5 Va. Admin. Code § 5-30-20
The following words and terms when used in this chapter shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Amendment" means a UCC record that amends the information contained in a financing statement. Amendments also include (i) assignments and (ii) continuation and termination statements.
"Assignment" means an amendment that assigns all or a part of a secured party's power to authorize an amendment to a financing statement.
"Continuation statement" shall have the meaning prescribed by § 8.9A-102A(a)(27) of the Code of Virginia.
"File number" shall have the meaning prescribed by § 8.9A-102A(a)(36) of the Code of Virginia.
"Filing office" means the Clerk's Office of the State Corporation Commission.
"Filing officer" means the Clerk of the State Corporation Commission.
"Filing officer statement" means a statement entered into the UCC information management system to explain an action by the filing office.
"Financing statement" shall have the meaning prescribed by § 8.9A-102A(a)(39) of the Code of Virginia.
"Individual" means a natural person, living or deceased.
"Information statement" means a UCC record that indicates a financing statement is inaccurate or wrongfully filed.
"Initial financing statement" means a UCC record containing the information required to be in an initial financing statement and that causes the filing office to establish the initial record of existence of a financing statement.
"Organization" means a legal person that is not an individual.
"Personal identifiable information" shall have the meaning prescribed by § 12.1-19B of the Code of Virginia.
"Remitter" means a person who delivers a UCC record to the filing office for filing, whether the person is a filer or an agent of a filer responsible for delivering the UCC record for filing. "Remitter" does not include a person responsible merely for the delivery of the UCC record to the filing office, such as the postal service or a courier service but does include a service provider who acts as a filer's representative in the filing process.
"Secured party of record" shall have the meaning prescribed by § 8.9-511A of the Code of Virginia.
"Termination statement" shall have the meaning prescribed by § 8.9A-102A(a)(80) of the Code of Virginia.
"Through date" means the most recent date that all submissions for a specified day have been indexed in the UCC information management system.
"UCC" means the Uniform Commercial Code - Secured Transactions (§ 8.9-101A et seq. of the Code of Virginia).
"UCC information management system" means the information management system used by the filing office to store, index, and retrieve information relating to financing statements.
"UCC record" means an initial financing statement, an amendment, and an information or a filing officer statement, and shall not be deemed to refer exclusively to paper or paper-based writings.
5 Va. Admin. Code § 5-30-20
Statutory Authority: §§ 8.9-526A and 12.1-13 of the Code of Virginia.