Terms Used In Virginia Code > Title 67 > Chapter 16 - Southwest Virginia Energy Research and Development Authority

• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Asbestos: means the asbestiform varieties of actinolite, amosite, anthophyllite, chrysotile, crocidolite, and tremolite. See Virginia Code 54.1-500
• Authority: means the Southwest Virginia Energy Research and Development Authority created pursuant to this chapter. See Virginia Code 67-1600
• Board: means the Virginia Board for Asbestos, Lead, and Home Inspectors. See Virginia Code 54.1-500
• Department: means the Department of Education. See Virginia Code 22.1-1
• Department: means the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy. See Virginia Code 67-200
• Developer: means any private developer of an energy development project in Southwest Virginia. See Virginia Code 67-1600
• Division superintendent: means the division superintendent of schools of a school division. See Virginia Code 22.1-1
• Energy development project: means an electric generation facility located within Southwest Virginia and includes interests in land, improvements, and ancillary facilities. See Virginia Code 67-1600
• 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}
• Home inspection: means any inspection of a residential building for compensation conducted by a licensed home inspector. See Virginia Code 54.1-500
• Home inspector: means a person who meets the criteria of education, experience, and testing required by this chapter and regulations of the Board and who has been licensed by the Board to perform home inspections. See Virginia Code 54.1-500
• 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
• parents: means any parent, guardian, legal custodian, or other person having control or charge of a child. See Virginia Code 22.1-1
• Person: means a corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship, firm, enterprise, franchise, association or any other individual or entity. See Virginia Code 54.1-500
• 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
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Plan: means the Virginia Energy Plan prepared pursuant to this chapter, including any updates thereto. See Virginia Code 67-200
• Principal instructor: means the individual who has the primary responsibility for organizing and teaching an accredited asbestos training program, an accredited lead training program, an accredited renovation training program, or any combination thereof. See Virginia Code 54.1-500
• 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.
• Renovation: means the modification of any existing structure or portion thereof, for compensation, that results in the disturbance of painted surfaces, unless that activity is (i) performed as a part of a lead abatement or (ii) limited in scope to the site work or remediation as referenced in the definition of contractor in § 54. See Virginia Code 54.1-500
• Renovator: means an individual who has been issued a license by the Board to perform renovations or to direct others who perform renovations. See Virginia Code 54.1-500
• School board: means the school board that governs a school division. See Virginia Code 22.1-1
• Southwest Virginia: means the region of the Commonwealth designated as Southwest Virginia in § 22. See Virginia Code 67-1600
• Superintendent: means the Superintendent of Public Instruction. See Virginia Code 22.1-1
• Training manager: means the individual responsible for administering a training program and monitoring the performance of instructors for an accredited asbestos training, accredited lead training program or accredited renovation training program. See Virginia Code 54.1-500