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This law was first created in 2009. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 131<\/a> 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.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":85141,"section_number":"62.1-197","catch_line":"Short title","order_by":null,"url":"\/62.1-197\/"}],"permalink":{"id":155783,"object_type":"law","relational_id":58955,"identifier":"15.2-2419","token":"15.2\/II\/24.2\/15.2-2419","url":"\/15.2-2419\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/15.2-2419\/","token":"15.2\/II\/24.2\/15.2-2419","dublin_core":{"Title":"Definitions","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 15.2-2419","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:\n\t\t“Authority<\/span>” means the Virginia Resources Authority<\/span> created in Chapter 21 (\u00a7 62.1-197<\/a> et seq.) of Title 62.1.\n\t\t“Cost,” as applied to any project<\/span> financed under the provisions of this chapter, means the total of all costs incurred by the local government<\/span> as reasonable and necessary for carrying out all works and undertakings necessary or incident to the accomplishment of any project<\/span>.\n\t\t“Fund<\/span>” means the Virginia Broadband Infrastructure Loan Fund<\/span>.\n\t\t“Local government<\/span>” means any county<\/span>, city<\/span>, town<\/span>, municipal corporation, authority<\/span>, district, commission, or political subdivision created by the General Assembly or pursuant to the Constitution or laws<\/span> of the Commonwealth.\n\t\t“Project<\/span>” means any undertaking by a local government<\/span> to build or facilitate the building of broadband infrastructure, including wireless broadband infrastructure which will provide broadband services only to areas within the Commonwealth which are currently unserved by broadband services.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nDEFINITIONS (\u00a7 15.2-2419)\n\nAs used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:\n\t\t“Authority” means the Virginia Resources Authority created in\nChapter 21 (\u00a7 62.1-197 et seq.) of Title 62.1.\n\t\t“Cost,” as applied to any project financed under the provisions of\nthis chapter, means the total of all costs incurred by the local government as\nreasonable and necessary for carrying out all works and undertakings necessary\nor incident to the accomplishment of any project.\n\t\t“Fund” means the Virginia Broadband Infrastructure Loan Fund.\n\t\t“Local government” means any county, city, town, municipal\ncorporation, authority, district, commission, or political subdivision created\nby the General Assembly or pursuant to the Constitution or laws of the\nCommonwealth.\n\t\t“Project” means any undertaking by a local government to build or\nfacilitate the building of broadband infrastructure, including wireless\nbroadband infrastructure which will provide broadband services only to areas\nwithin the Commonwealth which are currently unserved by broadband services.\n\nHISTORY: 2009, c. 131.","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}}