Terms Used In Virginia Code > Title 29.1 > Chapter 7 - Boating Laws

• Agreement: means the same as that term is defined in subdivision (b)(3) of § Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Association: means a savings and loan association or building and loan association that is authorized by law to accept deposits and to hold itself out to the public as engaged in the savings and loan business. See Virginia Code 6.2-1100
• Barge: means a watercraft that is not self-propelled or fitted for propulsion by sail, paddle, oar, or similar device. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Board: means the Commonwealth Transportation Board. See Virginia Code 33.2-100
• Buyer: means a person that buys or contracts to buy a watercraft. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Buyer in ordinary course of business: means the same as that term is defined in subdivision (b)(9) of § Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Certificate of origin: means a record created by a manufacturer or importer as the manufacturer's or importer's proof of identity of a watercraft. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Certificate of title: means a record, created by the Department under this article or by a governmental agency of another jurisdiction under the law of that jurisdiction that is designated as a certificate of title by the Department or agency and is evidence of ownership of a watercraft. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Commission: means the governing body of a local transportation improvement district created pursuant to this chapter. See Virginia Code 33.2-2100
• Consumer goods: means the same as that term is defined in subdivision (a)(23) of § Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• County: means any county having a population of more than 500,000. See Virginia Code 33.2-2100
• Dealer: means any watercraft dealer as defined in § Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Debtor: means the same as that term is defined in subdivision (a)(28) of § Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• District: means any transportation improvement district created pursuant to this chapter. See Virginia Code 33.2-2100
• Documented vessel: means a watercraft covered by a certificate of documentation issued pursuant to Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Electronic: means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Electronic certificate of title: means a certificate of title consisting of information that is stored solely in an electronic medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• 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.
• Foreign-documented vessel: means a watercraft whose ownership is recorded in a registry maintained by a country other than the United States that identifies each person that has an ownership interest in a watercraft and includes a unique alphanumeric designation for the watercraft. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• 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
• Good faith: means honesty in fact and the observance of reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Governing body: means the governing body of a county. See Virginia Code 33.2-2100
• Highway: means the entire width between the boundary lines of every way or place open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel in the Commonwealth. See Virginia Code 33.2-100
• highway construction: means highway, passenger and freight rail, or public transportation purposes. See Virginia Code 33.2-100
• Hull damaged: means compromised with respect to the integrity of a watercraft's hull by a collision, allision, lightning strike, fire, explosion, running aground, or similar occurrence, or the sinking of a watercraft in a manner that creates a significant risk to the integrity of the watercraft's hull. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Hull identification number: means the alphanumeric designation assigned to a watercraft pursuant to Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Knowledge: means the same as that term is defined in § Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• landowner: means the person that is assessed with real property taxes pursuant to § Virginia Code 33.2-2100
• Lease: means the same as that term is defined in subdivision (1)(j) of § Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
• Lessor: means the same as that term is defined in subdivision (1)(p) of § Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Locality: has the meaning assigned to it in § 1-221. See Virginia Code 33.2-100
• Month: means a calendar month and "year" means a calendar year. See Virginia Code 1-223
• Motorboat: means any vessel propelled by machinery whether or not the machinery is the principal source of propulsion. See Virginia Code 29.1-700
• No wake: means operation of a motorboat at the slowest possible speed required to maintain steerage and headway. See Virginia Code 29.1-700
• Notice: means the same as that term is defined in § Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Operate: means to navigate or otherwise control the movement of a motorboat or a vessel. See Virginia Code 29.1-700
• Owner: means a person, other than a lien holder, having the property in or title to a motorboat. See Virginia Code 29.1-700
• Owner: means a person that has legal title to a watercraft. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Owner of record: means the owner indicated in the files of the Department or, if the files indicate more than one owner, the one first indicated. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Participating town: means a town that has real property within its boundaries included within a district created pursuant to this chapter. See Virginia Code 33.2-2100
• Person: means any individual, corporation, partnership, association, cooperative, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, government, political subdivision, or other legal or commercial entity. See Virginia Code 6.2-100
• Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, statutory trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Personal watercraft: means a motorboat less than sixteen feet in length which uses an inboard motor powering a jet pump, as its primary motive power and which is designed to be operated by a person sitting, standing, or kneeling on, rather than in the conventional manner of sitting or standing inside, the vessel. See Virginia Code 29.1-700
• Public corporation: means the Commonwealth of Virginia or any political subdivision thereof or any incorporated municipality therein or any public agency of the Commonwealth or of any political subdivision thereof or of any municipality therein. See Virginia Code 1-219.1
• Purchase: means to take by sale, lease, mortgage, pledge, consensual lien, security interest, gift, or any other voluntary transaction that creates an interest in a watercraft. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Purchaser: means a person that takes by purchase. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• real estate: includes lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights and appurtenances thereto and interests therein, other than a chattel interest. See Virginia Code 1-219
• Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Registration number: means the alphanumeric designation for a vessel issued pursuant to Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Representative: means the same as that term is defined in subdivision (b)(33) of § Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Revenue: means any or all fees, tolls, rents, receipts, assessments, taxes, money, and income derived by the district, including any cash contribution or payments made to the district by the Commonwealth, any political subdivision thereof, or any other source. See Virginia Code 33.2-2100
• Sale: means the same as that term is defined in § Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Savings institution: means a savings and loan association, a building and loan association, or savings bank, whether organized as a capital stock corporation or a nonstock corporation, that is authorized by law to accept deposits and to hold itself out to the public as engaged in the savings institution business. See Virginia Code 6.2-1100
• Secured party of record: means the secured party whose name is indicated as the name of the secured party in the files of the Department or, if the files indicate more than one secured party, the one first indicated. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Security interest: means an interest in a watercraft that secures payment or performance of an obligation if the interest is created by contract or arises under § Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Seller: means the same as that term is defined in subdivision (1)(o) of § Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Send: means the same as that term is defined in subdivision (b)(36) of § Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Sign: means , with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record, to:

