Filing Office, Contents and Effectiveness of Financing Statement

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This is Subpart 1 of the Code of Virginia, titled “Filing Office, Contents and Effectiveness of Financing Statement.” It is part of Part 5 “Filing”, which is part of Title 8.9A “Commercial Code — Secured Transactions”. It contains 18 laws.

It’s comprised of the following 18 sections.

§ 8.9A-501	Filing office
§ 8.9A-502	Contents of financing statement; record of mortgage as financing statement; time of filing financing statement
§ 8.9A-503	Name of debtor and secured party
§ 8.9A-504	Indication of collateral
§ 8.9A-505	Filing and compliance with other statutes and treaties for consignments, leases, other bailments, and other transactions
§ 8.9A-506	Effect of errors or omissions
§ 8.9A-507	Effect of certain events on effectiveness of financing statement
§ 8.9A-508	Effectiveness of financing statement if new debtor becomes bound by security agreement
§ 8.9A-509	Persons entitled to file a record
§ 8.9A-510	Effectiveness of filed record
§ 8.9A-511	Secured party of record
§ 8.9A-512	Amendment of financing statement
§ 8.9A-513	Termination statement
§ 8.9A-514	Assignment of powers of secured party of record
§ 8.9A-515	Duration and effectiveness of financing statement; effect of lapsed financing statement
§ 8.9A-516	What constitutes filing; effectiveness of filing
§ 8.9A-517	Effect of indexing errors
§ 8.9A-518	Claim concerning inaccurate or wrongfully filed record