{"formats":[{"name":"JSON","format":"json","url":"\/downloads\/2025\/code-json\/30-59.1.json"},{"name":"Plain Text","format":"text","url":"\/downloads\/2025\/code-text\/30-59.1.txt"},{"name":"XML","format":"xml","url":"\/downloads\/2025\/code-xml\/30-59.1.xml"},{"name":"HTML","format":"html","url":"\/downloads\/2025\/code-html\/30-59.1.html"}],"law_id":68470,"edition_id":1,"section_id":68470,"structure_id":13886,"section_number":"30-59.1","catch_line":"State agency defined","history":"1979, c. 731.","full_text":"For the purposes of \u00a7\u00a7 30-58.1 and 30-59, the terms &#8220;state agency,&#8221; &#8220;state agencies,&#8221; &#8220;agency,&#8221; and &#8220;agencies&#8221; shall mean all executive, judicial, and legislative entities of the Commonwealth as well as all constitutionally or statutorily created state entities.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":247894,"text":"For the purposes of \u00a7\u00a7 30-58.1 and 30-59, the terms &#8220;state agency,&#8221; &#8220;state agencies,&#8221; 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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 731 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. 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