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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>83849</law_id><section_number>8.9A-508</section_number><catch_line>Effectiveness of financing statement if new debtor becomes bound by security agreement</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>8.9A-326</reference><reference>8.9A-506</reference><reference>8.9A-507</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="5">Filing</unit><unit label="subpart" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">Filing Office, Contents and Effectiveness of Financing Statement</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="a"><p><span class="prefix-number">a.</span> Financing statement naming original debtor. Except as otherwise provided in this section, a filed financing statement naming an original debtor is effective to perfect a security interest in <span class="dictionary">collateral</span> in which a new debtor has or acquires rights to the extent that the financing statement would have been effective had the original debtor acquired rights in the <span class="dictionary">collateral</span>. <a id="paragraph-300531" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-508/#a"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="b"><p><span class="prefix-number">b.</span> Financing statement becoming seriously misleading. If the difference between the name of the original debtor and that of the new debtor causes a filed financing statement that is effective under subsection (a) to be seriously misleading under &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Effect of errors or omissions" href="/8.9A-506/">8.9A-506</a>: <a id="paragraph-300532" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-508/#b"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="b1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> the financing statement is effective to perfect a security interest in <span class="dictionary">collateral</span> acquired by the new debtor before, and within four months after, the new debtor becomes bound under &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Attachment and enforceability of security interest; proceeds, supporting obligations; formal requisites" href="/8.9A-203/">8.9A-203</a> (d); and <a id="paragraph-300533" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-508/#b1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="b2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> the financing statement is not effective to perfect a security interest in <span class="dictionary">collateral</span> acquired by the new debtor more than four months after the new debtor becomes bound under &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Attachment and enforceability of security interest; proceeds, supporting obligations; formal requisites" href="/8.9A-203/">8.9A-203</a> (d) unless an initial financing statement providing the name of the new debtor is filed before the expiration of that time. <a id="paragraph-300534" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-508/#b2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="c"><p><span class="prefix-number">c.</span> When section not applicable. This section does not apply to <span class="dictionary">collateral</span> as to which a filed financing statement remains effective against the new debtor under &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Effect of certain events on effectiveness of financing statement" href="/8.9A-507/">8.9A-507</a> (a). <a id="paragraph-300535" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-508/#c"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2000, c. 1007.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
