Terms Used In Virginia Code > Title 51.1 > Chapter 11 > Article 1 - General Provisions

• Act: means the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act (§ 65. See Virginia Code 51.1-1100
• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• Company: means an insurance company issuing a long-term disability insurance policy purchased by the Board pursuant to this chapter. See Virginia Code 51.1-1100
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Disability: means a partial disability or total disability. See Virginia Code 51.1-1100
• Disability benefit: means income replacement payments payable to a participating employee under a short-term or long-term disability benefit program pursuant to this chapter. See Virginia Code 51.1-1100
• Eligible employee: means (i) a state employee as defined in § 51. See Virginia Code 51.1-1100
• 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
• Month: means a calendar month and "year" means a calendar year. See Virginia Code 1-223
• Participating employee: means any eligible employee required or electing to participate in the program. See Virginia Code 51.1-1100
• Person: includes any individual, corporation, partnership, association, cooperative, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, government, political subdivision, or any other legal or commercial entity and any successor, representative, agent, agency, or instrumentality thereof. See Virginia Code 1-230
• Program: means the program providing sick leave, family and personal leave, short-term disability, and long-term disability benefits for participating employees established pursuant to this chapter. See Virginia Code 51.1-1100
• Qualifying part-time employee: means any person who would qualify as a state employee as defined in § 51. See Virginia Code 51.1-1100
• 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
• State service: means the employee's total period of state service as an eligible employee, including all periods of classified full-time and classified part-time service and periods of leave without pay, but not including periods during which the employee did not meet the definition of an eligible employee. See Virginia Code 51.1-1100
• United States: includes 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 1-255