Terms Used In Virginia Code > Title 30 > Chapter 13.1 - Sexual Harassment Training Act

• Authority: means a regional passenger rail station authority created pursuant to this chapter. See Virginia Code 33.2-3800
• Board: means the board of directors of the authority. See Virginia Code 33.2-3800
• Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Financial Institutions. See Virginia Code 6.2-100
• Credit union: means a cooperative, nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of the Commonwealth and authorized to do business under this chapter for the purposes of encouraging thrift among its members, creating a source of credit at fair and reasonable rates of interest, providing an opportunity for its members to use and control their own money on a democratic basis in order to improve their economic and social condition, and conducting any other business, engaging in any other activity, and providing any other service that may be of benefit to its members, consistent with the provisions of this chapter and any regulations adopted by the Commission under this chapter. See Virginia Code 6.2-1300
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Facility: includes structures that are not owned by the authority or its members but are subject to a cooperative arrangement pursuant to subdivision 13 of § Virginia Code 33.2-3800
• Governing bodies: means the county boards of supervisors, city and town councils, and boards of visitors of institutions of higher education that are members of the authority. See Virginia Code 33.2-3800
• 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 Virginia Code 1-257
• Includes: means includes, but not limited to. See Virginia Code 1-218
• inhabitants: means with reference to any county, city, town, political subdivision of the Commonwealth or any combination thereof, the natural persons in such county, city, town, political subdivision or combination as shown by the unadjusted United States decennial census last preceding the time at which any provision dependent upon population is being applied or the time as of which it is being construed. See Virginia Code 1-235
• Legislative branch employee: means (i) a General Assembly member; (ii) a General Assembly member's legislative assistant or other legislative staff compensated in whole, or in part, with state appropriations, working full-time for the member; and (iii) all other full-time employees of each legislative branch agency of the Commonwealth. See Virginia Code 30-129.4
• Locality: has the meaning assigned to it in § 1-221. See Virginia Code 33.2-100
• Members: means the counties, cities, towns, and institutions of higher education that comprise the authority. See Virginia Code 33.2-3800
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Oath: includes affirmation. See Virginia Code 1-228
• Person: means any individual, corporation, partnership, association, cooperative, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, government, political subdivision, or other legal or commercial entity. See Virginia Code 6.2-100
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Region: means Planning District 4. See Virginia Code 33.2-3800
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Transportation. See Virginia Code 33.2-100
• Sexual harassment: means unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when such conduct explicitly or implicitly affects an individual's employment, unreasonably interferes with an individual's work performance, or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment. See Virginia Code 30-129.4
• Shares: means the interest of a member having an account in a credit union. See Virginia Code 6.2-1300
• state agency: means the same as that term is defined in § Virginia Code 1-206