UCC documents may be tendered for filing at the filing office as follows.

1. (1) Personal delivery, at the filing office's street address. The file time for a UCC document delivered by this method is when delivery of the UCC document is accepted by the filing office (even though the UCC document may not yet have been accepted for filing and may be subsequently rejected).
2. (2) Delivery service, at the filing office's street address. The file time for a UCC document delivered by this method is the 5:00 PM CT on a day the filing office is open to the public (even though the UCC document may not yet have been accepted for filing and may be subsequently rejected).
3. (3) Postal service delivery, to the filing office's street or mailing address. The file time for a UCC document delivered by this method is the 5:00 PM CT on a day the filing office is open to the public (even though the UCC document may not yet have been accepted for filing and may be subsequently rejected).
4. (4) Telefacsimile (fax) delivery, to the filing office's fax filing telephone number. The file time for a UCC document delivered by this method is when delivery of the UCC document is accepted by the filing office (even though the UCC document may not yet have been accepted for filing, may be subsequently rejected, and may indicate that the UCC document was received at an earlier time.

5. (5) Electronic filing.

   1. (A) UCC documents may be transmitted electronically using the ANSI X12 154 transmission standard as described in §95.350 et seq. of this title. The file time for a UCC document delivered by this method is the time that the filing office's EDI 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.
   2. (B) UCC documents may be transmitted electronically through on-line entry as described in §95.370 et seq. of this title. The file time for a UCC document delivered by this method is the time that the filing office's on-line 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.

Source Note:The provisions of this §95.106 adopted to be effective September 4, 2001, 26 TexReg 6654.