Terms Used In Virginia Code > Title 1 > Chapter 2.1 > Article 1 - Common Law and Acts of Parliament.

• Certificate: means a certificate of public convenience and necessity or a certificate of fitness. See Virginia Code 46.2-2000
• Certificate of fitness: means a certificate issued by the Department to a contract passenger carrier, a sight-seeing carrier, a transportation network company, or a nonemergency medical transportation carrier. See Virginia Code 46.2-2000
• 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.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contract passenger carrier: means a motor carrier that transports groups of passengers under a single contract made with one person for an agreed charge for such transportation, regardless of the number of passengers transported, and for which transportation no individual or separate fares are solicited, charged, collected, or received by the carrier. See Virginia Code 46.2-2000
• Department: means the Department of Motor Vehicles. See Virginia Code 46.2-2000
• License: means a license issued by the Department to a broker or a TNC broker. See Virginia Code 46.2-2000
• Permit: means a permit issued by the Department to carriers operating as employee haulers or nonprofit/tax-exempt passenger carriers or to operators of taxicabs or other vehicles performing taxicab service under this chapter. See Virginia Code 46.2-2000
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.