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This law was first created in 2002. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 883<\/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 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 2019, chapter 712<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":248137,"object_type":"law","relational_id":61877,"identifier":"55.1-2600","token":"55.1\/V\/26\/55.1-2600","url":"\/55.1-2600\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/55.1-2600\/","token":"55.1\/V\/26\/55.1-2600","dublin_core":{"Title":"Definitions","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 55.1-2600","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“Loaned property<\/span>” means all museum property<\/span> deposited on or after July 1, 2002, with a museum not accompanied by a transfer of title to the property.\n\t\t“Museum” means an institution located in the Commonwealth and operated by a nonprofit corporation or public agency whose primary purpose is educational, scientific, or aesthetic and that owns, borrows, or cares for and studies, archives, or exhibits museum property<\/span>.\n\t\t“Museum property<\/span>” means all tangible objects<\/span>, animate and inanimate, under a museum’s care that have intrinsic value to science, history, art, or culture, except for botanical or zoological specimens loaned to a museum for scientific research.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nDEFINITIONS (\u00a7 55.1-2600)\n\nAs used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:\n\t\t“Loaned property” means all museum property deposited on or after\nJuly 1, 2002, with a museum not accompanied by a transfer of title to the\nproperty.\n\t\t“Museum” means an institution located in the Commonwealth and\noperated by a nonprofit corporation or public agency whose primary purpose is\neducational, scientific, or aesthetic and that owns, borrows, or cares for and\nstudies, archives, or exhibits museum property.\n\t\t“Museum property” means all tangible objects, animate and\ninanimate, under a museum’s care that have intrinsic value to science,\nhistory, art, or culture, except for botanical or zoological specimens loaned to\na museum for scientific research.\n\nHISTORY: 2002, c. 883, \u00a7 55-210.31; 2019, c. 712.","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}}