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This law was first created in 2007. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 676<\/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. It has been modified 3 times. 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. Those modifications are as follows: in 2013, chapter 660<\/a>; in 2015, chapter 741<\/a>; in 2023, chapters 148<\/a> and 149<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":159095,"object_type":"law","relational_id":71913,"identifier":"15.2-5369","token":"15.2\/IV\/53.1\/15.2-5369","url":"\/15.2-5369\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/15.2-5369\/","token":"15.2\/IV\/53.1\/15.2-5369","dublin_core":{"Title":"Definitions","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 15.2-5369","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 any political subdivision, a body politic and corporate, created, organized, and operated pursuant to the provisions of this chapter or, if such Authority<\/span> is abolished, the board, body, authority<\/span>, department, or officer succeeding to the principal functions thereof or to whom the powers given by this chapter are given by law<\/span>.\n\t\t“Bond<\/span>” includes any interest bearing obligation, including promissory notes.\n\t\t“Commissioner<\/span>” means the State Health Commissioner<\/span>.\n\t\t“Cooperative agreement<\/span>” means an agreement among two or more hospitals<\/span> for the sharing, allocation, consolidation<\/span> by merger or other combination of assets<\/span>, or referral of patients, personnel, instructional programs, support services, and facilities or medical, diagnostic, or laboratory facilities or procedures or other services traditionally offered by hospitals<\/span>.\n\t\t“Hospital<\/span>” includes any health center and health provider under common ownership with the hospital<\/span> and means any and all providers of dental, medical, and mental health services, including all related facilities and approaches thereto and appurtenances thereof. Dental, medical, and mental health facilities includes any and all facilities suitable for providing hospital<\/span>, dental, medical, and mental health care, including any and all structures, buildings, improvements, additions, extensions, replacements, appurtenances, lands, rights in lands, franchises, machinery, equipment, furnishing, landscaping, approaches, roadways, and other facilities necessary or desirable in connection therewith or incidental thereto (including, without limitation, hospitals<\/span>, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, continuing care facilities, self-care facilities, mental health facilities, wellness and health maintenance centers, medical office facilities, clinics, outpatient surgical centers, alcohol, substance abuse and drug treatment centers, dental care clinics, laboratories, research facilities, sanitariums, hospices, facilities for the residence or care of elderly or chronically ill individuals or individuals with disabilities, residential facilities for nurses, interns, and physicians and any other kind of facility for the diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, prevention, or palliation of any human illness, injury, disorder, or disability), together with all related and supporting facilities and equipment necessary and desirable in connection therewith or incidental thereto, or equipment alone, including, without limitation, kitchen, laundry, laboratory, wellness, pharmaceutical, administrative, communications, computer and recreational facilities and equipment, storage space, mobile medical facilities, vehicles and other equipment necessary or desirable for the transportation of medical equipment or the transportation of patients. Dental, medical, and mental health facilities also includes facilities for graduate-level instruction in medicine or dentistry and clinics appurtenant thereto offering free or reduced rate dental, medical, or mental health services to the public.\n\t\t“Participating locality<\/span>” means any county<\/span> or city<\/span> in the LENOWISCO or Cumberland Plateau Planning District Commissions and the Counties of Smyth and Washington and the City<\/span> of Bristol with respect to which an authority<\/span> may be organized and in which it is contemplated that the Authority<\/span> will function.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nDEFINITIONS (\u00a7 15.2-5369)\n\nAs used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:\n\t\t“Authority” means any political subdivision, a body politic and\ncorporate, created, organized, and operated pursuant to the provisions of this\nchapter or, if such Authority is abolished, the board, body, authority,\ndepartment, or officer succeeding to the principal functions thereof or to whom\nthe powers given by this chapter are given by law.\n\t\t“Bond” includes any interest bearing obligation, including\npromissory notes.\n\t\t“Commissioner” means the State Health Commissioner.\n\t\t“Cooperative agreement” means an agreement among two or more\nhospitals for the sharing, allocation, consolidation by merger or other\ncombination of assets, or referral of patients, personnel, instructional\nprograms, support services, and facilities or medical, diagnostic, or laboratory\nfacilities or procedures or other services traditionally offered by hospitals.\n\t\t“Hospital” includes any health center and health provider under\ncommon ownership with the hospital and means any and all providers of dental,\nmedical, and mental health services, including all related facilities and\napproaches thereto and appurtenances thereof. Dental, medical, and mental health\nfacilities includes any and all facilities suitable for providing hospital,\ndental, medical, and mental health care, including any and all structures,\nbuildings, improvements, additions, extensions, replacements, appurtenances,\nlands, rights in lands, franchises, machinery, equipment, furnishing,\nlandscaping, approaches, roadways, and other facilities necessary or desirable\nin connection therewith or incidental thereto (including, without limitation,\nhospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, continuing care\nfacilities, self-care facilities, mental health facilities, wellness and health\nmaintenance centers, medical office facilities, clinics, outpatient surgical\ncenters, alcohol, substance abuse and drug treatment centers, dental care\nclinics, laboratories, research facilities, sanitariums, hospices, facilities\nfor the residence or care of elderly or chronically ill individuals or\nindividuals with disabilities, residential facilities for nurses, interns, and\nphysicians and any other kind of facility for the diagnosis, treatment,\nrehabilitation, prevention, or palliation of any human illness, injury,\ndisorder, or disability), together with all related and supporting facilities\nand equipment necessary and desirable in connection therewith or incidental\nthereto, or equipment alone, including, without limitation, kitchen, laundry,\nlaboratory, wellness, pharmaceutical, administrative, communications, computer\nand recreational facilities and equipment, storage space, mobile medical\nfacilities, vehicles and other equipment necessary or desirable for the\ntransportation of medical equipment or the transportation of patients. Dental,\nmedical, and mental health facilities also includes facilities for\ngraduate-level instruction in medicine or dentistry and clinics appurtenant\nthereto offering free or reduced rate dental, medical, or mental health services\nto the public.\n\t\t“Participating locality” means any county or city in the LENOWISCO\nor Cumberland Plateau Planning District Commissions and the Counties of Smyth\nand Washington and the City of Bristol with respect to which an authority may be\norganized and in which it is contemplated that the Authority will function.\n\nHISTORY: 2007, c. 676; 2013, c. 660; 2015, c. 741; 2023, cc. 148, 149.","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}}