  1. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2

• State: includes District of Columbia;

  (f) "Transit facilities" means all real and personal property located in the Zone, necessary or useful in rendering transit service between points within the Zone, by means of rail, bus, water or air and any other mode of travel, including, without limitation, tracks, rights-of-way, bridges, tunnels, subways, rolling stock for rail, motor vehicle, marine and air transportation, stations, terminals and ports, areas for parking and all equipment, fixtures, buildings and structures and services incidental to or required in connection with the performance of transit service;

  (g) "Transit services" means the transportation of persons and their packages and baggage by means of transit facilities between points within the Zone including the transportation of newspapers, express and mail between such points, and charter service which originates within the Zone but does not include taxicab service or individual-ticket-sales sightseeing operations;

  (h) "Transit Zone" or "Zone" means the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Zone created and described in Section 3 as well as any additional area that may be added pursuant to Section 83(a) of this Compact; and

  (i) "WMATC" means Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commission. See Virginia Code 33.2-3100

• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• state agency: means the same as that term is defined in § Virginia Code 1-206
• State of principal use: means the state on whose waters a watercraft is or will be used, operated, navigated, or employed more than on the waters of any other state during a calendar year. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Title brand: means a designation of previous damage, use, or condition that shall be indicated on a certificate of title. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Transfer of ownership: means a voluntary or involuntary conveyance of an interest in a watercraft. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Transportation improvements: includes public mass transit systems, public highways, and all buildings, structures, approaches, and facilities thereof and appurtenances thereto, rights-of-way, bridges, tunnels, stations, terminals, and all related equipment and fixtures. See Virginia Code 33.2-2100
• Value: means the same as that term is defined in § Virginia Code 29.1-733.2
• Vessel: means every description of watercraft, other than a seaplane on the water, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water. See Virginia Code 29.1-700
• Watercraft: means any vessel that is used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water and is propelled by machinery, whether or not the machinery is the principal source of propulsion, except:

  1. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2

• Written certificate of title: means a certificate of title consisting of information inscribed on a tangible medium. See Virginia Code 29.1-733.2