Terms Used In Virginia Code > Title 29.1 > Chapter 7 - Boating Laws

• Agreement: means the same as that term is defined in subdivision (b)(3) of § 8. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• 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.
• Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
• Assessment: as used in this subtitle , shall include an assessment made pursuant to notice by the Department of Taxation and self-assessments made by a taxpayer upon the filing of a return or otherwise not pursuant to notice. See Virginia Code 58.1-1820
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Authority: means the Virginia Housing Development Authority, or its successor agency. See Virginia Code 58.1-439.29
• Bailee: means the person who by a warehouse receipt, bill of lading or other document acknowledges possession of goods and contracts to deliver them. See Virginia Code 8.7-102
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• Barge: means a watercraft that is not self-propelled or fitted for propulsion by sail, paddle, oar, or similar device. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Buyer: means a person that buys or contracts to buy a watercraft. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Buyer in ordinary course of business: means the same as that term is defined in subdivision (b)(9) of § 8. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Carrier: means a person that issues a bill of lading. See Virginia Code 8.7-102
• Certificate of origin: means a record created by a manufacturer or importer as the manufacturer's or importer's proof of identity of a watercraft. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Certificate of title: means a record, created by the Department under this article or by a governmental agency of another jurisdiction under the law of that jurisdiction that is designated as a certificate of title by the Department or agency and is evidence of ownership of a watercraft. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• 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.
• Claimant agency: means any administrative unit of state, county, city or town government, including department, institution, commission, authority, or the office of Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court, any circuit or district court and the Internal Revenue Service. See Virginia Code 58.1-520
• Consumer goods: means the same as that term is defined in subdivision (a)(23) of § 8. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• County: means any existing county or such unit hereafter created. See Virginia Code 15.2-102
• Credit period: means the credit period as defined in § 42(f)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended. See Virginia Code 58.1-439.29
• Dealer: means any watercraft dealer as defined in § 29. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Debtor: means the same as that term is defined in subdivision (a)(28) of § 8. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Debtor: means any individual having a delinquent debt or account with any claimant agency which obligation has not been satisfied by court order, set aside by court order, or discharged in bankruptcy. See Virginia Code 58.1-520
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Delinquent debt: means any liquidated sum due and owing any claimant agency, or any restitution ordered paid to a clerk of the court pursuant to Title 19. See Virginia Code 58.1-520
• 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.
• Document: means document of title as defined in the general definitions in Title 8. See Virginia Code 8.7-102
• Documented vessel: means a watercraft covered by a certificate of documentation issued pursuant to 46 U. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Electronic: means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Electronic certificate of title: means a certificate of title consisting of information that is stored solely in an electronic medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Eligibility certificate: means a certificate issued by the Authority to the owner of a qualified project certifying that such project qualifies for the Virginia housing opportunity tax credit authorized by this article, and specifying the amount of housing opportunity tax credits that the owner of such qualified project may claim in each year of the credit period. See Virginia Code 58.1-439.29
• Eligible pre-kindergarten child: means a child who is (i) a resident of Virginia; (ii) an at-risk four-year-old unable to obtain services through Head Start or Virginia Preschool Initiative programs; and (iii) enrolled in, eligible to attend, or attending a nonpublic pre-kindergarten program and whose family (a) does not have an annual household income in excess of 300 percent of the current poverty guidelines or 400 percent of such guidelines in cases in which an individualized education program has been written and finalized for the child in accordance with the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), regulations promulgated pursuant to IDEA, and regulations of the Board of Education; (b) is homeless as defined in 42 U. See Virginia Code 58.1-439.25
• En banc: In the bench or "full bench." Refers to court sessions with the entire membership of a court participating rather than the usual quorum. U.S. courts of appeals usually sit in panels of three judges, but may expand to a larger number in certain cases. They are then said to be sitting en banc.
• Federal low-income housing tax credit: means the federal tax credit as provided in § 42 of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended. See Virginia Code 58.1-439.29
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• 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.
• 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}
• Foreign-documented vessel: means a watercraft whose ownership is recorded in a registry maintained by a country other than the United States that identifies each person that has an ownership interest in a watercraft and includes a unique alphanumeric designation for the watercraft. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Good faith: means honesty in fact and the observance of reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Good faith: means honesty in fact and the observance of reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing. See Virginia Code 8.7-102
• Goods: means all things that are treated as movable for the purposes of a contract of storage or transportation. See Virginia Code 8.7-102
• Governing body: means the board of supervisors of a county, council of a city, or council of a town, as the context may require. See Virginia Code 15.2-102
• Hull damaged: means compromised with respect to the integrity of a watercraft's hull by a collision, allision, lightning strike, fire, explosion, running aground, or similar occurrence, or the sinking of a watercraft in a manner that creates a significant risk to the integrity of the watercraft's hull. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Hull identification number: means the alphanumeric designation assigned to a watercraft pursuant to 33 C. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Issuer: means a bailee who issues a document except that in relation to an unaccepted delivery order it means the person who orders the possessor of goods to deliver. See Virginia Code 8.7-102
• Knowledge: means the same as that term is defined in § 8. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Lease: means the same as that term is defined in subdivision (1)(j) of § 8. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
• Lessor: means the same as that term is defined in subdivision (1)(p) of § 8. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Month: means a calendar month and "year" means a calendar year. See Virginia Code 1-223
• Motorboat: means any vessel propelled by machinery whether or not the machinery is the principal source of propulsion. See Virginia Code 29.1-700
• National Bank: A bank that is subject to the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. A national bank can be recognized because it must have "national" or "national association" in its name. ^{Source: OCC}
• No wake: means operation of a motorboat at the slowest possible speed required to maintain steerage and headway. See Virginia Code 29.1-700
• Nonpublic pre-kindergarten program: means a pre-kindergarten program that is not operated, directly or indirectly, by a federal, state, or local government entity and that is (i) a preschool program designed for child development and kindergarten preparation that complies with nonpublic school accreditation requirements administered by the Virginia Council for Private Education pursuant to § 22. See Virginia Code 58.1-439.25
• Notice: means the same as that term is defined in § 8. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Operate: means to navigate or otherwise control the movement of a motorboat or a vessel. See Virginia Code 29.1-700
• Owner: means a person, other than a lien holder, having the property in or title to a motorboat. See Virginia Code 29.1-700
• Owner: means a person that has legal title to a watercraft. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Owner of record: means the owner indicated in the files of the Department or, if the files indicate more than one owner, the one first indicated. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, statutory trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Personal watercraft: means a motorboat less than sixteen feet in length which uses an inboard motor powering a jet pump, as its primary motive power and which is designed to be operated by a person sitting, standing, or kneeling on, rather than in the conventional manner of sitting or standing inside, the vessel. See Virginia Code 29.1-700
• Poverty guidelines: means the poverty guidelines for the 48 contiguous states and the District of Columbia updated annually in the Federal Register by the U. See Virginia Code 58.1-439.25
• Public corporation: means the Commonwealth of Virginia or any political subdivision thereof or any incorporated municipality therein or any public agency of the Commonwealth or of any political subdivision thereof or of any municipality therein. See Virginia Code 1-219.1
• Purchase: means to take by sale, lease, mortgage, pledge, consensual lien, security interest, gift, or any other voluntary transaction that creates an interest in a watercraft. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Purchaser: means a person that takes by purchase. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Qualified educational expenses: means school-related tuition and instructional fees and materials, including textbooks, workbooks, and supplies used solely for school-related work. See Virginia Code 58.1-439.25
• Qualified project: means a qualified low-income building, as defined in § 42(c) of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended, that is located in Virginia, is placed in service on or after January 1, 2021, and is issued an eligibility certificate. See Virginia Code 58.1-439.29
• Qualified taxpayer: means a taxpayer owning an interest, direct or indirect, through one or more pass-through entities, in a qualified project at any time prior to filing a tax return claiming a housing opportunity tax credit. See Virginia Code 58.1-439.29
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Virginia Code 8.7-102
• Refund: means any individual's Virginia state or local income tax refund payable pursuant to § 58. See Virginia Code 58.1-520
• Registration number: means the alphanumeric designation for a vessel issued pursuant to 46 U. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Representative: means the same as that term is defined in subdivision (b)(33) of § 8. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Sale: means the same as that term is defined in § 8. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Scholarship foundation: means a nonstock, nonprofit corporation that is (i) exempt from taxation under § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended or renumbered; (ii) approved by the Department of Education in accordance with the provisions of § 58. See Virginia Code 58.1-439.25
• Secured party of record: means the secured party whose name is indicated as the name of the secured party in the files of the Department or, if the files indicate more than one secured party, the one first indicated. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Security interest: means an interest in a watercraft that secures payment or performance of an obligation if the interest is created by contract or arises under § 8. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Seller: means the same as that term is defined in subdivision (1)(o) of § 8. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Send: means the same as that term is defined in subdivision (b)(36) of § 8. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Sign: means , with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record, to:

