18.2-446 - Definitions. - Virginia Statutes

§ 18.2-446. Definitions.

The following words and phrases when used in this article shall have themeanings respectively ascribed to them in this section except where thecontext clearly requires a different meaning:

(1) "Benefits" means a gain or advantage, or anything regarded by thebeneficiary as a gain or advantage, including a benefit to any other personor entity in whose welfare he is interested, but shall not mean an advantagepromised generally to a group or class of voters as a consequence of publicmeasures which a candidate engages to support or oppose;

(2) "Party official" means a person who holds an elective or appointivepost in a political party in the United States by virtue of which he directsor conducts, or participates in directing or conducting party affairs at anylevel of responsibility;

(3) "Pecuniary benefit" means a benefit in the form of money, property,commercial interest or anything else the primary significance of which iseconomic gain;

(4) "Public servant" means any officer or employee of this Commonwealth orany political subdivision thereof, including members of the General Assemblyand judges, and any person participating as a juror, advisor, consultant orotherwise, in performing any governmental function; but the term does notinclude witnesses;

(5) "Administrative proceeding" means any proceeding other than a judicialproceeding, the outcome of which is required to be based on a record ordocumentation prescribed by law including specifically, but not limited to,proceedings before a planning commission and board of zoning appeals.

(Code 1950, § 18.1-282.1; 1968, c. 552; 1975, cc. 14, 15.)