UCC search · Connecticut
Connecticut UCC search
The Connecticut Secretary of the State, Business Services Division keeps Connecticut's UCC filings: the notices lenders file to claim a business's assets. Search them by business or by lender and see each filing's status, dates and parties, with the source on every result.
What Connecticut's UCC records include
The fields a Clerkfield lien search returns for Connecticut.
- Original filing number and filing date
- Lien type: UCC financing statement, federal tax lien (IRS), state tax lien, Department of Labor lien, municipal lien and others
- Debtor names with full street addresses
- Lender (secured party) names with full street addresses
- Lapse date
- Status (active, lapsed or terminated)
- Later amendments, continuations and terminations with their numbers and dates
- Search by debtor or by lender
Not in Connecticut's free records
Active liens and those lapsed under a year; includes tax and municipal liens.
Search by lender
Yes. A lender search lists every Connecticut filing that names that secured party.
How to search Connecticut UCC filings by hand
The state's own search is at data.ct.gov. The lien data is free to search on data.ct.gov.
- Open the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) Lien Filings dataset on data.ct.gov.
- Filter Debtor Business Name (or the debtor name parts for a person) for the business you are checking.
- Note each Original Filing No. and filter on it to see every later filing against that lien.
- Read Lien Type to tell UCC filings (OFS) from tax, labor and municipal liens.
- Compare Lapse Date with today's date, since a lien past its lapse date can still read Active.
Connecticut specifics
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Besides UCC filings, the data includes IRS, state tax, Department of Labor, municipal, vessel and aircraft liens. Municipal liens alone are about a quarter of the rows.
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Only active liens and those less than a year past their lapse date are included, so older history is not there.
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A lapse date of December 31, 9999 means the lien has no lapse date and lasts until released. Such liens stay in the data for a year after release.
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Some liens past their lapse date still say Active in the state's data. Clerkfield shows them as lapsed.
Check the business behind the lien
Before you rely on a lien search, confirm the business is registered and active in Connecticut.
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Yes. Alongside about 506,000 UCC filings there are about 82,000 IRS liens, 222,000 municipal liens and smaller groups of state tax and Department of Labor liens. Clerkfield labels each by type.
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Not in the open data. It keeps active liens plus those less than a year past their lapse date; older ones drop out.
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The lien has no lapse date and stays in force until it is released. After release it remains in the data for one more year.
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Active, Released and Terminated. Almost every row says Active, including some past their lapse date, so always read the lapse date too.
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Yes. The state's data names the secured party on every row, and Clerkfield offers lender search in Connecticut.