Terms Used In Virginia Code > Title 32.1 > Chapter 4 > Article 3 - 1. Emergency Medical Services Patient Care Information System

• affiliated group: has the meaning given in § 58. See Virginia Code 58.1-2600
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Cogenerator: means a qualifying cogenerator or qualifying small power producer within the meaning of regulations adopted by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in implementation of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (P. See Virginia Code 58.1-2600
• Commission: means the State Corporation Commission which is hereby designated pursuant to Article X, Section 2 of the Constitution of Virginia as the central state agency responsible for the assessment of the real and personal property of all public service corporations, except those public service corporations for which the Department of Taxation is so designated, upon which the Commonwealth levies a license tax measured by the gross receipts of such corporations. See Virginia Code 58.1-2600
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: means the State Department of Health. See Virginia Code 32.1-3
• Department: means the Department of Taxation. See Virginia Code 58.1-2500
• Department: means the Department of Taxation which is hereby designated pursuant to Article X, Section 2 of the Constitution of Virginia as the central state agency to assess the real and personal property of railroads and pipeline transmission companies as defined herein. See Virginia Code 58.1-2600
• Direct gross premium income: means the gross amount of all premiums, assessments, dues and fees collected, received or derived, or obligations taken therefor, from business in this Commonwealth during each year ending December 31, excluding premiums received for reinsurance assumed from licensed insurance companies, without any deduction for dividends paid or deduction on any other account except for premiums returned on cancelled policies, or on account of reduction in rates or reduction in the amount insured, and excluding premiums received or derived to provide insurance of the kinds classified in §§ 38. See Virginia Code 58.1-2500
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Electric supplier: means any person owning or operating facilities for the generation, storage, transmission or distribution of electricity for sales, except any person owning or operating facilities with a designed generation or storage capacity of 25 megawatts or less. See Virginia Code 58.1-2600
• Energy storage system: means the same as that term is defined in § 58. See Virginia Code 58.1-2600
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Gross receipts: means the total of all revenue derived in the Commonwealth, including but not limited to income from the provision or performance of a service or the performance of incidental operations not necessarily associated with the particular service performed, without deductions for expenses or other adjustments. See Virginia Code 58.1-2600
• Includes: means includes, but not limited to. See Virginia Code 1-218
• License year: means the 12-month period beginning on July 1 next succeeding the taxable year and ending on June 30 of the subsequent year. See Virginia Code 58.1-2500
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, or association or any other legal entity. See Virginia Code 32.1-3
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Pipeline transmission company: means a corporation authorized to transmit natural gas, manufactured gas or crude petroleum and the products or by-products thereof in the public service by means of a pipeline or pipelines from one point to another when such gas or petroleum is not for sale to an ultimate consumer for purposes of furnishing heat or light. See Virginia Code 58.1-2600
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes any of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the United States Virgin Islands. See Virginia Code 1-245
• state agency: means the same as that term is defined in § 2. See Virginia Code 1-206
• State Board: means the State Board of Health. See Virginia Code 32.1-3
• Storage: means the storage of energy by an energy storage system. See Virginia Code 58.1-2600
• Tax: means the amount derived by multiplying the direct gross premium income in the taxable year by the tax rate. See Virginia Code 58.1-2500
• Tax year: means the twelve-month period beginning on January 1 and ending on December 31 of the same calendar year, such year also being the tax assessment year or the year in which the tax levied under this chapter shall be paid. See Virginia Code 58.1-2600
• Taxable year: means the calendar year preceding the tax year, upon which the gross receipts are computed as a basis for the payment of the tax levied pursuant to this chapter. See Virginia Code 58.1-2600
• Taxpayer: includes every person, corporation, partnership, organization, trust or estate subject to taxation under the laws of this Commonwealth, or under the ordinances, resolutions or orders of any county, city, town or other political subdivision of this Commonwealth. See Virginia Code 58.1-1
• Telegraph company: means a corporation or person operating the apparatus necessary to communicate by telegraph. See Virginia Code 58.1-2600