{"formats":[{"name":"JSON","format":"json","url":"\/downloads\/2026\/code-json\/8.8A-601.json"},{"name":"Plain Text","format":"text","url":"\/downloads\/2026\/code-text\/8.8A-601.txt"},{"name":"XML","format":"xml","url":"\/downloads\/2026\/code-xml\/8.8A-601.xml"},{"name":"HTML","format":"html","url":"\/downloads\/2026\/code-html\/8.8A-601.html"}],"law_id":378353,"edition_id":2,"section_id":378353,"structure_id":53763,"section_number":"8.8A-601","catch_line":"Savings clause","history":"1996, c. 216.","full_text":"a\n\nThis title does not affect an action or proceeding commenced before January 1, 1997.\n\nb\n\nIf a security interest in a security is perfected on January 1, 1997, and the action by which the security interest was perfected would suffice to perfect a security interest under this title, no further action is required to continue perfection.\n\t\t\tIf a security interest in a security is perfected on January 1, 1997, but the action by which the security interest was perfected would not suffice to perfect a security interest under this title, the security interest remains perfected for a period of four months, until May 1, 1997, and continues perfected thereafter if appropriate action to perfect under this title is taken within that period.\n\n\t\t\tIf a security interest is perfected on January 1, 1997, and the security interest can be perfected by filing under this title, a financing statement signed by the secured party instead of the debtor may be filed within that period to continue perfection or thereafter to perfect.\n\n","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":1411748,"text":"This title does not affect an action or proceeding commenced before January 1, 1997.","type":"section","prefixes":["a"],"prefix":"a","entire_prefix":"a","prefix_anchor":"a","level":1,"next_prefix":"b"},"1":{"id":1411749,"text":"If a security interest in a security is perfected on January 1, 1997, and the action by which the security interest was perfected would suffice to perfect a security interest under this title, no further action is required to continue perfection.\n\t\t\tIf a security interest in a security is perfected on January 1, 1997, but the action by which the security interest was perfected would not suffice to perfect a security interest under this title, the security interest remains perfected for a period of four months, until May 1, 1997, and continues perfected thereafter if appropriate action to perfect under this title is taken within that period.\t\t\tIf a security interest is perfected on January 1, 1997, and the security interest can be perfected by filing under this title, a financing statement signed by the secured party instead of the debtor may be filed within that period to continue perfection or thereafter to perfect.","type":"section","prefixes":["b"],"prefix":"b","entire_prefix":"b","prefix_anchor":"b","level":1,"prior_prefix":"a"}},"ancestry":[{"id":53763,"edition_id":2,"name":"Transition Provisions","identifier":"6","label":"part","depth":2,"order_by":6,"parent_id":53757,"metadata":{"child_laws":1,"child_structures":0},"date_created":"2026-08-02 03:21:54","date_modified":"2026-08-02 12:28:36","permalink":{"id":1510829,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":53763,"identifier":"6","token":"8.8A\/6","url":"\/8.8A\/6\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":53757,"edition_id":2,"name":"Commercial Code \u2014 Investment Securities","identifier":"8.8A","label":"title","depth":1,"order_by":28,"parent_id":null,"metadata":{"child_laws":52,"child_structures":6},"date_created":"2026-08-02 03:21:46","date_modified":"2026-08-02 12:28:35","permalink":{"id":1510613,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":53757,"identifier":"8.8A","token":"8.8A","url":"\/8.8A\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}}],"structure_contents":[{"id":378353,"structure_id":53763,"section_number":"8.8A-601","catch_line":"Savings clause","url":"\/8.8A-601\/","token":"8.8A\/6\/8.8A-601","metadata":false}],"metadata":false,"official_url":"https:\/\/law.lis.virginia.gov\/vacode\/8.8A-601\/","history_text":"

This law was first created in 1996. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 216<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1510831,"object_type":"law","relational_id":378353,"identifier":"8.8A-601","token":"8.8A\/6\/8.8A-601","url":"\/8.8A-601\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/8.8A-601\/","token":"8.8A\/6\/8.8A-601","dublin_core":{"Title":"Savings clause","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 8.8A-601","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

a.<\/span> This title does not affect an action or proceeding commenced before January 1, 1997. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

b.<\/span> If a security interest in a security is perfected on January 1, 1997, and the action by which the security interest was perfected would suffice to perfect a security interest under this title, no further action is required to continue perfection.\n\t\t\tIf a security interest in a security is perfected on January 1, 1997, but the action by which the security interest was perfected would not suffice to perfect a security interest under this title, the security interest remains perfected for a period of four months, until May 1, 1997, and continues perfected thereafter if appropriate action to perfect under this title is taken within that period.

\t\t\tIf a security interest is perfected on January 1, 1997, and the security interest can be perfected by filing under this title, a financing statement signed by the secured party<\/span> instead of the debtor may be filed within that period to continue perfection or thereafter to perfect. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nSAVINGS CLAUSE (\u00a7 8.8A-601)\n\na. This title does not affect an action or proceeding commenced before January\n1, 1997.\n\nb. If a security interest in a security is perfected on January 1, 1997, and the\naction by which the security interest was perfected would suffice to perfect a\nsecurity interest under this title, no further action is required to continue\nperfection.\n\t\t\tIf a security interest in a security is perfected on January 1, 1997, but the\naction by which the security interest was perfected would not suffice to perfect\na security interest under this title, the security interest remains perfected\nfor a period of four months, until May 1, 1997, and continues perfected\nthereafter if appropriate action to perfect under this title is taken within\nthat period.\t\t\tIf a security interest is perfected on January 1, 1997, and the\nsecurity interest can be perfected by filing under this title, a financing\nstatement signed by the secured party instead of the debtor may be filed within\nthat period to continue perfection or thereafter to perfect.\n\nHISTORY: 1996, c. 216.","edition":{"id":2,"name":"2026","slug":"2026","date_created":"2026-07-16 18:40:23","date_modified":"2026-08-02 15:14:36","current":1,"order_by":2,"last_import":"2026-08-02 12:37:30"}}