                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 3.2-303)

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#8220;Agricultural products&#8221; means crops, livestock, and livestock
products, including field crops, fruits, vegetables, horticultural specialties,
cattle, sheep, hogs, goats, horses, poultry, fur-bearing animals, milk, eggs,
aquaculture, commercially harvested wild fish, commercially harvested wild
shellfish, and furs.
		&#8220;Agriculture and forestry processing/value-added facilities&#8221; means
any for-profit or nonprofit business that creates value-added agricultural or
forestal products.
		&#8220;Food hub&#8221; means a business or organization that actively manages
the aggregation, distribution, and marketing of food products primarily from
local and regional producers to strengthen such producers&#8217; ability to
satisfy wholesale, retail, and institutional demand.
		&#8220;Forestal products&#8221; means saw timber, pulpwood, posts, firewood,
Christmas trees, and other tree and wood products for sale or for farm use.
		&#8220;Fund&#8221; means the Governor&#8217;s Agriculture and Forestry
Industries Development Fund established pursuant to § 3.2-304.
		&#8220;Local Grant Program&#8221; means the Local Food and Farming
Infrastructure Grant Program established pursuant to § 3.2-311.
		&#8220;New job&#8221; means employment of an indefinite duration, created as
the direct result of the private investment, for which the firm pays the wages
and standard fringe benefits for its employee, requiring a minimum of either (i)
35 hours of the employee&#8217;s time a week for the entire normal year of the
firm&#8217;s operations, which &#8220;normal year&#8221; shall consist of at
least 48 weeks, or (ii) 1,680 hours per year. Seasonal or temporary positions,
positions created when a job function is shifted from an existing location in
the Commonwealth to the location of the economic development project, positions
with suppliers, and multiplier or spin-off jobs shall not qualify as new jobs.
The term &#8220;new job&#8221; shall include positions with contractors provided
that all requirements included within the definition of the term are met.
		&#8220;Planning Grant Program&#8221; means the Agriculture and Forestry
Industries Development Planning Grant Program established pursuant to §
3.2-310.
		&#8220;Prevailing average wage&#8221; means that amount determined by the
Virginia Employment Commission to be the average wage paid workers in the city
or county of the Commonwealth where the economic development project is located.
The prevailing average wage shall be determined without regard to any fringe
benefits.
		&#8220;Private investment&#8221; means the private investment required under
this chapter.
		&#8220;Value-added agricultural or forestal products&#8221; means any
agricultural or forestal product that (i) has undergone a change in physical
state; (ii) was produced in a manner that enhances the value of the agricultural
commodity or product; (iii) is physically segregated in a manner that results in
the enhancement of the value of the agricultural or forestal product; (iv) is a
source of renewable energy; or (v) is aggregated and marketed as a locally
produced agricultural or forestal product.

HISTORY: 2012, cc. 466, 622; 2016, c. 169; 2020, c. 1220; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c.
185.