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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>60468</law_id><section_number>59.1-207.2</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="59.1">Trade and Commerce</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="17.1">Automobile Repair Facilities Act</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this chapter:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Motor vehicle</span>&#x201D; shall mean every vehicle which is self-propelled or designed for self-propulsion and every vehicle drawn by or designed to be drawn by a <span class="dictionary">motor vehicle</span> and includes every device in, upon or by which any property is or can be transported or drawn upon a highway, whether or not required to be licensed by the Commonwealth, but shall not include devices moved by human or animal power or devices used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. Nor shall it include those parts of a manufactured home which do not affect the ability of the manufactured home to be safely upon a highway. <a id="paragraph-221100" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-207.2/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Person</span>&#x201D; shall include any natural <span class="dictionary">person</span>, firm, partnership, association or corporation. <a id="paragraph-221101" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-207.2/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Automobile repair facility</span>&#x201D; shall mean any <span class="dictionary">person</span> who for profit diagnoses or corrects malfunctions of, or damage to, a <span class="dictionary">motor vehicle</span>. <a id="paragraph-221102" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-207.2/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1979, c. 506; 1999, c. 77.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
