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 Wisconsin Administrative Code (Last Updated: January 10, 2017)
 Agency DFI. Department of Financial Institutions
 Chapters DFI-CCS1-20. Department of Financial Institutions-Corporate and Consumer Services
 Chapter DFI-CCS1. Uniform Commercial Code Section

  Section 1.06. UCC document delivery.  

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  •   UCC documents shall be tendered for filing at the filing office by any of the following:
    (1)  When filed by personal delivery at the filing office's street address, the file time shall be the time that the UCC document is accepted for review by the filing office even though the UCC document may not yet have been accepted for filing and may subsequently be rejected. A UCC document delivered after regular business hours or on a day the filing office is not open for business shall have a filing time of the start of business on the next day the filing office is open for business.
    (2)  When filed by courier delivery at the filing office's street address, the file time shall be the time of delivery, even though the UCC document may not yet have been accepted for filing and may subsequently be rejected. A UCC document delivered after regular business hours or on a day the filing office is not open for business shall have a filing time of the start of business on the next day the filing office is open for business.
    (3)  When filed by postal service delivery, the file time shall be the date and time of actual arrival in the filing office, even though the UCC document may not yet have been accepted for filing and may subsequently be rejected. A UCC document delivered after regular business hours or on a day the filing office is not open for business shall have a filing time of the start of business on the next day the filing office is open for business.
    (4)   Electronic filing.
    (a) When available, UCC documents may be transmitted electronically by any of the following:
    1. Using the XML standard approved by the International Association of Corporation Administrators as described in ss. DFI-CCS 3.14 to 3.20 .
    2. Transmitting a UCC document through data entry on the filing officer's Internet web page.
    (b) The file time for a UCC document delivered by these methods shall be the time that the filing office's system analyzes the relevant transmission and determines that the required elements of the transmission have been received in the required format and are machine readable.