Ohio Administrative Code|Rule 111:1-3-02 | Means to deliver UCC records; time of filing.

                                                
UCC records may be tendered for filing at the
		filing office as follows.
(A) Electronic filing - XML format. 
UCC records, excluding filing officer statements,
		  may be transmitted electronically using the XML format approved by the
		  international association of commercial administrators. At the request of an
		  authorized XML remitter, the filing office shall identify which versions and
		  releases of the XML format are acceptable to the filing office. The filing
		  office publishes an implementation guide that prescribes the use of the XML
		  format. The implementation guide shall be available to the public upon request.
		  The file date and time for a UCC record delivered by this method is the date
		  and time that the filing offices 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.
(B) Direct on-line and web page data entry. UCC records may
		  be delivered by on-line 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 on-line entry system.
(C) Means of communication. Regardless of the method of
		  delivery, information submitted to the UCC filing office must be communicated
		  only in the form of characters that appear on the American standard keyboard or
		  such information will be modified, upon entry into the UCC information
		  management system, as provided in rule 111:1-3-33 of the Administrative
		  Code.
(D) Hardship delivery. In the case of
		  hardship or other good cause, the secretary of state may, at its discretion,
		  allow for the communication of a UCC record by a method of communication other
		  than electronic filing. Hardship delivery may only occur after the filer has
		  received prior approval from the secretary of state. The secretary of state
		  will determine the policy and procedure used to accept and process a secured
		  transaction record under a hardship request.
(E) Transmitting utility, manufactured-home and
		  public-finance transactions. The only means to indicate to the filing office
		  that an initial financing statement is being filed in connection with a
		  manufactured-home or public-finance transaction, or that a financing statement
		  is being or has been filed against a debtor that is a transmitting utility is
		  to check the appropriate box on, or to transmit the indication in the proper
		  field in, the related initial financing statement.