Terms Used In Virginia Code > Title 15.2 > Subtitle IV > Chapter 46 > Article 2 - Boundary Changes for Local Districts.

• advisory board: means the board appointed by the commission in accordance with § Virginia Code 15.2-4602
• Appointing authority: means the General Assembly or the Governor. See Virginia Code 51.1-301
• 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 of supervisors: means the governing body of a county. See Virginia Code 15.2-102
• Commission: means the governing body of the local district. See Virginia Code 15.2-4602
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• County: means Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William Counties. See Virginia Code 15.2-4602
• Creditable service: means prior service plus membership service, as further defined in and modified by § Virginia Code 51.1-301
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Decedent: means any person whose life has been taken as a result of murder or voluntary manslaughter. See Virginia Code 64.2-2500
• Judge: means any justice or judge of a court of record of the Commonwealth, any member of the State Corporation Commission or Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission, any judge of a district court of the Commonwealth other than a substitute judge of such district court, and any executive secretary of the Supreme Court assuming such position between December 1, 1975, and January 31, 1976. See Virginia Code 51.1-301
• local district: means any transportation improvement district created under the provisions of § Virginia Code 15.2-4602
• Normal retirement date: means a member's sixty-fifth birthday. See Virginia Code 51.1-301
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• 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
• Previous systems: means the systems established under the provisions of Chapters 2 (§ 51-3 et seq. See Virginia Code 51.1-301
• Property: includes any real and personal property and any right or interest therein. See Virginia Code 64.2-2500
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• 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.
• Retirement system: means the Judicial Retirement System. See Virginia Code 51.1-301
• Service: means service as a judge. See Virginia Code 51.1-301
• Slayer: means any person (i) who is convicted of the murder or voluntary manslaughter of the decedent or, (ii) in the absence of such conviction, who is determined, whether before or after his death, by a court of appropriate jurisdiction by a preponderance of the evidence to have committed one of the offenses listed in clause (i) resulting in the death of the decedent. See Virginia Code 64.2-2500
• 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
• Supreme Court: means the Supreme Court of Virginia. See Virginia Code 1-249