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This law was first created in 1970. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 591 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1970 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 1988, chapter 891.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":144663,"object_type":"law","relational_id":63458,"identifier":"10.1-636","token":"10.1\/I\/6\/4\/10.1-636","url":"\/10.1-636\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/10.1-636\/","token":"10.1\/I\/6\/4\/10.1-636","dublin_core":{"Title":"Definitions","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 10.1-636","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

As used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning:\n\t\t“Board<\/span>” means the Virginia Soil and Water Conservation Board<\/span>.\n\t\t“Facility<\/span>” means any structures, foundations, appurtenances, spillways, lands, easements and rights-of-way necessary to (i) store additional water for immediate or future use in feasible flood prevention sites; (ii) create the potential to store additional water by strengthening the foundations and appurtenances of structures in feasible flood prevention sites; or (iii) store water in sites not feasible for flood prevention programs, and to properly operate and maintain such stores of water or potential stores of water.\n\t\t“Fund” or “revolving fund<\/span>” means the Conservation, Small Watersheds Flood Control and Area Development Fund.\n\t\t“Storing additional water in feasible flood prevention sites<\/span>” means storage of water for other than flood prevention purposes above the capacity of any given structure to hold water for the purpose of flood prevention in flood prevention sites within a flood prevention project having a favorable benefit-cost ratio where it is economically feasible to provide the capacity to store additional water or the potential for additional water storage capacity.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nDEFINITIONS (\u00a7 10.1-636)\n\nAs used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning:\n\t\t“Board” means the Virginia Soil and Water Conservation Board.\n\t\t“Facility” means any structures, foundations, appurtenances,\nspillways, lands, easements and rights-of-way necessary to (i) store additional\nwater for immediate or future use in feasible flood prevention sites; (ii)\ncreate the potential to store additional water by strengthening the foundations\nand appurtenances of structures in feasible flood prevention sites; or (iii)\nstore water in sites not feasible for flood prevention programs, and to properly\noperate and maintain such stores of water or potential stores of water.\n\t\t“Fund” or “revolving fund” means the Conservation,\nSmall Watersheds Flood Control and Area Development Fund.\n\t\t“Storing additional water in feasible flood prevention sites”\nmeans storage of water for other than flood prevention purposes above the\ncapacity of any given structure to hold water for the purpose of flood\nprevention in flood prevention sites within a flood prevention project having a\nfavorable benefit-cost ratio where it is economically feasible to provide the\ncapacity to store additional water or the potential for additional water storage\ncapacity.\n\nHISTORY: 1970, c. 591, \u00a7 21-11.2; 1988, c. 891.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}