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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>56551</law_id><section_number>8.9A-525</section_number><catch_line>Fees</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>12.1-21.1</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="2">Duties and Operation of Filing Office</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="a"><p><span class="prefix-number">a.</span> Initial financing statement or other record; general rule. &#x2014; Except as otherwise provided in subsection (e), the fee for filing and indexing a record under this part is twenty dollars. <a id="paragraph-206971" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-525/#a"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="b"><p><span class="prefix-number">b.</span> [Repealed.] <a id="paragraph-206972" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-525/#b"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="c"><p><span class="prefix-number">c.</span> Number of names. &#x2014; The number of names required to be indexed does not affect the amount of the fee in subsection (a). <a id="paragraph-206973" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-525/#c"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="d"><p><span class="prefix-number">d.</span> Response to information request. &#x2014; The fee for responding to a request for information from the filing office, other than the State Corporation Commission, including for issuing a certificate showing whether there is on file any financing statement naming a particular debtor, is twenty dollars. The fees for responding to requests for information from the State Corporation Commission made pursuant to this title are governed by &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Fees to be charged by clerk for certain information and certificates" href="/12.1-21.1/">12.1-21.1</a>. <a id="paragraph-206974" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-525/#d"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="e"><p><span class="prefix-number">e.</span> Record of mortgage. &#x2014; This section does not require a fee with respect to a record of a mortgage which is effective as a financing statement filed as a fixture filing or as a financing statement covering as-extracted <span class="dictionary">collateral</span> or timber to be cut under &#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> (c). However, the recording and satisfaction fees that otherwise would be applicable to the record of the mortgage apply. <a id="paragraph-206975" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-525/#e"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2000, c. 1007; 2002, c. 71.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
