Virginia Code 42.1-93: Definitions
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- Collegial body: means a governmental entity whose power or authority is vested within its membership. See Virginia Code 1-209
- 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
“Local or regional agency” means all political subdivisions, including counties, cities, and towns, and other governmental agencies in the Commonwealth, other than state agencies.
“Publication” means all documents, regardless of physical form or characteristics and issued by or for a state, local, or regional agency, in full or in part at government expense, that are created for the research or informational use of the public. “Publication” shall not include documents that are developed solely for the agency’s administrative and internal operations.
“State agency” means every agency, institution, collegial body, or other state governmental entity of any branch of government.
2006, c. 59.