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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>62923</law_id><section_number>8.9A-326</section_number><catch_line>Priority of security interests created by new debtor</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><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="3">Priority</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="a"><p><span class="prefix-number">a.</span> <span class="dictionary">Subordination</span> of security interest created by new debtor. Subject to subsection (b), a security interest that is created by a new debtor in <span class="dictionary">collateral</span> in which the new debtor has or acquires rights and is perfected by a filed financing statement that would be ineffective to perfect the security interest but for the application of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Effect of change in governing law" href="/8.9A-316/">8.9A-316</a>(i)(1) or <a class="law" title="Effectiveness of financing statement if new debtor becomes bound by security agreement" href="/8.9A-508/">8.9A-508</a> is subordinate to a security interest in the same <span class="dictionary">collateral</span> which is perfected other than by such a filed financing statement. <a id="paragraph-229517" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-326/#a"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="b"><p><span class="prefix-number">b.</span> Priority under other provisions; multiple original debtors. The other provisions of this part determine the priority among conflicting security interests in the same <span class="dictionary">collateral</span> perfected by filed financing statements described in subsection (a). However, if the security agreements to which a new debtor became bound as debtor were not entered into by the same original debtor, the conflicting security interests rank according to priority in time of the new debtor&#x2019;s having become bound. <a id="paragraph-229518" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-326/#b"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2000, c. 1007; 2012, c. 155.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
