central filing system
(2) The term “central filing system” means a system for filing effective financing statements or notice of such financing statements on a statewide basis and which has been certified by the Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture; the Secretary shall certify such system if the system complies with the requirements of this section; specifically under such system— (A) effective financing statements or notice of such financing statements are filed with the office of the Secretary of State of a State; (B) the Secretary of State records the date and hour of the filing of such statements; (C) the Secretary of State compiles all such statements into a master list— (i) organized according to farm products; (ii) arranged within each such product— (I) in alphabetical order according to the last name of the individual debtors, or, in the case of debtors doing business other than as individuals, the first word in the name of such debtors; and (II) in numerical order according to the social security number, or other approved unique identifier, of the individual debtors or, in the case of debtors doing business other than as individuals, the Internal Revenue Service taxpayer identification number, or other approved unique identifier, of such debtors, except that the numerical list containing social security or taxpayer identification numbers may be encrypted for security purposes if the Secretary of State provides a method by which an effective search of the encrypted numbers may be conducted to determine whether the farm product at issue is subject to 1 or more liens; and (III) geographically by county or parish; and (IV) by crop year; (iii) containing the information referred to in paragraph (4)(D); (D) the Secretary of State maintains a list of all buyers of farm products, commission merchants, and selling agents who register with the Secretary of State, on a form indicating— (i) the name and address of each buyer, commission merchant and selling agent; (ii) the interest of each buyer, commission merchant, and selling agent in receiving the lists described in subparagraph (E); and (iii) the farm products in which each buyer, commission merchant, and selling agent has an interest; (E) the Secretary of State distributes regularly as prescribed by the State to each buyer, commission merchant, and selling agent on the list described in subparagraph (D) a copy in written or printed form of those portions of the master list described in subparagraph (C) that cover the farm products in which such buyer, commission merchant, or selling agent has registered an interest except that— (i) the distribution of the portion of the master list may be in electronic, written, or printed form; and (ii) if social security or taxpayer identification numbers on the master list are encrypted, the Secretary of State may distribute the master list only— (I) by compact disc or other electronic media that contains— (aa) the recorded list of debtor names; and (bb) an encryption program that enables the buyer, commission merchant, and selling agent to enter a social security number for matching against the recorded list of encrypted social security or taxpayer identification numbers; and (II) on the written request of the buyer, commission merchant, or selling agent, by paper copy of the list to the requestor; (F) the Secretary of State furnishes to those who are not registered pursuant to (2)(D) of this section oral confirmation within 24 hours of any effective financing statement on request followed by written confirmation to any buyer of farm products buying from a debtor, or commission merchant or selling agent selling for a seller covered by such statement.