Terms Used In Virginia Code > Title 2.2 > Subtitle I > Part C > Chapter 20 - Department of Veterans Services

• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Agricultural activity: means any activity used in the production of food and fiber, including farming, feedlots, grazing livestock, poultry raising, dairy farming, and aquaculture activities. See Virginia Code 3.2-400
• Agricultural operation: means any operation devoted to the bona fide production of crops, animals, or fowl, including the production of fruits and vegetables of all kinds, meat, dairy, and poultry products, nuts, tobacco, nursery, and floral products and the production and harvest of products from silviculture activity. See Virginia Code 3.2-300
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• Anything of value: means :

  1. See Virginia Code 2.2-419

• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Board: means the Soil and Water Conservation Board. See Virginia Code 3.2-400
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Compensation: means :

  1. See Virginia Code 2.2-419

• Council: means the Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council established in § 30-355. See Virginia Code 2.2-419
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Donee: The recipient of a gift.
• Executive action: includes procurement transactions. See Virginia Code 2.2-419
• Executive agency: includes the State Corporation Commission, the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission, and the Virginia Lottery. See Virginia Code 2.2-419
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Fair market value: means the price that a good or service would bring between a willing seller and a willing buyer in the open market after negotiations. See Virginia Code 2.2-419
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Forbearance: A means of handling a delinquent loan. A
• Forestal products: means saw timber, pulpwood, posts, firewood, Christmas trees, and other tree and wood products for sale or for farm use. See Virginia Code 3.2-303
• Fund: means the Governor's Agriculture and Forestry Industries Development Fund established pursuant to § Virginia Code 3.2-303
• Gift: means anything of value, including any gratuity, favor, discount, entertainment, hospitality, loan, forbearance, or other item having monetary value, and includes services as well as gifts of transportation, local travel, lodgings, and meals, whether provided in-kind or by purchase of a ticket, payment in advance, or reimbursement after the expense has been incurred. See Virginia Code 2.2-419
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Immediate family: means (i) the spouse and (ii) any other person who resides in the same household as the executive or legislative official and who is a dependent of the official. See Virginia Code 2.2-419
• Informal fact-finding conference: means an informal fact-finding conference conducted in accordance with § Virginia Code 3.2-400
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Legislative action: means :

  1. See Virginia Code 2.2-419

• Legislative official: means :

  1. See Virginia Code 2.2-419

• Lobbying: means :

  1. See Virginia Code 2.2-419

• Lobbyist: means :

  1. See Virginia Code 2.2-419

• Local government: means :

  1. See Virginia Code 2.2-419

• Local Grant Program: means the Local Food and Farming Infrastructure Grant Program established pursuant to § Virginia Code 3.2-303
• measures: includes : (i) agricultural water quality protection management measures described in the Virginia Agricultural Best Management Practices Manual; and (ii) agricultural water quality protection management measures contained in the U. See Virginia Code 3.2-400
• Operator: means any person who exercises managerial control over any agricultural activity. See Virginia Code 3.2-400
• Owner: means any person who owns land where an agricultural activity occurs. See Virginia Code 3.2-400
• Person: means an individual, proprietorship, firm, partnership, joint venture, joint stock company, syndicate, business trust, estate, company, corporation, association, club, committee, organization, or group of persons acting in concert. See Virginia Code 2.2-419
• plan: means a site-specific plan for an agricultural activity to manage, through use of stewardship measures, one or more of the following: soil, water, plants, plant nutrients, pest controls, wastes, and animals. See Virginia Code 3.2-400
• Planning Grant Program: means the Agriculture and Forestry Industries Development Planning Grant Program established pursuant to § Virginia Code 3.2-303
• Pollution: means any alteration of the physical, chemical, or biological properties of any state waters resulting from sedimentation, nutrients, or toxins. See Virginia Code 3.2-400
• Prevailing average wage: means that amount determined by the Virginia Employment Commission to be the average wage paid workers in the city or county of the Commonwealth where the economic development project is located. See Virginia Code 3.2-303
• principal: means the entity on whose behalf the lobbyist influences or attempts to influence executive or legislative action. See Virginia Code 2.2-419
• Private investment: means the private investment required under this chapter. See Virginia Code 3.2-303
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Secretary: means the Secretary of the Commonwealth. See Virginia Code 2.2-419
• Service-connected: means , with respect to disability, that such disability was incurred or aggravated in the line of duty in the active military, naval, or air service. See Virginia Code 2.2-2000.1
• State waters: means all water, on the surface or in the ground, wholly or partially within or bordering the Commonwealth or within its jurisdiction. See Virginia Code 3.2-400
• Value: means the actual cost or fair market value of an item or items, whichever is greater. See Virginia Code 2.2-419
• Veto: The procedure established under the Constitution by which the President/Governor refuses to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevents its enactment into law. A regular veto occurs when the President/Governor returns the legislation to the house in which it originated. The President/Governor usually returns a vetoed bill with a message indicating his reasons for rejecting the measure. In Congress, the veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House.