Terms Used In Virginia Code > Title 30 > Chapter 38 - Virginia Housing Commission

• 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.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Authority: means the Virginia Nuclear Energy Consortium Authority established pursuant to this chapter. See Virginia Code 45.2-2100
• Basin: means the Roanoke River Basin. See Virginia Code 62.1-69.36
• Board: means the Virginia Soil and Water Conservation Board. See Virginia Code 10.1-500
• Board: means the State Water Control Board. See Virginia Code 45.2-2000
• Board: means the board of directors of the Authority. See Virginia Code 45.2-2100
• Board: means the Clean Energy Advisory Board created pursuant to § Virginia Code 45.2-1912
• Chief: means the Chief of the Division of Mines of the Department of Energy. See Virginia Code 45.2-100
• Consortium: means the Virginia Nuclear Energy Consortium established by the Authority pursuant to § Virginia Code 45.2-2100
• dam: as used in this chapter is intended to include the appurtenant pondage area or any part thereof. See Virginia Code 62.1-84
• Department: means the Department of Conservation and Recreation. See Virginia Code 10.1-100
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Ex officio: means service by virtue of one's office and includes voting privileges for ex officio members unless otherwise provided. See Virginia Code 1-215
• Exploration activity: means and is limited to the drilling of test holes or stratigraphic or core holes of a depth in excess of 50 feet for the purpose of determining the location, quantity, or quality of uranium ore. See Virginia Code 45.2-2108
• Fund: means the Low-to-Moderate Income Solar Loan and Rebate Fund created pursuant to § Virginia Code 45.2-1912
• Geothermal resource: means the natural heat of the earth and the energy, in whatever form, that is present in, associated with, or created by, or that may be extracted from, such natural heat, as determined by the regulations of the Department. See Virginia Code 45.2-2000
• Geothermal system: means any aquifer, pool, reservoir, or other geologic formation containing geothermal resources. See Virginia Code 45.2-2000
• Member: means a member of the Consortium. See Virginia Code 45.2-2100
• Nonlegislative citizen member: means any natural person who is not a member of the General Assembly of Virginia. See Virginia Code 1-225
• Person: means any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, association, or other legal entity. See Virginia Code 45.2-2108
• Program: means the Low-to-Moderate Income Solar Loan and Rebate Pilot Program created pursuant to § Virginia Code 45.2-1912
• 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.
• Rivanna River Basin: means that land area designated as the Rivanna River Basin by the State Water Control Board pursuant to § Virginia Code 62.1-69.45
• 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
• Usable quality water: means groundwater that is used or can be used for a beneficial purpose, including a domestic, livestock, or irrigation use. See Virginia Code 45.2-2108
• waters of the Commonwealth: as used in this chapter shall mean: (a) Any stream or that portion of any stream in this Commonwealth which prior to June 21, 1932, has been declared navigable by any unrepealed statute of this Commonwealth, or (b) any stream or that portion of any stream in this Commonwealth, the bed of which is owned by the Commonwealth, or (c) those parts of streams or other bodies of water in this Commonwealth which either in their natural or improved condition, notwithstanding interruptions between the navigable parts of such streams or waters by falls, shallows, or rapids, compelling land carriage, are used or suitable for use for the transportation of persons or property in interstate or foreign commerce, including therein all such interrupting falls, shallows or rapids, and also any stream or part thereof in this Commonwealth other than those above mentioned in this subdivision in which the construction of any dam or works as authorized by this chapter would affect the interests of interstate or foreign commerce, or (d) that portion of any river or stream flowing between the high-water mark on the Virginia shore and the low-water mark when such low-water mark constitutes the boundary line between Virginia and another state. See Virginia Code 62.1-81