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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>83939</law_id><section_number>22.1-319</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>22.1-26</reference><reference>22.1-299</reference><reference>54.1-3408</reference><reference>8.01-225</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="22.1">Education</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="16">Schools for Students With Disabilities</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this chapter unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Board</span>&#x201D; means the Virginia <span class="dictionary">Board</span> of Education.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Department</span>&#x201D; means the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> of Education.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Person</span>&#x201D; means any individual, group of individuals, partnership, association, business trust, corporation, or other business entity.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">School for students with disabilities</span>&#x201D; or &#x201C;school&#x201D; or &#x201C;<span class="dictionary"><span class="dictionary">schools</span></span>&#x201D; means a privately owned and operated preschool, school, or educational organization, no matter how titled, maintained or conducting classes for the purpose of offering instruction for a consideration, profit, or tuition to <span class="dictionary">persons</span> determined to have autism, deaf-blindness, a developmental delay, <span class="dictionary">hearing</span> loss including deafness, intellectual disability, multiple disabilities, an orthopedic impairment, other health impairment, an emotional disturbance, a severe disability, a specific learning disability, a speech or language impairment, a traumatic brain injury, or a visual impairment including blindness.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Superintendent</span>&#x201D; means the <span class="dictionary">Superintendent</span> of Public Instruction.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 22-330.17; 1970, c. 665; 1972, c. 523; 1974, c. 303; 1977, c. 444; 1980, c. 559; 1988, c. 574; 1993, c. 351; 1996, cc. 691, 832; 2004, c. 991; 2012, cc. 476, 507; 2019, c. 288.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
