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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>60222</law_id><section_number>54.1-2112</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>54.1-2114</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="54.1">Professions and Occupations</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Professions and Occupations Regulated by the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation and Boards Within the Department</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="21">Real Estate Brokers, Sales Persons and Rental Location Agents</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2">Virginia Real Estate Transaction Recovery Act</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Act</span>&#x201D; means the Virginia Real Estate Transaction Recovery <span class="dictionary">Act</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Balance of the fund</span>&#x201D; means cash, securities that are legal investments for fiduciaries under the provisions of subdivisions A 1, 2, and 4 of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Investment of funds by the Virginia Housing Development Authority and the Virginia Resources Authority" href="/2.2-4519/">2.2-4519</a>, and repurchase agreements secured by obligations of the United States government or any agency thereof, and shall not mean accounts receivable, <span class="dictionary">judgments</span>, notes, accrued interest, or other obligations payable to the fund.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Board</span>&#x201D; means the Real Estate <span class="dictionary">Board</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Claimant</span>&#x201D; means any person with an unsatisfied <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> against a <span class="dictionary">regulant</span>, who has filed a <span class="dictionary">verified claim</span> under this <span class="dictionary">act</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Director</span>&#x201D; means the <span class="dictionary">Director</span> of the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation.
		&#x201C;Fund&#x201D; means the Virginia Real Estate Transaction Recovery Fund.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Improper or dishonest conduct</span>&#x201D; includes only the wrongful and fraudulent taking or conversion of money, property or other things of value or <span class="dictionary">material</span> misrepresentation or deceit.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Judgment</span>&#x201D; includes an <span class="dictionary">order</span> of a United States <span class="dictionary">Bankruptcy Court</span> (i) declaring a claim against a <span class="dictionary">regulant</span> who is in bankruptcy to be a &#x201C;Debt Nondischargeable in Bankruptcy,&#x201D; (ii) extinguishing a claim against a <span class="dictionary">regulant</span> who is in bankruptcy and for which claim no distribution was made from the <span class="dictionary">regulant</span>&#x2019;s <span class="dictionary">bankruptcy estate</span> but excluding any such claim disallowed by <span class="dictionary">order</span> of the <span class="dictionary">bankruptcy court</span>, or (iii) extinguishing a claim against a <span class="dictionary">regulant</span> who is in bankruptcy and for which claim only partial distribution was made from the <span class="dictionary">regulant</span>&#x2019;s <span class="dictionary">bankruptcy estate</span>. An <span class="dictionary">order</span> of <span class="dictionary">dismissal</span> shall not be considered a <span class="dictionary">judgment</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Regulant</span>&#x201D; means a person, partnership, association, corporation, agency, firm or any other entity licensed by the Real Estate <span class="dictionary">Board</span> as a <span class="dictionary">real estate broker</span> or <span class="dictionary">real estate salesperson</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Verified claim</span>&#x201D; means a completed application, on a form designed by the <span class="dictionary">Board</span>, the truthfulness of which has been attested to by the <span class="dictionary">claimant</span> before a notary public, along with all required supporting documentation, that has been properly received by the Department in accordance with this chapter.</p></section></text><history>1977, c. 69, &#xA7; 54-765.2; 1984, cc. 266, 283; 1985, c. 448; 1987, c. 555; 1988, c. 765; 1992, c. 348; 1993, c. 499; 2015, c. 409.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
