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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>67737</law_id><section_number>8.9A-805</section_number><catch_line>Effectiveness of action taken before July 1, 2013</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>8.9A-803</reference><reference>8.9A-807</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="8">Transition Provisions for 2013 Amendments</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="a"><p><span class="prefix-number">a.</span> Pre-effective-date filing effective. The filing of a financing statement before July 1, 2013, is effective to perfect a security interest to the extent the filing would satisfy the applicable requirements for perfection under this title, as amended by the 2013 amendments. <a id="paragraph-245361" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-805/#a"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="b"><p><span class="prefix-number">b.</span> When pre-effective-date filing becomes ineffective. The 2013 amendments do not render ineffective an effective financing statement that, before July 1, 2013, is filed and satisfies the applicable requirements for perfection under the <span class="dictionary">law</span> of the <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> governing perfection as provided in this title, as it existed before the 2013 amendments. However, except as otherwise provided in subsections (c) and (d) and &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="When initial financing statement suffices to continue effectiveness of financing statement" href="/8.9A-806/">8.9A-806</a>, the financing statement ceases to be effective: <a id="paragraph-245362" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-805/#b"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="b1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> if the financing statement is filed in the Commonwealth, at the time the financing statement would have ceased to be effective had the 2013 amendments not taken effect; or <a id="paragraph-245363" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-805/#b1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="b2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> if the financing statement is filed in another <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span>, at the earlier of: <a id="paragraph-245364" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-805/#b2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> the time the financing statement would have ceased to be effective under the <span class="dictionary">law</span> of that <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span>; or <a id="paragraph-245365" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-805/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> June 30, 2018. <a id="paragraph-245366" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-805/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="c"><p><span class="prefix-number">c.</span> Continuation statement. The filing of a continuation statement on or after July 1, 2013, does not continue the effectiveness of the financing statement filed before July 1, 2013. However, upon the timely filing of a continuation statement on or after July 1, 2013, and in accordance with the <span class="dictionary">law</span> of the <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> governing perfection as provided in this title, as amended by the 2013 amendments, the effectiveness of a financing statement filed in the same office in that <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> before July 1, 2013, continues for the period provided by the <span class="dictionary">law</span> of that <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span>. <a id="paragraph-245367" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-805/#c"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="d"><p><span class="prefix-number">d.</span> Application of subsection (b)(2)(B) to transmitting utility financing statement. Subsection (b)(2)(B) applies to a financing statement that, before July 1, 2013, is filed against a transmitting utility and satisfies the applicable requirements for perfection under the <span class="dictionary">law</span> of the <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> governing perfection as provided in this title, as it existed before the 2013 amendments, only to the extent that this title, as amended by the 2013 amendments, provides that the <span class="dictionary">law</span> of a <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> other than the <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> in which the financing statement is filed governs perfection of a security interest in <span class="dictionary">collateral</span> covered by the financing statement. <a id="paragraph-245368" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-805/#d"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="e"><p><span class="prefix-number">e.</span> Application of Part 5 (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Filing office" href="/8.9A-501/">8.9A-501</a> et seq.). A financing statement that includes a financing statement filed before July 1, 2013, and a continuation statement filed on or after July 1, 2013, is effective only to the extent that it satisfies the requirements of Part 5, as amended by the 2013 amendments, for an initial financing statement. A financing statement that indicates that the debtor is a decedent&#x2019;s estate indicates that the <span class="dictionary">collateral</span> is being administered by a personal representative within the meaning of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Name of debtor and secured party" href="/8.9A-503/">8.9A-503</a>(a)(2), as amended by the 2013 amendments. A financing statement that indicates that the debtor is a trust or is a trustee acting with respect to a property held in trust indicates that the <span class="dictionary">collateral</span> is held in a trust within the meaning of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Name of debtor and secured party" href="/8.9A-503/">8.9A-503</a>(a)(3), as amended by the 2013 amendments. <a id="paragraph-245369" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-805/#e"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2012, c. 155.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
