§ 2.2-2800 Disability to hold state office
§ 2.2-2801 Disability to hold state office; exceptions
§ 2.2-2802 Exception as to public officer or employee who engages in war service or is called to active duty in the Armed Forces of the United States
§ 2.2-2803 Exception as to public officer or employee serving in the Selective Service System of the United States
§ 2.2-2804 Selective Service compliance
§ 2.2-2805 Members of armed forces; reserve forces
§ 2.2-2806 Holding other office by officers of state institutions
§ 2.2-2807 Prohibition against holding two elected offices simultaneously; exceptions
§ 2.2-2808 Acts under color of office; contracts in violation of chapter
§ 2.2-2809 Bonds of certain officers required; condition
§ 2.2-2810 Premiums on such bonds
§ 2.2-2811 Where bonds filed
§ 2.2-2812 Employment of personnel
§ 2.2-2812.1 State agencies prohibited from inquiring about arrests, charges, or convictions on employment applications; exceptions
§ 2.2-2813 Definitions; compensation and expense payments from state funds for service on collegial bodies
§ 2.2-2814 How salaries, expenses and other allowances paid; time of payment
§ 2.2-2815 Increase in salaries
§ 2.2-2816 Liability of salary of officer for debt he owes Commonwealth; how enforced; when officer’s right to file petition barred
§ 2.2-2817 Defense of employees
§ 2.2-2817.1 State agencies to establish alternative work schedules; reporting requirement
§ 2.2-2817.2 Employees of the University of Virginia Medical Center
§ 2.2-2818 Health and related insurance for state employees
§ 2.2-2818.01 Employer contributions
§ 2.2-2818.1 Supplemental health insurance coverage; state employees eligible for military health insurance coverage
§ 2.2-2818.2 Application of mandates to the state employee health insurance plan
§ 2.2-2819 Purchase of continued health insurance coverage by the surviving spouse and any dependents of an active or retired state employee
§ 2.2-2820 Purchase of health insurance coverage by part-time state employees
§ 2.2-2821 Workers’ compensation insurance plan for state employees trust fund for payment of claims
§ 2.2-2821.1 Leave for bone marrow or organ donation
§ 2.2-2821.2 Leave for volunteer fire and volunteer emergency medical services
§ 2.2-2821.3 Leave for volunteer members of Civil Air Patrol
§ 2.2-2822 Ownership and use of patents and copyrights developed by certain public employees; Creative Commons copyrights
§ 2.2-2823 Traveling expenses on state business; public or private transportation
§ 2.2-2824 Monitoring travel expenses while on state business
§ 2.2-2825 Reimbursement for certain travel expenditures; restrictions on reimbursement
§ 2.2-2826 Travel expense accounts; review by Comptroller
§ 2.2-2827 Restrictions on state employee access to information infrastructure
§ 2.2-2829 Disappearance of public officer; when office presumed vacant
§ 2.2-2830 Governor to fill vacancy in any state office where no other provision is made by law; term of appointment; benefits
§ 2.2-2831 Payment of severance benefits; exceptions
§ 2.2-2832 Retaliatory actions against persons providing testimony before a committee or subcommittee of the General Assembly

Terms Used In Virginia Code > Title 2.2 > Subtitle I > Part E > Chapter 28 - General Provisions

  • Adult: means a person 18 years of age or more. See Virginia Code 1-203
  • Agricultural activity: means any activity used in the production of food and fiber, including farming, feedlots, grazing livestock, poultry raising, dairy farming, and aquaculture activities. See Virginia Code 3.2-400
  • Allegation: something that someone says happened.
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
  • Board: means the Soil and Water Conservation Board. See Virginia Code 3.2-400
  • Board: means the Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services. See Virginia Code 3.2-100
  • Center: means the business registration and permitting center established by this section and located in and under the administrative control of the Department. See Virginia Code 2.2-1617
  • Centralized fleet: means the same as that term is defined in § 2. See Virginia Code 2.2-1182
  • Certification: means the process by which (i) a business is determined to be a small, women-owned, or minority-owned business or (ii) an employment services organization, for the purpose of reporting small, women-owned, and minority-owned business and employment services organization participation in state contracts and purchases pursuant to §§ 2. See Virginia Code 2.2-1604
  • Chambers: A judge's office.
  • Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services. See Virginia Code 3.2-100
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Complaint: means an allegation made by any person to the Commissioner that an owner's or operator's agricultural activity is creating or, if not changed, will create pollution and that states the location and nature of such agricultural activity. See Virginia Code 3.2-400
  • Comprehensive application: means a document incorporating pertinent data from existing applications for permits covered under this section. See Virginia Code 2.2-1617
  • Comprehensive permit: means the single document designed for public display issued by the Business Permitting Center that certifies state agency permit approval and that incorporates the endorsements for individual permits included in the comprehensive permitting program. See Virginia Code 2.2-1617
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Department: means the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity or any division of the Department to which the Director has delegated or assigned duties and responsibilities. See Virginia Code 2.2-1604
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Employment services organization: means an organization that provides community-based employment services to individuals with disabilities that is an approved Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) accredited vendor of the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services. See Virginia Code 2.2-1604
  • Farmer: means any person who derives at least 75 percent of his gross income from a farming operation in the Commonwealth as reported on his federal income tax forms the previous year, or a farmer who receives or is eligible to receive a federal loan and who owns or leases land that would be eligible for special tax assessments pursuant to Article 4 (§ 58. See Virginia Code 3.2-500
  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
  • Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying. The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute. Source: OCC
  • High performance building certification program: means a public building design, construction, and renovation program that meets the requirements of VEES. See Virginia Code 2.2-1182
  • Informal fact-finding conference: means an informal fact-finding conference conducted in accordance with § 2. See Virginia Code 3.2-400
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
  • Joint resolution: A legislative measure which requires the approval of both chambers.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Local Grant Program: means the Local Food and Farming Infrastructure Grant Program established pursuant to § 3. See Virginia Code 3.2-303
  • Major disaster: means any hurricane, flood, or drought that would warrant a disaster declaration request by the Governor pursuant to the provisions of Section 301 of Public Law 93-288, 42 U. See Virginia Code 3.2-500
  • measures: includes : (i) agricultural water quality protection management measures described in the Virginia Agricultural Best Management Practices Manual; and (ii) agricultural water quality protection management measures contained in the U. See Virginia Code 3.2-400
  • Minority-owned business: means a business that is at least 51 percent owned by one or more minority individuals who are U. See Virginia Code 2.2-1604
  • Month: means a calendar month and "year" means a calendar year. See Virginia Code 1-223
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Move: means to ship, offer for shipment, receive for transportation, carry, or otherwise transport, move, or allow to be moved, except for bona fide agricultural purposes including the management, tilling, planting, or harvesting of agricultural products. See Virginia Code 3.2-800
  • Notary: means notary public. See Virginia Code 1-226
  • Noxious weed: means any living plant, or part thereof, declared by the Board through regulations under this chapter to be detrimental to crops, surface waters, including lakes, or other desirable plants, livestock, land, or other property, or to be injurious to public health, the environment, or the economy, except when in-state production of such living plant, or part thereof, is commercially viable or such living plant is commercially propagated in Virginia. See Virginia Code 3.2-800
  • 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.
  • Operator: means any person who exercises managerial control over any agricultural activity. See Virginia Code 3.2-400
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Owner: means any person who owns land where an agricultural activity occurs. See Virginia Code 3.2-400
  • Permit: means the whole or part of any state agency permit, license, certificate, approval, registration, charter, or any form or permission required by law, to engage in activity associated with or involving the establishment of a small business in the Commonwealth. See Virginia Code 2.2-1617
  • plan: means a site-specific plan for an agricultural activity to manage, through use of stewardship measures, one or more of the following: soil, water, plants, plant nutrients, pest controls, wastes, and animals. See Virginia Code 3.2-400
  • Pollution: means any alteration of the physical, chemical, or biological properties of any state waters resulting from sedimentation, nutrients, or toxins. See Virginia Code 3.2-400
  • Process: includes subpoenas, the summons and complaint in a civil action, and process in statutory actions. See Virginia Code 1-237
  • Program: means the mechanism by which comprehensive permits are issued and renewed, permit and regulatory information is disseminated, and account data is exchanged by state agencies. See Virginia Code 2.2-1617
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • Quarantine: means a legal declaration by the Board that specifies: (i) the noxious weed; (ii) the articles to be regulated; (iii) conditions governing movement; and (iv) exemptions. See Virginia Code 3.2-800
  • Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
  • Regulated article: means any article of any character as described in this chapter or in the quarantine carrying or capable of carrying a noxious weed against which this chapter or the quarantine is directed. See Virginia Code 3.2-800
  • Regulatory: means all permitting and other governmental or statutory requirements establishing a small business or professional activities associated with establishing a small business. See Virginia Code 2.2-1617
  • Regulatory agency: means any state agency, board, commission, or division that regulates one or more professions, occupations, industries, businesses, or activities. See Virginia Code 2.2-1617
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Small business: means an independently owned and operated business that, together with affiliates, has 250 or fewer employees or average annual gross receipts of $10 million or less averaged over the previous three years. See Virginia Code 2.2-1617
  • Small business: means a business that is at least 51 percent independently owned and controlled by one or more individuals, or in the case of a cooperative association organized pursuant to Chapter 3 of Title 13. See Virginia Code 2.2-1604
  • State agency: means any authority, board, department, instrumentality, institution, agency, or other unit of state government. See Virginia Code 2.2-1604
  • State waters: means all water, on the surface or in the ground, wholly or partially within or bordering the Commonwealth or within its jurisdiction. See Virginia Code 3.2-400
  • Sufficient electric vehicle charging infrastructure: means provision or reservation of sufficient space to provide electric vehicle charging stations and related infrastructure, including transformers, service equipment, and large conduit, to support every centralized fleet vehicle that will be located at such building. See Virginia Code 2.2-1182
  • SWaM: means small, women-owned, or minority-owned or related to a small, women-owned, or minority-owned business. See Virginia Code 2.2-1604
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • VEES: means the Virginia Energy Conservation and Environmental Standards developed by the Department considering the U. See Virginia Code 2.2-1182
  • Veteran: means an individual who has served in the active military, naval, or air service and who was discharged or released therefrom under conditions other than dishonorable. See Virginia Code 2.2-1617