                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

SECURITY INTEREST MAY BE FILED WITHIN THIRTY DAYS AFTER PURCHASE (§ 46.2-639)

If application for the registration or recordation of a security interest to be
placed on a motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer is filed with the Department,
it shall be deemed perfected as of the date of filing, and, if the date of
filing is within thirty days from the date of an applicant&#8217;s purchase of
the motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer, it shall be as valid as to all
persons, including the Commonwealth, as if that registration had been
accomplished on the day the security interest was acquired.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 46-72; 1958, c. 541, § 46.1-72; 1966, c. 558; 1972, cc.
300, 408; 1989, c. 727; 2000, c. 71.