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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>71916</law_id><section_number>63.2-1100</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>16.1-286</reference><reference>22.1-101.1</reference><reference>22.1-218.1</reference><reference>66-14</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="63.2">Welfare (Social Services)</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Social Services Programs</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="11">Implementation of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>For the purposes of Chapter 10 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children; form of compact" href="/63.2-1000/">63.2-1000</a> et seq.) of this title, the following words shall have the meaning ascribed to them by this section:</p></section>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> &#x201C;Appropriate public authorities&#x201D; as used in Article III of the compact means, with reference to this Commonwealth, the <span class="dictionary">Department</span>. <a id="paragraph-259113" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/63.2-1100/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> &#x201C;Appropriate authority in the receiving state&#x201D; as used in subdivision (a) of Article V of the compact means, with reference to this Commonwealth, the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span>. <a id="paragraph-259114" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/63.2-1100/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1975, c. 406, &#xA7; 63.1-219.1; 2002, c. 747.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
