As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

Terms Used In Virginia Code 15.2-1815

  • Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
  • Conduit entity: means an organization described in § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code that qualifies as a public charity under § 509(a)(2) or 509(a)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, and the purposes of which entity allow it to perform the functions and obligations of a conduit entity prescribed in a financing agreement. See Virginia Code 15.2-1815
  • Conveyed property: means real and personal property conveyed by a local government to a conduit or other entity pursuant to a financing agreement. See Virginia Code 15.2-1815
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • local government: shall be construed to mean a county, city, or town as the context may require. See Virginia Code 15.2-102
  • Locality: means a county, city, or town as the context may require. See Virginia Code 1-221
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Project: means a structure or structures identified in the capital improvement program of the locality or an agency or instrumentality of the locality that is a revenue-producing undertaking as provided in § 15. See Virginia Code 15.2-1815

“Conduit entity” means an organization described in § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code that qualifies as a public charity under § 509(a)(2) or 509(a)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, and the purposes of which entity allow it to perform the functions and obligations of a conduit entity prescribed in a financing agreement.

“Conveyed property” means real and personal property conveyed by a local government to a conduit or other entity pursuant to a financing agreement.

“Costs,” as applied to a project or any portion thereof financed under the provisions of this chapter, means all or any part of the cost of construction, acquisition, alteration, enlargement, reconstruction, and remodeling of a project including all lands, structures, real or personal property, rights, rights-of-way, air rights, franchises, easements, and interests acquired or used for or in connection with a project; the cost of demolishing or removing any buildings or structures on land so acquired, including the cost of acquiring any lands to which such buildings or structures may be moved; the cost of all machinery and equipment; financing charges; interest prior to, during, and for a period after completion of such construction and acquisition; provisions for reserves for principal and interest and for extensions, enlargements, additions, replacements, renovations, and improvements; the cost of architectural, engineering, financial, and legal services, plans, specifications, studies, surveys, and estimates of cost and of revenues; administrative expenses; expenses necessary or incident to determining the feasibility or practicability of constructing the project; and such other expenses as may be necessary or incident to the construction and acquisition of the project, the financing of such construction and acquisition, and the placing of the project in operation.

“Private capital funding source” means a private entity that enters into a financing agreement, under which that private entity shall purchase a lease of the conveyed property for a consideration to be provided in such agreement, and its successors and assigns.

“Project” means a structure or structures identified in the capital improvement program of the locality or an agency or instrumentality of the locality that is a revenue-producing undertaking as provided in § 15.2-2608.

2011, cc. 562, 660.