                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 10.1-1162)

As used in this article unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#8220;Diameter&#8221; means the distance through a tree at the point of
average thickness as measured from outside of bark to outside of bark at a point
on a trunk ten inches above the general ground level.
		&#8220;Person&#8221; means any landowner, owner of timber, owner of timber
rights, sawmill operator, sawmill owner, veneer wood operator, pulpwood
contractor, or any person engaged in the business of severing timber from the
stump.
		&#8220;Tree&#8221; means any tree of a currently commercially valuable species
which is six inches or more in diameter.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 10-75; 1952, c. 417; 1956, c. 75; 1988, c. 891.