Bill Text: VA HB1920 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Recording assignment of deed of trust; prerequisite to sale.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-08 - House: Left in Courts of Justice [HB1920 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2011-HB1920-Introduced.html
11100648D Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: 1. That § 55-66.01 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows: § 55-66.01. Protection of assignees or transferees of debts secured by real estate; form of certificate of transfer. A. Whenever a debt or other obligation secured by a deed of trust, mortgage or vendor's lien on real estate has been assigned, the assignor or the assignee, at its option, may cause the instrument of assignment to be recorded in the clerk's office of the circuit court where such deed of trust, mortgage or vendor's lien is recorded provided such instrument is otherwise in recordable form, or may cause a certificate of transfer signed by the assignor to be recorded in such clerk's office, and such instrument of assignment or certificate of transfer, upon recordation, shall operate as a notice of such assignment. The instrument of assignment or certificate of transfer shall be indexed in the name of the assignor and in the names of the obligor or maker, and the trustees, as applicable, all of whose names shall be set forth in such instrument or certificate. The certificate of transfer shall conform substantially to the following:
For purposes of this statute, the word "assigned" shall include endorsed, pledged, hypothecated or otherwise transferred. Nothing in this statute shall be deemed to invalidate any other form or notice of assignment that may have been heretofore recorded. Nothing in this statute shall imply that recordation of the instrument of assignment or a certificate of transfer is necessary in order to transfer to an assignee the benefit of the security provided by the deed of trust, mortgage or vendor's lien. B. The trustee, or any substitute trustee, under any deed of trust or mortgage entered into on or after July 1, 2011, shall not proceed with any sale of the property conveyed to him by the deed of trust or mortgage at the request of a person who asserts that he is the holder of the obligation secured thereby unless the land records of the locality in which the property is located contain a duly recorded instrument evidencing the assignment of the secured obligation to such person. |