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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>84738</law_id><section_number>8.9A-308</section_number><catch_line>When security interest or agricultural lien is perfected; continuity of perfection</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>8.9A-109</reference><reference>8.9A-306</reference><reference>8.9A-310</reference><reference>8.9A-312</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="8.9A">Commercial Code &#x2014; Secured Transactions</unit><unit label="part" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="3">Perfection and Priority</unit><unit label="subpart" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="2">Perfection</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="a"><p><span class="prefix-number">a.</span> Perfection of security interest. Except as otherwise provided in this section and &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Security interest perfected upon attachment" href="/8.9A-309/">8.9A-309</a>, a security interest is perfected if it has attached and all of the applicable requirements for perfection in &#xA7;&#xA7; <a class="law" title="When filing required to perfect security interest or agricultural lien; security interests and agricultural liens to which filing provisions do not apply" href="/8.9A-310/">8.9A-310</a> through <a class="law" title="Effect of change in governing law" href="/8.9A-316/">8.9A-316</a> have been satisfied. A security interest is perfected when it attaches if the applicable requirements are satisfied before the security interest attaches. <a id="paragraph-303662" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-308/#a"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="b"><p><span class="prefix-number">b.</span> Perfection of agricultural <span class="dictionary">lien</span>. An agricultural <span class="dictionary">lien</span> is perfected if it has become effective and all of the applicable requirements for perfection in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="When filing required to perfect security interest or agricultural lien; security interests and agricultural liens to which filing provisions do not apply" href="/8.9A-310/">8.9A-310</a> have been satisfied. An agricultural <span class="dictionary">lien</span> is perfected when it becomes effective if the applicable requirements are satisfied before the agricultural <span class="dictionary">lien</span> becomes effective. <a id="paragraph-303663" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-308/#b"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="c"><p><span class="prefix-number">c.</span> Continuous perfection; perfection by different methods. A security interest or agricultural <span class="dictionary">lien</span> is perfected continuously if it is originally perfected by one method under this title and is later perfected by another method under this title, without an intermediate period when it was unperfected. <a id="paragraph-303664" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-308/#c"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="d"><p><span class="prefix-number">d.</span> Supporting obligation. Perfection of a security interest in <span class="dictionary">collateral</span> also perfects a security interest in a supporting obligation for the <span class="dictionary">collateral</span>. <a id="paragraph-303665" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-308/#d"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="e"><p><span class="prefix-number">e.</span> <span class="dictionary">Lien</span> securing right to payment. Perfection of a security interest in a right to payment or performance also perfects a security interest in a security interest, mortgage, or other <span class="dictionary">lien</span> on personal or real property securing the right. <a id="paragraph-303666" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-308/#e"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="f"><p><span class="prefix-number">f.</span> Security entitlement carried in securities account. Perfection of a security interest in a securities account also perfects a security interest in the security entitlements carried in the securities account. <a id="paragraph-303667" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-308/#f"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="g"><p><span class="prefix-number">g.</span> Commodity <span class="dictionary">contract</span> carried in commodity account. Perfection of a security interest in a commodity account also perfects a security interest in the commodity <span class="dictionary">contracts</span> carried in the commodity account. <a id="paragraph-303668" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-308/#g"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1964, c. 219, &#xA7; 8.9-302; 1973, c. 509; 1984, c. 613; 1996, c. 216, &#xA7; 8.9-115; 1997, c. 343; 2000, c. 1007.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
