Terms Used In Virginia Code > Title 30 > Chapter 13 > Article 3 - Prohibited Conduct Regarding Contracts

• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contract: includes a subcontract only when the contract of which it is a part is with the legislator's own governmental agency. See Virginia Code 30-101
• 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.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Financial institution: means any bank, trust company, savings institution, industrial loan association, consumer finance company, credit union, broker-dealer as defined in subsection A of § 13. See Virginia Code 30-101
• Governmental agency: means each component part of the legislative, executive or judicial branches of state and local government, including each office, department, authority, post, commission, committee, and each institution or board created by law to exercise some regulatory or sovereign power or duty as distinguished from purely advisory powers or duties. See Virginia Code 30-101
• Immediate family: means (i) a spouse and (ii) any other person who resides in the same household as the legislator and who is a dependent of the legislator. See Virginia Code 30-101
• in writing: include any representation of words, letters, symbols, numbers, or figures, whether (i) printed or inscribed on a tangible medium or (ii) stored in an electronic or other medium and retrievable in a perceivable form and whether an electronic signature authorized by Chapter 42. See Virginia Code 1-257
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• 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}
• Legislator: means a member of the General Assembly. See Virginia Code 30-101
• Personal interest: means a financial benefit or liability accruing to a legislator or to a member of his immediate family. See Virginia Code 30-101
• Personal interest in a contract: means a personal interest that a legislator has in a contract with a governmental agency, whether due to his being a party to the contract or due to a personal interest in a business that is a party to the contract. See Virginia Code 30-101
• Probate: Proving a will
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• relative: means the donee's spouse, child, uncle, aunt, niece, nephew, or first cousin; a person to whom the donee is engaged to be married; the donee's or his spouse's parent, grandparent, grandchild, brother, sister, step-parent, step-grandparent, step-grandchild, step-brother, or step-sister; or the donee's brother's or sister's spouse or the donee's son-in-law or daughter-in-law. See Virginia Code 30-101
• State: means any state, territory or possession of the United States and the District of Columbia. See Virginia Code 58.1-901