West Virginia Code § 38-1-14

Future advances secured by credit line deed of trust; definitions; notice
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requirements and form; priority over other liens; release.
(a) Definitions: For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply:
(1) "Credit line deed of trust" is a deed of trust securing any obligation arising out of a loan
agreement, a promissory note, a sales contract, a performance contract, or any other
agreement or writing, under the terms of which the indebtedness or other obligation created
may increase and/or decrease from time to time.
(2) "Future advance" means any form of increase in the indebteduness or obligation owed to
the secured party under the terms of the credit line deed of trust, including, but not limited
to, an increase arising from, but not limited to, an application for the same by the obligor;
the advancement of loan proceeds pursuant to the terms of the credit line deed of trust or
other agreement; the payment of any taxes, insurance premiums, interest, or other
obligations pursuant to the terms of the credit line deed of trust or other agreement; or the
occurrence of any condition, event or circumstancel set forth in the credit line deed of trust.
(3) "Obligatory advance" means any advance which, under the terms of the credit line deed
of trust or other agreement, the secured piarty has legally obligated itself to make in the
absence of a default, breach, or othegr such event. Obligatory advances include, but are not
limited to, advances which the secured party has agreed to make as a term or condition of
the credit line deed of trust or other related agreement; obligations arising out of the
occurrence of a condition, event or circumstance contemplated by the agreement;
obligations arising on a specified date or time; or advances made upon application therefor
by the grantor under the credit line deed of trust or by another obligor whose indebtedness
is secured by the deed of trust.
(b) A credit line deed of trust shall comply with all the provisions of this article and shall
either (i) have clearly entitled at the beginning thereof either in capital letters or in language
undWerscored, the words, "A CREDIT LINE DEED OF TRUST", or (ii) state conspicuously
either immediately above or beneath the caption at the top of the first page of the credit line
deed of trust the words, "This instrument secures an obligation that may increase and
decrease from time to time."
A credit line deed of trust shall be, from the time it is duly recorded as required by law,
security for all indebtedness or other obligations secured thereby at the time of recording
and for all future advances secured thereby in an aggregate principal amount outstanding at
any time not to exceed the maximum amount stated in the credit line deed of trust, without
regard to whether the future advances are contracted for at the time of recordation of the
credit line deed of trust or whether the secured party under the credit line deed of trust
readvances principal sums repaid. The credit line deed of trust shall also be security for
interest on the principal sums and for taxes, insurance premiums and other obligations,
including interest thereon, undertaken by the secured party in the credit line deed of trust or
in the related loan agreement, note, contract, or other agreement or evidences of
indebtedness or obligations secured thereby. The interest, taxes, insurance premiums and
other obligations when added to the total principal amount of the obligations outstanding at
any time may increase the amount secured by the credit line deed of trust above the stated
maximum amount.
(c) A credit line deed of trust, in addition to other provisions of this code, shall conform with
the following: e
(1) The credit line deed of trust shall contain specific provisions permitting or requiring
future advances and stating whether the future advances are intended to be obligatory or
nonobligatory; u
(2) At no time may the unpaid principal balance of the obligation or indebtedness secured by
the credit line deed of trust exceed the maximum amount stated therein, except as
specifically provided for in subsection (b) of this sectioan; and
(3) The original credit line deed of trust must be exlecuted and recorded after June 6, 1984.
(d) Except as otherwise provided herein, a credit line deed of trust, to the extent of the
principal amount of the loan indebtednessi or obligation secured thereby, interest thereon,
taxes, insurance premiums and other obligations, including interest thereon, secured
thereby, has priority over all other deeds of trust, liens and encumbrances of every nature,
however created or arising, to the same extent and for the same amount as if all the amounts
were advanced on the date and at the time the credit line deed of trust is recorded.
(e) Any mechanic's lien, abstract of judgment, notice of lis pendens, other deed of trust or
other lien of encumbrance, which affects the property encumbered by the credit line deed of
trust and which is du ly recorded and perfected as required by law after the recording of the
credit line deeVd of trust, shall have priority over any advances secured by the credit line
deed of trust that are not obligatory and that are made by the secured party under the credit
line deed of trust after receipt by the secured party, at the address provided for the purpose
of notification in the credit line deed of trust, of written notice of such mechanic's lien,
judgment lien, notice of lis pendens, other deed of trust or other lien or encumbrance.
However, any obligatory advances made by the secured party that are secured by the credit
line deed of trust or any other related agreement, and any taxes, insurance premiums and
obligations which the secured party has agreed to pay, or which under the credit line deed of
trust or otherwise the secured party has the right to pay in connection with such credit line
deed of trust, shall continue to have the priority created under subsection (b) of this section
over a mechanic's lien, judgment lien, notice of lis pendens, deed of trust or other lien or
encumbrance.
(f) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, the secured party under a credit line
deed of trust subject to this section shall be obligated to release the credit line deed of trust
at such time as all indebtedness or other obligations secured thereby have been paid in full
or otherwise satisfied and the secured party has been duly released from any further
obligation to make future advances under any note or agreement secured by the credit line
deed of trust. This release shall become effective upon the recording of the release and the
secured party shall be released and discharged from any further obligation.

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