<?xml version="1.0"?>
<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>54655</law_id><section_number>54.1-2343</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="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="23.2">Fair Housing Board</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 Fair Housing <span class="dictionary">Board</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Fair Housing Law</span>&#x201D; means the provisions of Chapter 5.1 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Declaration of policy" href="/36-96.1/">36-96.1</a> et seq.) of Title 36.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Person in the business or activity of selling or renting dwellings</span>&#x201D; means any person who is the owner of any combination of residential dwelling units occupied by five or more families. &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Person in the business or activity of selling or renting dwellings</span>&#x201D; shall not include any person involved in the sale of a dwelling or interest therein pursuant to a deed of trust, or in full or partial satisfaction of a debt that was secured by such dwelling or interest therein, or other <span class="dictionary">lien</span> on such property.</p></section></text><history>2003, c. 575; 2010, cc. 457, 620.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
