Terms Used In Virginia Code > Title 30 > Chapter 67 - Virginia Commission to End Hunger

• Acquittal:
  1. Judgement that a criminal defendant has not been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
  2. A verdict of "not guilty."
   
• Committee membership: Legislators are assigned to specific committees by their party. Seniority, regional balance, and political philosophy are the most prominent factors in the committee assignment process.
• Continual accelerated erosion: means a rapid increase in the erosion rate of stream banks caused by loss of vegetation, diversion of water by constrictions, undermining, and other resultant effects of severe floods. See Virginia Code 10.1-650
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Natural streams: means nontidal waterways which are part of the natural topography. See Virginia Code 10.1-650
• Program: means the Stream Restoration Assistance Program. See Virginia Code 10.1-650
• revocation: means that the document or privilege revoked is not subject to renewal or restoration except through reapplication after the expiration of the period of revocation. See Virginia Code 46.2-100
• Stream restoration: means any combination of structural and vegetative measures which may be taken to restore, stabilize, and protect a natural stream which has been damaged by severe flooding and is consequently subject to continual accelerated erosion or other detrimental effects. See Virginia Code 10.1-650
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.