West Virginia Code § 46-9-502

Contents of financing statement; record of mortgage as financing
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statement; time of filing financing statement.
(a) Sufficiency of financing statement. -- Subject to subsection (b), a financing statement is
sufficient only if it:
(1) Provides the name of the debtor;
(2) Provides the name of the secured party or a representative of the secured party; and
(3) Indicates the collateral covered by the financing statement.
(b) Real-property-related financing statements. -- Except as otherwise provided in section
9-501(b), to be sufficient, a financing statement that covers as-extracted collateral or timber
to be cut, or which is filed as a fixture filing and coversa goods that are or are to become
fixtures, must satisfy subsection (a) of this section and also:
(1) Indicate that it covers this type of collateral;
(2) Indicate that it is to be filed for record in the real property records;
(3) Provide a description of the real property to which the collateral is related sufficient to
give constructive notice of a mortgage under the law of this state if the description were
contained in a record of the meortgage of the real property; and
(4) If the debtor does noLt have an interest of record in the real property, provide the name of
a record owner.
(c) Record of mortgage as financing statement. -- A record of a mortgage is effective, from
the date of recording, as a financing statement filed as a fixture filing or as a financing
statement covering as-extracted collateral or timber to be cut only if:
(1) The record indicates the goods or accounts that it covers;
(2) The goods are or are to become fixtures relate to the real property described in the
record or the collateral is related to the real property described in the record and is as-
extracted collateral or timber to be cut;
(3) The record satisfies the requirements for a financing statement in this section: Provided,
That
(A) The record need not indicate that it is to be filed in the real property records; and
(B) The record sufficiently provides the name of a debtor who is an individual if it provides
the individual name of the debtor or the surname and first personal name of the debtor, even
if the debtor is an individual to whom section 9-503(a)(4) applies; and
(4) The record is duly recorded.
(d) Filing before security agreement or attachment. -- A financing statement may be filed
before a security agreement is made or a security interest otherwise attaches.

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