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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>64661</law_id><section_number>55.1-653</section_number><catch_line>Where notices and certificates affecting liens to be filed</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>13.1-775.1</reference><reference>13.1-936.1</reference><reference>17.1-275</reference><reference>55.1-655</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="55.1">Property and Conveyances</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Real Estate Settlements and Recordation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="6">Recordation of Documents</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="7">Uniform Federal Lien Registration Act</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Notices of <span class="dictionary">liens</span>, certificates, and other notices affecting federal tax <span class="dictionary">liens</span> or other federal <span class="dictionary">liens</span> shall be filed in accordance with this article. <a id="paragraph-235332" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/55.1-653/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Notices of <span class="dictionary">liens</span> upon real property for obligations payable to the United States and certificates and notices affecting the <span class="dictionary">liens</span>, including certificates of <span class="dictionary">redemption</span>, shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> of the county or city in which the real property subject to the <span class="dictionary">lien</span> is situated. <a id="paragraph-235333" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/55.1-653/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> Notices of <span class="dictionary">liens</span> upon personal property, whether tangible or intangible, for obligations payable to the United States and certificates and notices affecting the <span class="dictionary">liens</span> shall be filed as follows: <a id="paragraph-235334" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/55.1-653/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> If the person against whose interest the <span class="dictionary">lien</span> applies is a corporation or a partnership whose principal executive office is in the Commonwealth, as these entities are defined in the internal revenue <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of the United States, in the office of the clerk of the State Corporation Commission. <a id="paragraph-235335" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/55.1-653/#C1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> In all other cases, in the office of the clerk of the <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> of the county or city (i) where the person against whose interest the <span class="dictionary">lien</span> applies resides or (ii) in the case of a trust or a decedent&#x2019;s estate, having <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> over the qualification of the trustee or probate of the will, at the time of filing of the notice of <span class="dictionary">lien</span>. <a id="paragraph-235336" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/55.1-653/#C2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1970, c. 76, &#xA7; 55-142.1; 1986, c. 299; 1988, cc. 113, 388; 2019, c. 712.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
