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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>69700</law_id><section_number>8.9A-611</section_number><catch_line>Notification before disposition of collateral</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>8.9A-602</reference><reference>8.9A-624</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="6">Default</unit><unit label="subpart" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">Default and Enforcement of Security Interest</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="a"><p><span class="prefix-number">a.</span> &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Notification date</span>.&#x201D; In this section, &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">notification date</span>&#x201D; means the earlier of the date on which: <a id="paragraph-251961" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-611/#a"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="a1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> a secured <span class="dictionary">party</span> sends to the debtor and any secondary obligor a signed notification of <span class="dictionary">disposition</span>; or <a id="paragraph-251962" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-611/#a1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="a2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> the debtor and any secondary obligor <span class="dictionary">waive</span> the right to notification. <a id="paragraph-251963" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-611/#a2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="b"><p><span class="prefix-number">b.</span> Notification of <span class="dictionary">disposition</span> required. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d), a secured <span class="dictionary">party</span> that disposes of <span class="dictionary">collateral</span> under &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Disposition of collateral after default" href="/8.9A-610/">8.9A-610</a> shall send to the persons specified in subsection (c) a reasonable signed notification of <span class="dictionary">disposition</span>. <a id="paragraph-251964" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-611/#b"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="c"><p><span class="prefix-number">c.</span> Persons to be notified. To comply with subsection (b), the secured <span class="dictionary">party</span> shall send a signed notification of <span class="dictionary">disposition</span> to: <a id="paragraph-251965" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-611/#c"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="c1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> the debtor; <a id="paragraph-251966" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-611/#c1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="c2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> any secondary obligor; and <a id="paragraph-251967" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-611/#c2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="c3" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> if the <span class="dictionary">collateral</span> is other than consumer goods: <a id="paragraph-251968" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-611/#c3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> any other person from which the secured <span class="dictionary">party</span> has received, before the <span class="dictionary">notification date</span>, a signed notification of a claim of an interest in the <span class="dictionary">collateral</span>; <a id="paragraph-251969" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-611/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> any other secured <span class="dictionary">party</span> or lienholder that, ten days before the <span class="dictionary">notification date</span>, held a security interest in or other <span class="dictionary">lien</span> on the <span class="dictionary">collateral</span> perfected by the filing of a financing statement that: <a id="paragraph-251970" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-611/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="i"><p><span class="prefix-number">i.</span> identified the <span class="dictionary">collateral</span>; <a id="paragraph-251971" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-611/#i"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="iii" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">ii.</span> was indexed under the debtor&#x2019;s name as of that date; and <a id="paragraph-251972" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-611/#iii"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="iiii" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">iii.</span> was filed in the office in which to file a financing statement against the debtor covering the <span class="dictionary">collateral</span> as of that date; and <a id="paragraph-251973" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-611/#iiii"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> any other secured <span class="dictionary">party</span> that, ten days before the <span class="dictionary">notification date</span>, held a security interest in the <span class="dictionary">collateral</span> perfected by compliance with a <span class="dictionary">statute</span>, regulation, or treaty described in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Perfection of security interests in property subject to certain statutes, regulations, and treaties" href="/8.9A-311/">8.9A-311</a> (a). <a id="paragraph-251974" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-611/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="d"><p><span class="prefix-number">d.</span> Subsection (b) inapplicable; perishable <span class="dictionary">collateral</span>; recognized market. Subsection (b) does not apply if the <span class="dictionary">collateral</span> is perishable or threatens to decline speedily in value or is of a type customarily sold on a recognized market. <a id="paragraph-251975" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-611/#d"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="e"><p><span class="prefix-number">e.</span> Compliance with subsection (c) (3) (B). A secured <span class="dictionary">party</span> complies with the requirement for notification prescribed by subsection (c) (3) (B) if: <a id="paragraph-251976" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-611/#e"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="e1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> not later than twenty days or earlier than thirty days before the <span class="dictionary">notification date</span>, the secured <span class="dictionary">party</span> requests, in a commercially reasonable manner, information concerning financing statements indexed under the debtor&#x2019;s name in the office indicated in subsection (c) (3) (B); and <a id="paragraph-251977" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-611/#e1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="e2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> before the <span class="dictionary">notification date</span>, the secured <span class="dictionary">party</span>: <a id="paragraph-251978" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-611/#e2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> did not receive a response to the request for information; or <a id="paragraph-251979" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-611/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> received a response to the request for information and sent a signed notification of <span class="dictionary">disposition</span> to each secured <span class="dictionary">party</span> or other lienholder named in that response whose financing statement covered the <span class="dictionary">collateral</span>. <a id="paragraph-251980" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-611/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1964, c. 219, &#xA7; 8.9-504; 1973, c. 509; 2000, c. 1007; 2024, c. 652.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
