10.1-705 - Definitions. - Virginia Statutes

§ 10.1-705. Definitions.

As used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning:

"Agency of this Commonwealth" includes the government of this Commonwealthand any subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, ofthe government of this Commonwealth.

"Board" means the Board of Conservation and Recreation.

"Develop" or "development" means the replenishment and restoration ofexisting public beaches.

"Erosion" means the process of destruction by the action of wind, water, orice of the land bordering the tidal waters of the Commonwealth.

"Government" or "governmental" includes the government of thisCommonwealth, the government of the United States, and any subdivision,agency, or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of either of them.

"Locality" means a county, city or town.

"Program" means the provisions of the Public Beach Conservation andDevelopment Act.

"Public beach" means a sandy beach located on a tidal shoreline suitablefor bathing in a county, city or town and open to indefinite public use.

"Reach" means a shoreline segment wherein there is mutual interaction ofthe forces of erosion, sediment transport and accretion.

"United States" or "agencies of the United States" includes the UnitedStates of America, the United States Department of Agriculture, and any otheragency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the United States ofAmerica.

(1980, c. 428, § 10-217; 1984, c. 750; 1985, c. 448; 1988, c. 891; 2003, cc.79, 89.)