for filing at the filing office as follows:

   1. (1) Personal delivery. Personal delivery by remitter, at the filing office’s street address. The file date and time for a UCC record delivered by this method is when delivery of the UCC record is taken by the filing office (even though the UCC record may not yet have been accepted for filing and subsequently may be rejected). A UCC record delivered after regular business hours or on a day the filing office is not open for business shall have a filing date and time of 8:30 am on the next day the filing office is open for business.
   2. (2) Postal or courier delivery. United States Postal Service delivery, to the filing office’s mailing address or courier delivery, to the filing office’s street address. The file date and time for an accepted UCC record delivered by this method is 8:30 a.m. on the date it is received in the filing office. An accepted UCC record delivered after regular business hours or on a day the filing office is not open for business shall have a filing date and time of 8:30 a.m. on the next day the filing office is open for business.
   3. (3) Digital mail. Electronic mail delivery, to the filing office’s website via digital upload of the UCC record in portable document format (“PDF”) not to exceed 8 megabytes. The file date and time for an accepted UCC record delivered by this method is the date and time it is received in the filing office. An accepted UCC record delivered after regular business hours or on a day the filing office is not open for business shall have a filing date and time of 8:30 a.m. on the next day the filing office is open for business.
   4. (4) Direct web entry. Excluding filing officer statements, electronic delivery using an Application Programming Interface (“API”), in extensible markup language (“XML”), or similar format approved by the International Association of Commercial Administrators. At the request of an authorized remitter, the filing office shall identify which versions and releases of the electronic format are acceptable to the filing office. The filing office shall publish an implementation guide that prescribes the use of the electronic format and make such implementation guide available to approved stakeholders. The file date and time for a UCC record delivered by this method is the date and time that the filing office’s UCC information management system analyzes the relevant transmission and determines that all the required elements of the transmission have been received in a required format and are machine-readable.
   5. (5) Direct web page data entry. Online data entry using the filing office’s website on the internet. The file date and time for a UCC record delivered by this method is the date and time the entry of all required elements of the UCC record in the proper format is acknowledged by the online data entry system.
3. (c) Transmitting utility and public-finance transactions. The only means to indicate that an initial financing statement is filed in connection with a public-finance transaction or that the debtor is a transmitting utility, is on the initial financing statement.

(Adopted effective December 11, 2002; Amended March 18, 2026)