Terms Used In Virginia Code > Title 40.1 > Chapter 9 - Industrial Hygiene and Safety Profession Title Protection Act

• ABIH: means a nonprofit corporation established to improve the practice and educational standards of the profession of industrial hygiene by certifying individuals who meet its education, experience, examination and maintenance requirements. See Virginia Code 40.1-139
• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• Affordable housing: means , as a guideline, housing that is affordable to households with incomes at or below the area median income, provided that the occupant pays no more than thirty percent of his gross income for gross housing costs, including utilities. See Virginia Code 15.2-2201
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• BCSP: means a nonprofit corporation established to improve the practice and educational standards of the safety profession by certifying individuals who meet its education, experience, examination, and maintenance requirements. See Virginia Code 40.1-139
• Board: means the Safety and Health Codes Board. See Virginia Code 40.1-2
• Chief judge: The judge who has primary responsibility for the administration of a court but also decides cases; chief judges are determined by seniority.
• Commissioner of the revenue: means the same as that set forth in § Virginia Code 58.1-3523
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the Department of Labor and Industry. See Virginia Code 40.1-2
• Department: means the Department of Taxation. See Virginia Code 58.1-1
• Department: means the Department of Motor Vehicles. See Virginia Code 58.1-3523
• Development: means a tract of land developed or to be developed as a unit under single ownership or unified control which is to be used for any business or industrial purpose or is to contain three or more residential dwelling units. See Virginia Code 15.2-2201
• Employee: means any person who, in consideration of wages, salaries or commissions, may be permitted, required or directed by any employer to engage in any employment directly or indirectly. See Virginia Code 40.1-2
• Governing body: means the board of supervisors of a county, council of a city, or council of a town, as the context may require. See Virginia Code 15.2-102
• Industrial Hygiene: means the science and art devoted to the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, and control of environmental factors and stresses arising in or from the workplace that may cause sickness, impaired health and well-being, or significant discomfort among workers, and that may also affect the workplace's community. See Virginia Code 40.1-139
• Leased: means leased by a natural person as lessee and used for nonbusiness purposes. See Virginia Code 58.1-3523
• Local planning commission: means a municipal planning commission or a county planning commission. See Virginia Code 15.2-2201
• Official map: means a map of legally established and proposed public streets, waterways, and public areas adopted by a locality in accordance with the provisions of Article 4 (§ Virginia Code 15.2-2201
• Privately owned: means owned by a natural person and used for nonbusiness purposes. See Virginia Code 58.1-3523
• Public facilities: means public transportation facilities, public safety facilities, public school facilities, or public parks. See Virginia Code 15.2-2303.4
• Qualifying vehicle: means any passenger car, motorcycle, autocycle, and pickup or panel truck, as those terms are defined in § Virginia Code 58.1-3523
• Safety Profession: means the science and discipline concerned with the preservation of human and material resources through the systematic application of principles drawn from technological advancements in the fields of education, design, chemistry, the physical and biological sciences, ergonomics, psychology, physiology, and management for anticipating, identifying and evaluating potentially hazardous systems, conditions and practices, and for developing, implementing, administering, and advising others on hazard control design, methods, procedures, and programs. See Virginia Code 40.1-139
• Tangible personal property tax: means the tax levied pursuant to Article 1 (§ Virginia Code 58.1-3523
• Treasurer: means the same as that set forth in § Virginia Code 58.1-3523
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Used for nonbusiness purposes: means the preponderance of use is for other than business purposes. See Virginia Code 58.1-3523