Wyo. Code R. 002-0001-1
Effective Date: 08/11/2021 to Current
Rule Type: Current Rules & Regulations
Reference Number: 002.0001.1.08112021
Section 1. Statement of Purpose. These rules are adopted to promote the uniform administration of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) as authorized in W.S. 34.1-9-526.
(i) 'Amendment' means a UCC record that amends the information contained in a financing statement. Amendments include assignments, continuations and terminations.
(ii) 'Assignment' is an amendment that assigns all or a part of a secured party's power to authorize an amendment to a financing statement.
(iii) 'Correction statement' means a UCC record, filed before July 1, 2013, that indicates that a financing statement is inaccurate or wrongfully filed.
(iv) 'Individual debtor name' means a human being, or a decedent in the case of a debtor that is a decedent's estate.
(v) 'Information statement' means a UCC record, filed on or after July 1, 2013, that indicates that a financing statement is inaccurate or wrongfully filed.
(vi) 'Initial financing statement' means a UCC record containing the information required to be in an initial financing statement and that causes the filing office to establish the initial record of existence of a financing statement.
(vii) 'Internet Filing Service' or 'UCC E-Filing System' means an on-line filing service administered by the Secretary of State's Office that provides authorized users with the capability to file all UCC records immediately and conduct searches that provide immediate results.
(viii) 'Organization debtor name' means a legal business entity who is not an individual.
(ix) 'Remitter' means an individual or registered organization that tenders a UCC record to the filing officer for filing, whether the remitter is a filer or an agent of a filer responsible for tendering the record for filing. 'Remitter' does not include an individual or registered organization responsible merely for the delivery of the record to the filing office, such as the postal service or a courier service, but does include a service provider who acts as a filer's representative in the filing process.
(x) "UCC1" means the form used for a new initial financing statement.
(xi) "UCC3" means the form used for a UCC amendment filing, which includes the following actions:
(A) Assignment: Full or Partial; (B) Collateral: Add, Restate, or Delete; (C) Continuation Statement; (D) Debtor: Add, Change, or Delete; (E) Information Statement (formerly known as correction statement); (F) Secured Party: Add, Change, or Delete; and (G) Termination Statement.
(xii) "UCC5" means the form used for a UCC information statement filing.
(xiii) "UCC record" means an initial financing statement, an amendment, an assignment, a continuation, a termination or a correction statement.
(b) Paper Filing Fees.
(i) There is no fee for filing a termination statement.
(ii) The fee is $30 for filing an initial financing statement. The fee is $60 if there are more than two (2) pages.
(iii) Except for a continuation, the fee is $15 for filing any amendment on paper which contains up to two (2) pages.
(A) If there are more than two (2) pages, the fee is $30.
(B) The remitter may file multiple UCC3 amendments to the same initial financing statement for one fee. For example, the following combinations of amendments, or portions thereof, may be made for one fee of $15:
(I) Debtor and collateral amendments; or (II) Secured party and collateral amendments.
(iv) The fee is $30 for filing a continuation statement.
(v) The fee is $10 per debtor name for a certified UCC search.
(vi) The fee is 50 cents per page for a copy of a UCC record.
(c) Electronic Filing Fees.
(i) There is no fee for filing a termination statement.
(ii) The fee is $15 for an initial financing statement.
(iii) Except for a continuation, the fee is $7.50 for filing any amendment electronically.
(A) The remitter may file multiple UCC3 amendments to the same initial financing statement for one fee. For example, the following combinations of amendments, or portions thereof, may be made for one fee of $7.50:
(I) Debtor and collateral amendments; or
(II) Secured party and collateral amendments.
(iv) Continuation and information statements (correction statements) must be filed separately.
(v) The fee is $15 for filing a continuation statement.
(vi) There is no fee for a certified UCC search.
(vii) The fee is $300.00 annually for the Internet Filing Service (up to ten (10) users).
(viii) The fee is $2,000 annually for the Internet Download Service (up to two (2) users).
(d) Use of Forms.
