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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?951+ful+CHAP0758\">758<\/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 2 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 2001, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?011+ful+CHAP0844\">844<\/a>; in 2012, chapters <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?121+ful+CHAP0779\">779<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?121+ful+CHAP0817\">817<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":63840,"section_number":"58.1-423","catch_line":"Income tax paid by commercial spaceflight entities","order_by":null,"url":"\/58.1-423\/"}],"refers_to":[{"id":86402,"section_number":"2.2-2202","catch_line":"Declaration of public purpose; Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority created","order_by":null,"url":"\/2.2-2202\/"}],"permalink":{"id":174149,"object_type":"law","relational_id":76603,"identifier":"2.2-2201","token":"2.2\/I\/D\/22\/2\/2.2-2201","url":"\/2.2-2201\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/2.2-2201\/","token":"2.2\/I\/D\/22\/2\/2.2-2201","dublin_core":{"Title":"Short title; definitions","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 2.2-2201","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"A\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">A.<\/span> This article shall be known and may be cited as the &#8220;Virginia Commercial Space Flight <span class=\"dictionary\">Authority<\/span> Act.&#8221; <a id=\"paragraph-275001\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/2.2-2201\/#A\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"B\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">B.<\/span> As used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning:\n\t\t\t&#8220;<span class=\"dictionary\">Authority<\/span>&#8221; means the Virginia Commercial Space Flight <span class=\"dictionary\">Authority<\/span>.\n\t\t\t&#8220;<span class=\"dictionary\">Board<\/span>&#8221; means the <span class=\"dictionary\">board<\/span> of directors of the <span class=\"dictionary\">Authority<\/span>.\n\t\t\t&#8220;<span class=\"dictionary\">Project<\/span>&#8221; means the construction, improvement, furnishing, maintenance, acquisition or operation of any facility or the provision for or funding of any activity that will further the purposes described in &#xA7; <a class=\"law\" title=\"Declaration of public purpose; Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority created\" href=\"\/2.2-2202\/\">2.2-2202<\/a>. <a id=\"paragraph-275002\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/2.2-2201\/#B\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nSHORT TITLE; DEFINITIONS (\u00a7 2.2-2201)\n\nA. 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