55-210.31 - Definitions. - Virginia Statutes

§ 55-210.31. Definitions.

As used in this chapter:

"Loaned property" means all museum property deposited on or after July 1,2002, with a museum not accompanied by a transfer of title to the property.

"Museum" means an institution located in Virginia and operated by anonprofit corporation or public agency whose primary purpose is educational,scientific or aesthetic, that owns, borrows or cares for, and studies,archives or exhibits museum property.

"Museum property" means all tangible objects, animate and inanimate, undera museum's care that have intrinsic value to science, history, art orculture, except for botanical or zoological specimens loaned to a museum forscientific research.

(2002, c. 883.)