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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 622 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1987 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 2010, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?101+ful+CHAP0794\">794<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":63347,"section_number":"6.2-405","catch_line":"References to sections regulating rebates of unearned interest and prepayment penalties","order_by":null,"url":"\/6.2-405\/"}],"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":263549,"object_type":"law","relational_id":82644,"identifier":"6.2-420","token":"6.2\/I\/4\/2\/6.2-420","url":"\/6.2-420\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/6.2-420\/","token":"6.2\/I\/4\/2\/6.2-420","dublin_core":{"Title":"Prepayment penalty not to be collected in certain circumstances","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 6.2-420","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>No lender shall collect or receive any prepayment <span class=\"dictionary\">penalty<\/span> on loans secured by real property comprised of one- to four-family residential dwelling units if the prepayment results from the enforcement of the right to call the loan upon the sale of the real property that secures the loan. If the loan is prepaid because of sale to a <span class=\"dictionary\">person<\/span> who the lender has refused to approve for purposes of assuming the loan or failed to approve within 15 days after receipt by it of written request for approval, the prepayment shall be presumed to result from enforcement of the right to call the loan.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nPREPAYMENT PENALTY NOT TO BE COLLECTED IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES (\u00a7 6.2-420)\n\nNo lender shall collect or receive any prepayment penalty on loans secured by\nreal property comprised of one- to four-family residential dwelling units if the\nprepayment results from the enforcement of the right to call the loan upon the\nsale of the real property that secures the loan. If the loan is prepaid because\nof sale to a person who the lender has refused to approve for purposes of\nassuming the loan or failed to approve within 15 days after receipt by it of\nwritten request for approval, the prepayment shall be presumed to result from\nenforcement of the right to call the loan.\n\nHISTORY: 1987, c. 622, \u00a7 6.1-330.87; 2010, c. 794.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}