West Virginia Code § 46-9-705

Effectiveness of action taken before effective date
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(a) Pre-effective-date action; two-year perfection period unless reperfected. If action, other
than the filing of a financing statement, is taken before this article takes effect and the
action would have resulted in priority of a security interest over the rights oef a person that
becomes a lien creditor had the security interest become enforceable before this article
takes effect, the action is effective to perfect a security interest that attraches under this
article within two years after this article takes effect. An attached security interest becomes
unperfected two years after this article takes effect unless the security interest becomes a
perfected security interest under this article before the expiration of that period.
(b) Pre-effective-date filing. The filing of a financing statement before this article takes effect
is effective to perfect a security interest to the extent the filing would satisfy the applicable
requirements for perfection under this article.
(c) Pre-effective-date filing in jurisdiction formserly governing perfection. This article does
not render ineffective an effective financing statement that, before this article takes effect, is
filed and satisfies the applicable requirements for perfection under the law of the jurisdiction
governing perfection as provided in gformer section 9-103. However, except as otherwise
provided in subsections (d) and (e) of this section and section 9-706, the financing statement
ceases to be effective at the eaerlier of:
(1) The time the financing statement would have ceased to be effective under the law of the
jurisdiction in which it is filed; or
(2) June 30, 2006.
(d) Continuation statement. The filing of a continuation statement after this article takes
effect does not continue the effectiveness of the financing statement filed before this article
takes effect. However, upon the timely filing of a continuation statement after this article
takes effect and in accordance with the law of the jurisdiction governing perfection as
provided in part 3, the effectiveness of a financing statement filed in the same office in that
jurisdiction before this article takes effect continues for the period provided by the law of
that jurisdiction.
(e) Application of subsection (c)(2) to transmitting utility financing statement. Subsection
(c)(2) of this section applies to a financing statement that, before this article takes effect, is
filed against a transmitting utility and satisfies the applicable requirements for perfection
under the law of the jurisdiction governing perfection as provided in former section 9-103
only to the extent that part 3 provides that the law of a jurisdiction other than the
jurisdiction in which the financing statement is filed governs perfection of a security interest
in collateral covered by the financing statement.
(f) Application of part 5. A financing statement that includes a financing statement filed
before this article takes effect and a continuation statement filed after this article takes
effect is effective only to the extent that it satisfies the requirements of part 5 for an initial
financing statement.

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