  1. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2

• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• state agency: means the same as that term is defined in § 2. See Virginia Code 1-206
• State of principal use: means the state on whose waters a watercraft is or will be used, operated, navigated, or employed more than on the waters of any other state during a calendar year. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Student: means a child who is a resident of Virginia and (i) in the current school year has enrolled and attended a public school in the Commonwealth for at least one-half of the year, (ii) for the school year that immediately preceded his receipt of a scholarship foundation scholarship was enrolled and attended a public school in the Commonwealth for at least one-half of the year, (iii) is a prior recipient of a scholarship foundation scholarship, (iv) is eligible to enter kindergarten or eligible to enter first grade, or (v) for the school year that immediately preceded his receipt of a scholarship foundation scholarship was domiciled in a state other than the Commonwealth and did not attend a nonpublic school in the Commonwealth for more than one-half of the school year. See Virginia Code 58.1-439.25
• Supreme Court: means the Supreme Court of Virginia. See Virginia Code 1-249
• sworn: means "affirm" or "affirmed. See Virginia Code 1-250
• tax credit: means the tax credit created by this article. See Virginia Code 58.1-439.29
• Taxpayer: means an individual, corporation, S corporation, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, or nonprofit organization. See Virginia Code 58.1-439.29
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Title brand: means a designation of previous damage, use, or condition that shall be indicated on a certificate of title. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Transfer of ownership: means a voluntary or involuntary conveyance of an interest in a watercraft. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• Value: means the same as that term is defined in § 8. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Vessel: means every description of watercraft, other than a seaplane on the water, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water. See Virginia Code 29.1-700
• Virginia tax liability: means the income taxes imposed by Articles 2 (§ 58. See Virginia Code 58.1-439.29
• Warehouseman: is a person engaged in the business of storing goods for hire. See Virginia Code 8.7-102
• Watercraft: means any vessel that is used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water and is propelled by machinery, whether or not the machinery is the principal source of propulsion, except:

  1. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2

• Written certificate of title: means a certificate of title consisting of information inscribed on a tangible medium. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2