(i) Acceptable forms are prescribed by the International Association of Commercial Administrators (IACA) forms which are available through the Forms section of the Wyoming Secretary of State's website at
(i) The duties and responsibilities of the filing officer with respect to the administration of the UCC are ministerial and the filing office bears no responsibility for the legal effectiveness of a filing. In accepting for filing or refusing to file a UCC record pursuant to these rules, the filing officer does none of the following:
(A) Determine the legal sufficiency or insufficiency of a UCC record.
(B) Determine that a security interest in collateral exists or does not exist.
(C) Determine that information in the UCC record is correct or incorrect, in whole or in part.
(D) Create a presumption that information in the document is correct or incorrect, in whole or in part.
(ii) If a remitter demonstrates to the satisfaction of the filing officer that a UCC record that was refused for filing should have been filed, the filing officer will file it and the effective date and time of filing shall be the date and time the UCC record was originally tendered for filing.
(iii) If the filing officer finds grounds to refuse a UCC record, the filing officer shall return the UCC record and communicate in writing, whether via hard copy or email correspondence, the reasons for the rejection and the filing officer shall return or refund the filing fee.
(i) When entering information into the UCC system from paper UCC records, the debtor and/or secured party name(s) shall be entered exactly as set forth on the filing form even if it appears that the name of an individual debtor has been placed in the field designated for an organization debtor name, and vice versa.
(i) The time of filing for a UCC record filed electronically through on-line entry is the date and time the Wyoming UCC E-System accepts the filing.
(ii) For all UCC records delivered to the filing office:
(A) The time of filing shall be the date and time the UCC record is entered and accepted by the Wyoming UCC E-Filing System, which in no event shall be later than two (2) business days after the filing office receives the record. No priority is given to UCC records received in the filing office.
(B) The email address associated with the filer of an initial financing statement or amendment may be provided on each filing to allow for the electronic transmittal of confirmation of filing for each paper filing filed by the filing office.
(a) General Requirements.
(i) The filing officer maintains a searchable index for all UCC records. The index shall provide for the retrieval of a record by the name of the debtor and by the file number of the initial financing statement and each filed UCC record relating to the initial financing statement.
(ii) Search requests presented to the Secretary of State's Office shall be in written form which includes hard copy or electronic.
(iii) Search requests shall contain the full name of the debtor to be searched and the request must specify whether the debtor is an individual debtor name or an organization debtor name.
(b) Rules Applied to Certified Search Requests.
(i) Certified search results are produced by the application of standardized search logic. Human judgment does not play a role in determining the results of the search. The following logic apply to certified searches:
(A) There is no limit to the number of matches that may be returned in response to the search criteria.
(B) No distinction is made between upper and lower case letters.
(C) Punctuation marks and accents are disregarded.
(D) Words and abbreviations at the end of a name that indicate the existence or nature of an organization as set forth in the ending noise words list are disregarded. The ending noise words list may be found on the Secretary of State's website at https://ucc.wyo.gov.
(E) The word “the” at the beginning of the search criteria is disregarded.
(F) All spaces are disregarded.
(G) For first and middle names of individuals, initials are treated as the logical equivalent of all names that begin with such initials
(I) Example: a search request for John A. Smith would cause the search to retrieve all filings against all individual debtor names with “John” as the first name, “Smith” as the last name, and the initial “A” or any name beginning with “A” in the middle name field.
(II) Example: a search request for J. A. Smith would cause the search to retrieve all filings against all individual debtor names with the initial “J” as the first name or any first name beginning with “J”; “Smith” as the last name; and the initial “A” or any name beginning with “A” in the middle name field.
(H) First name and no middle name or initial is equated with all middle names and initials.
(I) Example: a search request for “John Smith” (first and last names with no designation in the middle name field) would cause the search to retrieve all filings against individual debtor names with “John” as the first name; “Smith” as the last name and with any name or initial or no name or initial in the middle name field.
(c) Certified Search Request Responses.
(i) Results of certified search requests shall include:
(A) The certification of the filing office;
(B) Identification of the filing officer;
(C) The typed name of the filing officer in lieu of a signature;
(D) The date and time the report was generated;
(E) Identification of the name searched;
(F) The certification date and time for which the search is effective;
(G) Identification of each unlapsed initial financing statement filed on or prior to the certification date and time corresponding to the search criteria; and (H) If requested, copies of all UCC records revealed by the search.