                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

FILING OFFICE (§ 8.9A-501)

a. Filing offices. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), if the local
law of the Commonwealth governs perfection of a security interest or
agricultural lien, the office in which to file a financing statement to perfect
the security interest or agricultural lien is:

   1. the office designated for the filing or recording of a record of a mortgage
   on the related real property, if:

A. the collateral is as-extracted collateral or timber to be cut; or

B. the financing statement is filed as a fixture filing and the collateral is
goods that are or are to become fixtures; or

   2. the office of the State Corporation Commission or any office duly
   authorized by it, in all other cases, including a case in which the collateral
   is goods that are or are to become fixtures and the financing statement is not
   filed as a fixture filing.

b. Filing office for transmitting utilities. The office in which to file a
financing statement to perfect a security interest in collateral, including
fixtures, of a transmitting utility is the office of the State Corporation
Commission. The financing statement also constitutes a fixture filing as to the
collateral indicated in the financing statement which is or is to become
fixtures.

HISTORY: 1996, c. 216, § 8.9-401; 2000, c. 1007.