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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>82644</law_id><section_number>6.2-420</section_number><catch_line>Prepayment penalty not to be collected in certain circumstances</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>6.2-405</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="6.2">Financial Institutions and Services</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="I">General Provisions</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="4">Certain Lending Practices</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2">Loans Secured by Lien on Real Estate</unit></structure><text>
						<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></text><history>1987, c. 622, &#xA7; 6.1-330.87; 2010, c. 794.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
