LINCOLN, Neb. (Business Wire) -- Effective Financing Statement (EFS) original filings can now be submitted online to the Nebraska Secretary of State's office. EFS filings provide public notice of security interests held by lenders on crops and livestock. EFS filings join terminations and continuations as EFS documents that can be filed electronically.
The service is featured on the Nebraska state portal at www.nebraska.gov, or users can go directly to https://www.nebraska.gov/sos/ucc/ the UCC Division online search and filing center.
“This latest move meets two of my goals of office – to increase online services and to make it easier to conduct business in Nebraska,” said Secretary of State John Gale. “Having these filings online makes the process quicker and more convenient for the filer.”
Lenders regularly make loans on crops and livestock and secure those loans with a lien filing. The Secretary of State's Office issues a master lien list every quarter that identifies to interested parties the EFS filings of record.
“EFS filings are an extremely important public notice that brings stability and security to the commodity market place in Nebraska,” said Gale. “Such filings open up lines of credit to producers for loans by protecting lenders in the event of a sale of secured commodities. Nebraska lenders and purchasers rely heavily on the EFS system to work accurately and smoothly to make these lines of credit possible.”
Initial users of the system have written positive reviews and expressed appreciation for the work the Office of the Secretary of State put in to make this new filing service available.
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