(a) Initial financing statement or other record; general rule. — Except as otherwise provided in subsection (e), the fee for filing and indexing a record under this part is twenty dollars.

Terms Used In Virginia Code 8.9A-525

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes any of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the United States Virgin Islands. See Virginia Code 1-245

(b) [Repealed.]

(c) Number of names. — The number of names required to be indexed does not affect the amount of the fee in subsection (a).

(d) Response to information request. — The fee for responding to a request for information from the filing office, other than the State Corporation Commission, including for issuing a certificate showing whether there is on file any financing statement naming a particular debtor, is twenty dollars. The fees for responding to requests for information from the State Corporation Commission made pursuant to this title are governed by § 12.1-21.1.

(e) Record of mortgage. — This section does not require a fee with respect to a record of a mortgage which is effective as a financing statement filed as a fixture filing or as a financing statement covering as-extracted collateral or timber to be cut under § 8.9A-502 (c). However, the recording and satisfaction fees that otherwise would be applicable to the record of the mortgage apply.

2000, c. 1007; 2002, c. 71.