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UCC search · Rhode Island

Rhode Island UCC search

The Rhode Island Department of State, Business Services Division keeps Rhode Island'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 Rhode Island's UCC records include

The fields a Clerkfield lien search returns for Rhode Island.

  • File number and filing date of the original UCC-1
  • Debtor names with full street addresses
  • Lender (secured party) names with full street addresses, including lenders removed by a later amendment or assignment
  • Collateral description as filed
  • Every later filing: continuations, amendments, assignments and terminations, with file numbers and dates
  • Lapse date, worked out by Clerkfield: five years from filing, plus five years for each continuation
  • Status (active, lapsed or terminated), worked out by Clerkfield from the filing history
  • Link to the filed document image (PDF)

Not in Rhode Island's free records

Nothing we know of: the free records carry every field listed here.

Search by lender

Yes. A lender search lists every Rhode Island filing that names that secured party.

How to search Rhode Island UCC filings by hand

The state's own search is at business.sos.ri.gov. Free to search and to open filing images. Certified copies cost extra.

  1. Open the Department of State UCC search at business.sos.ri.gov.
  2. Pick Organization and type the business name. Leave the method on Article 9, or use Begins With if you are not sure of the exact legal name.
  3. Choose whether to list debtors, secured parties or assignees, then search.
  4. Click a filing number to open its history: each UCC-1 and UCC-3 with parties, addresses, collateral and a PDF of the document.
  5. For filings more than a year past lapse, use the separate lapsed-filings search linked on the same page.

Rhode Island specifics

01

The state's search shows no status or lapse date. Clerkfield calculates both from the filing date and any continuations on file.

02

In Rhode Island's index, a termination statement does not change the record's status. Clerkfield shows a filing with a termination on file as terminated.

03

Filings stay in the main search for at least a year after they lapse. Older ones are in a separate lapsed-filings database.

04

You can search by lender: the state lets you limit results to secured parties or assignees, and Clerkfield offers lender search in Rhode Island.

Check the business behind the lien

Clerkfield doesn't check Rhode Island business registrations yet. A UCC filing names the debtor as it appears in the state of organization, so confirm the exact legal name there first.

Frequently asked questions.

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  • No. Searching and opening the filed documents as PDFs is free on the Department of State site. Certified copies are a paid extra.

  • The state's results list filings and their history but have no status or lapse date column. Clerkfield works them out: five years from the filing date, five more for each continuation, and terminated if a termination is on file.

  • No. The Department of State says a termination does not change the record's status in its index. The filing stays searchable until a year after it lapses, so read the history before treating a lien as live.

  • At least one year after the lapse date. After that they move to a separate lapsed-filings search linked from the main page.

  • Yes. The state's search can be limited to secured parties or assignees, and Clerkfield runs lender searches in Rhode Island.

  • Begins With matches the start of any word in a name, so it finds near spellings. Article 9 is the default and uses the standard UCC search logic, which needs the debtor's correct legal name.