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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>65185</law_id><section_number>8.9A-513</section_number><catch_line>Termination statement</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>17.1-275</reference><reference>55.1-655</reference><reference>8.9A-315</reference><reference>8.9A-509</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> Consumer goods. A secured <span class="dictionary">party</span> shall cause the secured <span class="dictionary">party</span> of record for a financing statement to file a termination statement for the financing statement if the financing statement covers consumer goods and: <a id="paragraph-237092" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-513/#a"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="a1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> there is no obligation secured by the <span class="dictionary">collateral</span> covered by the financing statement and no commitment to make an advance, incur an obligation, or otherwise give value; or <a id="paragraph-237093" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-513/#a1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="a2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> the debtor did not authorize the filing of the initial financing statement. <a id="paragraph-237094" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-513/#a2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="b"><p><span class="prefix-number">b.</span> Time for compliance with subsection (a). To comply with subsection (a), a secured <span class="dictionary">party</span> shall cause the secured <span class="dictionary">party</span> of record to file the termination statement: <a id="paragraph-237095" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-513/#b"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="b1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> within one month after there is no obligation secured by the <span class="dictionary">collateral</span> covered by the financing statement and no commitment to make an advance, incur an obligation, or otherwise give value; or <a id="paragraph-237096" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-513/#b1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="b2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> if earlier, within twenty days after the secured <span class="dictionary">party</span> receives a signed demand from a debtor. <a id="paragraph-237097" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-513/#b2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="c"><p><span class="prefix-number">c.</span> Other <span class="dictionary">collateral</span>. In cases not governed by subsection (a), within twenty days after a secured <span class="dictionary">party</span> receives a signed demand from a debtor, the secured <span class="dictionary">party</span> shall cause the secured <span class="dictionary">party</span> of record for a financing statement to send to the debtor a termination statement for the financing statement or file the termination statement in the filing office if: <a id="paragraph-237098" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-513/#c"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="c1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> except in the case of a financing statement covering accounts or chattel paper that has been sold or goods that are the subject of a consignment, there is no obligation secured by the <span class="dictionary">collateral</span> covered by the financing statement and no commitment to make an advance, incur an obligation, or otherwise give value; <a id="paragraph-237099" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-513/#c1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="c2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> the financing statement covers accounts or chattel paper that has been sold but as to which the account debtor or other person obligated has discharged its obligation; <a id="paragraph-237100" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-513/#c2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="c3" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> the financing statement covers goods that were the subject of a consignment to the debtor but are not in the debtor&#x2019;s <span class="dictionary">possession</span>; or <a id="paragraph-237101" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-513/#c3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="c4" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> the debtor did not authorize the filing of the initial financing statement. <a id="paragraph-237102" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-513/#c4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="d"><p><span class="prefix-number">d.</span> Effect of filing termination statement. Except as otherwise provided in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Effectiveness of filed record" href="/8.9A-510/">8.9A-510</a>, upon the filing of a termination statement with the filing office, the financing statement to which the termination statement relates ceases to be effective. Except as otherwise provided in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Effectiveness of filed record" href="/8.9A-510/">8.9A-510</a>, for purposes of &#xA7;&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Numbering, maintaining, and indexing records; communicating information provided in records" href="/8.9A-519/">8.9A-519</a> (g), <a class="law" title="Maintenance and destruction of records" href="/8.9A-522/">8.9A-522</a> (a), and <a class="law" title="Information from filing office; sale or license of records" href="/8.9A-523/">8.9A-523</a> (c), the filing with the filing office of a termination statement relating to a financing statement that indicates that the debtor is a transmitting utility also causes the effectiveness of the financing statement to lapse. <a id="paragraph-237103" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-513/#d"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1964, c. 219, &#xA7; 8.9-404; 1973, c. 509; 1975, c. 225; 1977, c. 539; 1982, c. 652; 1984, cc. 40, 771; 1988, c. 804; 1990, c. 412; 2000, c. 1007; 2024, c. 652.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
