§ 2106.5.Application and construction of title

Added nearly twenty years after the rest of this title, this section brings the filing scheme into the computer age. It directs that the title be applied and construed to permit transmission, filing, recording, and indexing of federal tax lien notices, and every certificate that relates to or affects those liens, release, discharge, subordination, nonattachment, and others the section does not bother to list by name, through electronic or magnetic means, using whatever computerized data processing, telecommunications, and similar technology a filing office has available.

The section is a construction directive rather than a technical manual. It does not prescribe a file format, a transmission protocol, or a specific system; it clears away any argument that the title's original, paper-oriented language stops a filing officer from accepting or processing these documents electronically. The Secretary of State's office already runs much of its lien and financing-statement filing electronically under the Commercial Code, and this section makes clear that federal lien filings are meant to fit into that same modern infrastructure rather than being stuck on paper by default.