2006 Minnesota Statutes

272.488 COMPUTERIZED FILING OF TAX LIENS AND NOTICES.
    Subdivision 1. Filing with county recorders. Notices of federal tax liens, certificates, or
revocations of certificates of release of federal tax liens, refiled notices of any of those items, and
any other notices affecting federal tax liens that are required to be filed with the county recorder,
in a form prescribed by the Internal Revenue Service, may be filed with the county recorder by
mail, personal delivery, or by electronic transmission by the Secretary of the Treasury of the
United States or a delegate into the computerized database system. The secretary of state shall
transmit the notice electronically to the office of the county recorder in the county or counties
shown on the computer entry. The county recorder must endorse and file the notice and enter the
information into the computerized database system as required by section 272.483.
    Subd. 2. Central database. County recorders and the secretary of state shall enter
information relative to lien notices, releases, revocations of release, and refilings of any of those
items into the computerized database system of the secretary of state. For notices transmitted
electronically for filing with the county recorders, the date and time of filing of the notice and
county recorder's file number, and for notices transmitted electronically for filing with the
secretary of state, the secretary of state's filing information, must be entered by the filing officer
into the computerized database system before the close of the fifth working day following the
day of the original data transmission to the filing officer by the Internal Revenue Service. When
notices are transmitted electronically, the filing officer must file the notices the day they were
transmitted to the filing officer by the Internal Revenue Service. All other processing by the
county recorder of lien notices, releases, revocations of release and refilings of any of those items
must occur within the time period allowed in section 386.30.
    Subd. 3. Filing with secretary of state. (a) Notices of federal tax liens, certificates, or
revocations of certificates of release of federal tax liens, refiled notices of any of those items,
and any other notices affecting federal tax liens that are required to be filed with the secretary
of state, in a form prescribed by the Internal Revenue Service, may be filed with the secretary
of state by mail, personal delivery, or electronic transmission by the Secretary of the Treasury
of the United States or a delegate into the computerized filing system of the secretary of state.
The electronic record must be endorsed and indexed within the computerized database system as
required by section 272.483.
(b) For filings made pursuant to section 272.481, paragraph (c), clause (1), with the secretary
of state, when data entry is complete as required by subdivision 2, the original document is
contained in the computerized filing system and is the official copy from which all official copies
will be made. Reproductions of documents described in section 272.483, paragraph (a) or (b),
which are contained in the computerized filing system will be in the same format as if the
document had been filed on paper by the Internal Revenue Service.
    Subd. 4. Entry of information. For documents filed by mail or in person, the filing officer
shall enter the data as if it had been transmitted electronically. Once the electronic record is
created, it must be endorsed and indexed within the computerized database system. The filing
officer must write or mark the filing information on the document that was submitted and return
the document or a copy to the submitting party.
    Subd. 5. Transmission of filed information. The Secretary of the Treasury of the United
States or a delegate and the filing officers are authorized to develop a method which permits
entry of previously filed notices of federal tax liens into the computerized database system.
Should the Secretary of the Treasury and the filing officers decide to implement a method, entry
of previously filed notices of federal tax liens shall not be a new filing and the filing date of
the original document shall be maintained.
    Subd. 6. Official index. The index in the computerized filing system is the official index of
federal tax liens filed with the secretary of state under section 272.483, paragraph (a), clause (1).
The official index of federal tax lien records for the county recorders are those indices required
by chapter 386 and section 272.483, paragraph (a), clause (2).
History: 1991 c 291 art 18 s 10; 1994 c 438 s 1-3; 1995 c 144 s 4-9; 2001 c 195 art 2 s 17