{"data":{"id":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-46-9-103a","jurisdiction":"us-wv","citation":"W. Va. Code § 46-9-103a","heading":"\"Production-money crops\"; \"production-money obligation\"; production-money security interest; burden of establishing.","body":"(a) A security interest in crops is a production-money security interest to the extent that the crops are production-money crops.\n(b) If the extent to which a security interest is a production-money security interest depends on the application of a payment to a particular obligation, the payment must be applied:\n(1) In accordance with any reasonable method of application to which the parties agree;\n(2) In the absence of the parties' agreement to a reasonable method, in accordance with any intention of the obligor manifested at or before the time of payment; or\n(3) In the absence of an agreement to a reasonable method and a timely manifestation of the obligor's intention, in the following order:\n(A) To obligations that are not secured; and\n(B) If more than one obligation is secured, to obligations secured by production-money security interests in the order in which those obligations were incurred.\n(c) A production-money security interest does not lose its status as such, even if:\n(1) The production-money crops also secure an obligation that is not a production-money obligation;\n(2) Collateral that is not production-money crops also secures the production-money obligation; or\n(3) The production-money obligation has been renewed, refinanced, or restructured.\n(d) A secured party claiming a production-money security interest has the burden of establishing the extent to which the security interest is a production-money security interest.","path":["CHAPTER 46. UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE.","ARTICLE 9. SECURED TRANSACTIONS; SALES OF ACCOUNTS AND CHATTEL PAPER."],"source_url":"https://code.wvlegislature.gov/46-9-103A/","current_through":"as of 2026-08-03; contains at least the enactments of the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T00:29:53Z","sha256":"1f8f6cdd3c2c88601f6ae8d9d886eef22168380c702be1c6cc898215b0de1824","source_id":"us-wv","stale":true,"prev":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-46-9-103","next":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-46-9-104"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}