Nebraska
UCC refusal when debtor equals secured party; clerks must refuse NCCLs What the badges mean
Last verified: July 27, 2026 — confirm current text on the official site; this date is not a promise the law is unchanged.
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UCC financing statements
Check if one exists
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Refusal / removal authority
Nebraska UCC §9-516(b)(8) lets the filing office refuse a record if the same person or entity is both debtor and secured party — a narrow but statutory clerk-level ground, not mere practice.
NE §9-516
NE §9-513A
Full citations
- Neb. UCC §9-516(b)(8)
- Neb. UCC §9-513A
The filing office refuses at filing when debtor and secured party are the same. §9-513A is a separate post-filing unauthorized-financing-statement affidavit / SoS termination path.
If it's already filed: §9-513A affidavit/admin termination; NCCL chapter §52-1901–1904 / §52-1907; information statement / §9-625.
Real-property liens
Nebraska's §52-1903 requires filing officers to refuse any nonconsensual common-law lien. Court tools and civil liability sit in the same chapter — civil liability is §52-1907 (former §52-1902 was transferred).
NE §52-1901
NE §52-1907
Full citations
- Neb. Rev. Stat. §52-1901–1904
- Neb. Rev. Stat. §52-1907
Clerk shall refuse an NCCL at filing; court order can strike under §52-1904; damages under §52-1907.
If it's already recorded: Court strike + civil liability under §52-1907.
Real-property records are held by the register of deeds where the property sits.
No official form: Affidavit for an unauthorized financing statement
Who this is for: The statute excludes filings made by a financial institution or its representative, or by an agricultural input supplier or its representative.
The Nebraska Secretary of State's UCC forms list includes no form for a §9-513A affidavit. Under the statute, a person identified as debtor may submit a notarized affidavit, signed under penalty of perjury, stating that the filer was not entitled to file under §9-509, §9-708, or §9-808. If the office accepts it, the office may file a termination statement noting it was filed under §9-513A.
Read UCC §9-513A on the Nebraska Legislature site →
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NE §9-513A
How this usually works in Nebraska
A summary of the tools Nebraska law and filing offices provide — general information, not instructions for your facts. Confirm current practice with the filing office and talk to an attorney about your situation.
- 1Nebraska UCC debtor-name search requires an account (a paid path); filing-number lookup can be public at business.nebraska.gov.
- 2UCC §9-516(b)(8) lets the filing office refuse a filing that lists the same person as debtor and secured party.
- 3For a nonconsensual common-law lien on land, §52-1903 makes refusal by the register of deeds mandatory.
- 4After filing, §9-513A provides an affidavit-termination path for an unauthorized financing statement (described in the form section above).
What to expect
Nebraska's dual NCCL / debtor=SP tools are statutory; debtor-name UCC search itself is account-gated. Confirm the current fee on the state's official site — filing and search fees change and are not published here.
Sources: the LienGuardAI fifty-state survey and UCC search portal review (How we verify). No dollar fee amounts are published here — always confirm the current fee on the state's own site.