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This law was first created in 2024. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 652<\/a> 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.<\/p>","references":[{"id":55188,"section_number":"8.13-301","catch_line":"Savings clause","order_by":null,"url":"\/8.13-301\/"}],"refers_to":[{"id":74128,"section_number":"8.9A-203","catch_line":"Attachment and enforceability of security interest; proceeds, supporting obligations; formal requisites","order_by":null,"url":"\/8.9A-203\/"}],"permalink":{"id":281801,"object_type":"law","relational_id":65704,"identifier":"8.13-302","token":"8.13\/3\/8.13-302","url":"\/8.13-302\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/8.13-302\/","token":"8.13\/3\/8.13-302","dublin_core":{"Title":"Security interest perfected before effective date","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 8.13-302","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

a.<\/span> Continuing perfection: perfection requirements satisfied. A security interest that is enforceable and perfected immediately before the effective date of this act is a perfected security interest under this act if, on the effective date of this act, the requirements for enforceability and perfection under this act are satisfied without further action. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

b.<\/span> Continuing perfection: enforceability or perfection requirements not satisfied. If a security interest is enforceable and perfected immediately before the effective date of this act, but the requirements for enforceability or perfection under this act are not satisfied on the effective date of this act, the security interest: <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

1.<\/span> is a perfected security interest until the earlier of the time perfection would have ceased under the law<\/span> in effect immediately before the effective date of this act or the adjustment date; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

2.<\/span> remains enforceable thereafter only if the security interest satisfies the requirements for enforceability under § 8.9A-203<\/a>, as amended by this act, before the adjustment date; and <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

3.<\/span> remains perfected thereafter only if the requirements for perfection under this act are satisfied before the time specified in paragraph (1). <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nSECURITY INTEREST PERFECTED BEFORE EFFECTIVE DATE (\u00a7 8.13-302)\n\na. Continuing perfection: perfection requirements satisfied. A security interest\nthat is enforceable and perfected immediately before the effective date of this\nact is a perfected security interest under this act if, on the effective date of\nthis act, the requirements for enforceability and perfection under this act are\nsatisfied without further action.\n\nb. Continuing perfection: enforceability or perfection requirements not\nsatisfied. If a security interest is enforceable and perfected immediately\nbefore the effective date of this act, but the requirements for enforceability\nor perfection under this act are not satisfied on the effective date of this\nact, the security interest:\n\n 1. is a perfected security interest until the earlier of the time perfection\n would have ceased under the law in effect immediately before the effective\n date of this act or the adjustment date;\n\n 2. remains enforceable thereafter only if the security interest satisfies the\n requirements for enforceability under § 8.9A-203, as amended by this act,\n before the adjustment date; and\n\n 3. remains perfected thereafter only if the requirements for perfection under\n this act are satisfied before the time specified in paragraph (1).\n\nHISTORY: 2024, c. 652.","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}}