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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>87008</law_id><section_number>8.9A-512</section_number><catch_line>Amendment of financing statement</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-516</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> Amendment of information in financing statement. Subject to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Persons entitled to file a record" href="/8.9A-509/">8.9A-509</a>, a person may add or delete <span class="dictionary">collateral</span> covered by, continue or terminate the effectiveness of, or, subject to subsection (e), otherwise <span class="dictionary">amend</span> the information provided in, a financing statement by filing an amendment that: <a id="paragraph-311510" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-512/#a"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="a1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> identifies, by its file number, the initial financing statement to which the amendment relates; and <a id="paragraph-311511" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-512/#a1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="a2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> if the amendment relates to an initial financing statement filed or recorded in a filing office described in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Filing office" href="/8.9A-501/">8.9A-501</a> (a) (1), provides the information specified in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Contents of financing statement; record of mortgage as financing statement; time of filing financing statement" href="/8.9A-502/">8.9A-502</a> (b). <a id="paragraph-311512" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-512/#a2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="b"><p><span class="prefix-number">b.</span> Period of effectiveness not affected. Except as otherwise provided in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Duration and effectiveness of financing statement; effect of lapsed financing statement" href="/8.9A-515/">8.9A-515</a>, the filing of an amendment does not extend the period of effectiveness of the financing statement. <a id="paragraph-311513" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-512/#b"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="c"><p><span class="prefix-number">c.</span> Effectiveness of amendment adding <span class="dictionary">collateral</span>. A financing statement that is amended by an amendment that adds <span class="dictionary">collateral</span> is effective as to the added <span class="dictionary">collateral</span> only from the date of the filing of the amendment. <a id="paragraph-311514" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-512/#c"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="d"><p><span class="prefix-number">d.</span> Effectiveness of amendment adding debtor. A financing statement that is amended by an amendment that adds a debtor is effective as to the added debtor only from the date of the filing of the amendment. <a id="paragraph-311515" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-512/#d"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="e"><p><span class="prefix-number">e.</span> Certain amendments ineffective. An amendment is ineffective to the extent it: <a id="paragraph-311516" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-512/#e"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="e1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> purports to delete all debtors and fails to provide the name of a debtor to be covered by the financing statement; or <a id="paragraph-311517" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-512/#e1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="e2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> purports to delete all secured parties of record and fails to provide the name of a new secured <span class="dictionary">party</span> of record. <a id="paragraph-311518" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-512/#e2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1964, c. 219, &#xA7; 8.9-402; 1966, c. 649; 1973, c. 509; 1976, c. 536; 1977, c. 539; 1978, cc. 284, 285; 1982, c. 652; 1999, c. 96; 2000, c. 1007.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
