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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>72449</law_id><section_number>18.2-493</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="18.2">Crimes and Offenses Generally</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="12">Miscellaneous</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">Liquefied Petroleum Gas Containers</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Liquefied petroleum gas</span>&#x201D; means any <span class="dictionary">material</span> that is composed predominately of any of the following hydrocarbons or mixtures of the same: propane, propylene, butanes (normal butane and isobutane) and butylenes.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Owner</span>&#x201D; means any <span class="dictionary">person</span> who holds a written bill of sale under which title or ownership to a container was transferred to such <span class="dictionary">person</span>, or any manufacturer of a container who has not sold or transferred ownership thereof by written bill of sale.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Person</span>&#x201D; means any <span class="dictionary">person</span>, firm, or corporation.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Qualifying emergency</span>&#x201D; means (i) a state of emergency as declared by the Governor pursuant to Chapter 3.2 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Short title" href="/44-146.13/">44-146.13</a> et seq.) of Title 44; (ii) a local emergency as declared by the local director of emergency management with the consent of the governing body of the political subdivision pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Declaration of local emergency" href="/44-146.21/">44-146.21</a>; (iii) a state of emergency as declared by the President of the United States; (iv) when severe weather or other similar circumstances exist that may result in a <span class="dictionary">person</span> being placed in imminent danger of death or injury or may result in a building or its fixtures being at risk of significant damage due to lack of heat caused by the lack of sufficient <span class="dictionary">liquefied petroleum gas</span> to produce such heat; or (v) when a <span class="dictionary">waiver</span> from delivery limitations affecting the delivery of <span class="dictionary">liquefied petroleum gas</span> has been ordered.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 18.1-400.1; 1970, c. 442; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 2023, c. 531.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
