Terms Used In Virginia Code > Title 10.1 > Subtitle II > Chapter 14 > Article 3.1 - . Lead Acid Batteries.

• 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.
• At-need: means at the time of death or while death is imminent. See Virginia Code 54.1-2310
• Board: means the Board of Housing and Community Development. See Virginia Code 36-71.1
• Board: means the Cemetery Board. See Virginia Code 54.1-2310
• Cemetery: means any land or structure used or intended to be used for the interment of human remains. See Virginia Code 54.1-2310
• Cemetery company: means any person engaged in the business of (i) selling or offering for sale any grave or entombment right in a cemetery and representing to the public that the entire cemetery, a single grave, or entombment right therein will be perpetually cared for; (ii) selling property or services, vaults, grave liners, urns, memorials, markers, and monuments used in connection with interring or disposing of the remains or commemorating the memory of a deceased human being, where delivery of the property or performance of the service may be delayed more than 120 days after receipt of the initial payment on account of such sale; or (iii) maintaining a facility used for the interment or disposal of the remains and required to maintain perpetual care or preneed trust funds in accordance with this chapter. See Virginia Code 54.1-2310
• Compliance agent: means a natural person who owns or is employed by a cemetery company to assure the compliance of the cemetery company with the provisions of this chapter. See Virginia Code 54.1-2310
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Department: means the Department of Housing and Community Development. See Virginia Code 36-71.1
• Department: means the Department of Environmental Quality. See Virginia Code 10.1-1400
• 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.
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Garden crypt: means a burial receptacle, usually constructed of reinforced concrete, installed in quantity on gravel or tile underlay. See Virginia Code 54.1-2310
• Grave: means a below-ground right of interment. See Virginia Code 54.1-2310
• In-person communication: means face-to-face communication and telephonic communication. See Virginia Code 54.1-2310
• Industrialized building: means a combination of one or more sections or modules, subject to state regulations and including the necessary electrical, plumbing, heating, ventilating and other service systems, manufactured off-site and transported to the point of use for installation or erection, with or without other specified components, to comprise a finished building. See Virginia Code 36-71.1
• lead acid battery: shall mean any wet cell battery. See Virginia Code 10.1-1425.1
• Mausoleum crypt: means a burial receptacle usually constructed of reinforced concrete and usually constructed or assembled above the ground and is considered real property. See Virginia Code 54.1-2310
• Month: means a calendar month and "year" means a calendar year. See Virginia Code 1-223
• Perpetual care trust fund: means a fund created to provide income to a cemetery to provide care, maintenance, administration and embellishment of the cemetery. See Virginia Code 54.1-2310
• Person: includes an individual, corporation, partnership, association, governmental body, municipal corporation, or any other legal entity. See Virginia Code 10.1-1400
• Preneed: means at any time other than either at the time of death or while death is imminent. See Virginia Code 54.1-2310
• Preneed burial contract: means a contract for the sale of property or services used in connection with interring or disposing of the remains or commemorating the memory of a deceased human being, where delivery of the property or performance of the service may be delayed for more than 120 days after the receipt of initial payment on account of such sale. See Virginia Code 54.1-2310
• Registered: means that an industrialized building displays a registration seal issued by the Department of Housing and Community Development. See Virginia Code 36-71.1
• Seller: means the cemetery company. See Virginia Code 54.1-2310
• Solicitation: means initiating contact with consumers with the intent of influencing their selection of a cemetery. See Virginia Code 54.1-2310
• Solid waste: means any garbage, refuse, sludge, and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material, resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations, or community activities, but does not include (i) solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage; (ii) solid or dissolved material in irrigation return flows or in industrial discharges that are sources subject to a permit from the State Water Control Board; (iii) source, special nuclear, or by-product material as defined by the Federal Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended; or (iv) post-use polymers or recovered feedstocks that are (a) processed at an advanced recycling facility or (b) held at or held for the purpose of conversion at such advanced recycling facility prior to conversion. See Virginia Code 10.1-1400
• 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
• this law: means the Virginia Industrialized Building Safety Law as provided in this chapter. See Virginia Code 36-71.1
• Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• 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