Terms Used In Virginia Code > Title 62.1 > Chapter 5.5 - Roanoke River Basin Bi-State Commission

• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• 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 Solar Energy Development and Energy Storage Authority established pursuant to this article. See Virginia Code 45.2-1901
• Basin: means the Roanoke River Basin. See Virginia Code 62.1-69.36
• Board: means the Clean Energy Advisory Board created pursuant to § Virginia Code 45.2-1912
• 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
• Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying. The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fund: means the Low-to-Moderate Income Solar Loan and Rebate Fund created pursuant to § Virginia Code 45.2-1912
• Includes: means includes, but not limited to. See Virginia Code 1-218
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Process: includes subpoenas, the summons and complaint in a civil action, and process in statutory actions. See Virginia Code 1-237
• Program: means the Low-to-Moderate Income Solar Loan and Rebate Pilot Program created pursuant to § Virginia Code 45.2-1912
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Roanoke River Basin: means that land area designated as the Roanoke River Basin by the Virginia State Water Control Board, pursuant to § Virginia Code 62.1-69.36
• Solar energy project: means an electric generation facility located within the Commonwealth and includes interests in land, improvements, and ancillary facilities. See Virginia Code 45.2-1901
• 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