Terms Used In Virginia Code > Title 51.1 > Chapter 11.1 - Disability Program for Hybrid Retirement Program Participants

• Act: means the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act (§ Virginia Code 51.1-1150
• Authority: means an authority created under the provisions of § Virginia Code 15.2-5101
• Company: means an insurance company issuing a long-term disability insurance policy purchased by the Board pursuant to this chapter. See Virginia Code 51.1-1150
• Continuous service: means an uninterrupted period of service as a participating employee with the same employer. See Virginia Code 51.1-1150
• Disability: means a partial disability or total disability. See Virginia Code 51.1-1150
• 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 51.1-1150
• Eligible employee: means a person who is (i) not eligible for the disability program pursuant to Chapter 11 (§ Virginia Code 51.1-1150
• Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Locality: means a county, city, or town as the context may require. See Virginia Code 1-221
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Owner: includes persons, federal agencies, and units of the Commonwealth having any title or interest in any system, or the services or facilities to be rendered thereby. See Virginia Code 15.2-5101
• Partial disability: means a disability that exists during the first 24 months following the occurrence or commencement of an illness or injury when an employee is earning less than 80 percent of his predisability earnings and, as a result of an injury or illness, is (i) able to perform one or more, but not all, of the essential job functions of his own job on an active employment or a part-time basis; or (ii) able to perform all of the essential job functions of his own job only on a part-time basis. See Virginia Code 51.1-1150
• Participating employee: means any eligible employee required to participate in the program. See Virginia Code 51.1-1150
• Program: means the program providing short-term disability and long-term disability benefits for participating employees established pursuant to this chapter. See Virginia Code 51.1-1150
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• revenue bonds: include notes, bonds, bond anticipation notes, and other obligations of an authority for the payment of money. See Virginia Code 15.2-5101
• Service: means a period of service as a participating employee. See Virginia Code 51.1-1150
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• System: means any sewage disposal system, sewer system, stormwater control system, water or waste system, and for authorities created under Article 6 (§ Virginia Code 15.2-5101
• Total disability: means a disability that exists (i) during the first 24 months following the occurrence or commencement of an illness or injury if an employee is unable to perform all of his essential job functions or (ii) after 24 months following the occurrence or commencement of an illness or injury if an employee is unable to perform any job for which he is reasonably qualified based on his training or experience and earning less than 80 percent of his predisability earnings. See Virginia Code 51.1-1150
• 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
• Work-related injury: means an injury, as such term is defined in § Virginia Code 51.1-1150