Virginia § 23.1-1100 - Definitions
Full text of Virginia Code of Virginia § 23.1-1100 — Definitions, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 23.1-1100. Definitions
As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
"Board" means the members of the board of visitors, board of trustees, or other governing board of an institution.
"Bond" means any bond, note, or other evidence of indebtedness or obligation of an institution issued by an institution pursuant to this chapter.
"Erect" includes building, constructing, reconstructing, erecting, demolishing, extending, bettering, equipping, installing, modifying, and improving.
"Institution" means each public institution of higher education, as that term is defined in § 23.1-100, the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research, the New College Institute, the Roanoke Higher Education Authority, the Southern Virginia Higher Education Center, the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center, the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind, and the Wilson Workforce and Rehabilitation Center.
"Project" means (i) any (a) building, facility, addition, extension, or improvement of a capital nature that is necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes of an institution, including administration and teaching facilities, lecture and exhibition halls, libraries, dormitories, student apartments, faculty dwellings, dining halls, cafeterias, snack bars, laundries, hospitals, laboratories, research centers, infirmaries, field houses, gymnasiums, auditoriums, student unions, recreation centers, stadiums, athletics facilities, garages, parking facilities, warehouses and storage buildings, and book and student supplies centers, or (b) building, land, appurtenance, furnishing, or equipment necessary or desirable in connection with or incidental to a project or (ii) any personal property at an institution.
1933, p. 83, § 23-15; 1946, p. 184; 1964, c. 635; 1996, cc. 672, 689; 2016, c. 588; 2023, cc. 756, 778.
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