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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>58955</law_id><section_number>15.2-2419</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="15.2">Counties, Cities and Towns</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Powers of Local Government</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="24.2">Virginia Broadband Infrastructure Loan Fund</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Authority</span>&#x201D; means the Virginia Resources <span class="dictionary">Authority</span> created in Chapter 21 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Short title" href="/62.1-197/">62.1-197</a> et seq.) of Title 62.1.
		&#x201C;Cost,&#x201D; as applied to any <span class="dictionary">project</span> financed under the provisions of this chapter, means the total of all costs incurred by the <span class="dictionary">local government</span> as reasonable and necessary for carrying out all works and undertakings necessary or incident to the accomplishment of any <span class="dictionary">project</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Fund</span>&#x201D; means the Virginia Broadband Infrastructure Loan <span class="dictionary">Fund</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Local government</span>&#x201D; means any <span class="dictionary">county</span>, <span class="dictionary">city</span>, <span class="dictionary">town</span>, municipal corporation, <span class="dictionary">authority</span>, district, commission, or political subdivision created by the General Assembly or pursuant to the Constitution or <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of the Commonwealth.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Project</span>&#x201D; means any undertaking by a <span class="dictionary">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></text><history>2009, c. 131.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
