Virginia Code 15.2-2413.12: Definitions
As used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning:
Terms Used In Virginia Code 15.2-2413.12
- Activities: means any programs or services provided for (i) the purposes of recruiting businesses to relocate in the business improvement and recruitment district and (ii) conferring specific benefits upon the businesses that are located in the business improvement and recruitment district and to which a fee is charged. See Virginia Code 15.2-2413.12
- Benefited business: includes one or more types of businesses, one or more segments of businesses, or businesses within one or more industries, as set forth in a business improvement and recruitment district plan. See Virginia Code 15.2-2413.12
- Business: means a business of any kind located in a business improvement and recruitment district. See Virginia Code 15.2-2413.12
- Business fee: means any fee charged to a benefited business pursuant to this article. See Virginia Code 15.2-2413.12
- Business improvement and recruitment district: means a district established by a locality under the provisions of this article within a Main Street District. See Virginia Code 15.2-2413.12
- Business improvement and recruitment district plan: means a proposal for a business improvement and recruitment district under the provisions of this article. See Virginia Code 15.2-2413.12
- Business owner: means any person recognized by a locality as the owner of a business subject to a business fee. See Virginia Code 15.2-2413.12
- City: means an independent incorporated community which became a city as provided by law before noon on July 1, 1971, or which has within defined boundaries a population of 5,000 or more and which has become a city as provided by law. See Virginia Code 1-208
- County: means any existing county or such unit hereafter created. See Virginia Code 15.2-102
- Fee: means a fee charged by a locality in accordance with a business improvement and recruitment district plan. See Virginia Code 15.2-2413.12
- Includes: means includes, but not limited to. See Virginia Code 1-218
- Locality: means any county, city, or town in the Commonwealth. See Virginia Code 15.2-2413.12
- Main Street District: means a physical setting that includes a commercial area focusing on economic development through locally owned businesses and structures that would benefit from rehabilitation. See Virginia Code 15.2-2413.12
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- Person: includes any individual, corporation, partnership, association, cooperative, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, government, political subdivision, or any other legal or commercial entity and any successor, representative, agent, agency, or instrumentality thereof. See Virginia Code 1-230
- Personal property: All property that is not real property.
- Town: means any existing town or an incorporated community within one or more counties which became a town before noon, July one, nineteen hundred seventy-one, as provided by law or which has within defined boundaries a population of 1,000 or more and which has become a town as provided by law. See Virginia Code 15.2-102
“Activities” means any programs or services provided for (i) the purposes of recruiting businesses to relocate in the business improvement and recruitment district and (ii) conferring specific benefits upon the businesses that are located in the business improvement and recruitment district and to which a fee is charged.
“Benefited business” means a business located within a business improvement and recruitment district that benefits, directly or indirectly, by business improvement and recruitment district activities provided by such business improvement and recruitment district. “Benefited business” includes one or more types of businesses, one or more segments of businesses, or businesses within one or more industries, as set forth in a business improvement and recruitment district plan.
“Benefit zone” means an apportioned area designated within a business improvement and recruitment district in which businesses pay a fee based upon the degree of benefit derived from activities to be provided.
“Business” means a business of any kind located in a business improvement and recruitment district.
“Business fee” means any fee charged to a benefited business pursuant to this article.
“Business improvement and recruitment district” means a district established by a locality under the provisions of this article within a Main Street District.
“Business improvement and recruitment district plan” means a proposal for a business improvement and recruitment district under the provisions of this article.
“Business owner” means any person recognized by a locality as the owner of a business subject to a business fee. A business may appoint an authorized agent to act as its representative for the purposes of this article. Such agent shall be considered the business owner for the purposes of any signature required under this article or for any other purpose authorized by the business owner. A locality shall have no obligation to obtain other information as to the ownership of businesses, and its determination of ownership shall be final and conclusive for the purposes of this article.
“Capital improvement” means an improvement to tangible personal property with an estimated useful life of five years or more.
“Fee” means a fee charged by a locality in accordance with a business improvement and recruitment district plan.
“Lead locality” means the locality in which the business improvement and recruitment district plan is filed for the establishment of a business improvement and recruitment district where such district includes more than one locality.
“Locality” means any county, city, or town in the Commonwealth.
“Main Street District” means a physical setting that includes a commercial area focusing on economic development through locally owned businesses and structures that would benefit from rehabilitation.
“Majority share of benefited businesses” means one or more benefited businesses within a business improvement and recruitment district or proposed business improvement and recruitment district that cumulatively comprise a simple majority.
2023, c. 745.