                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 2.2-4101)

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#8220;Agency&#8221; means any authority, instrumentality, officer, board, or
other unit of the government of the Commonwealth with express or implied
authority to issue regulations other than the General Assembly, courts,
municipal corporations, counties, other local or regional governmental
authorities including sanitary or other districts and joint state-federal,
interstate or intermunicipal authorities, the Virginia Resources Authority, the
Virginia Code Commission with respect to minor changes made under the provisions
of § 30-150, and educational institutions operated by the Commonwealth with
respect to regulations that pertain to (i) their academic affairs; (ii) the
selection, tenure, promotion and disciplining of faculty and employees; (iii)
the selection of students; and (iv) rules of conduct and disciplining of
students.
		&#8220;Virginia Administrative Code&#8221; means the codified publication of
regulations under the provisions of Chapter 15 (§ 30-145 et seq.) of Title 30.
		&#8220;Commission&#8221; means the Virginia Code Commission.
		&#8220;Guidance document&#8221; means any document developed by a state agency
or staff that provides information or guidance of general applicability to the
staff or public to interpret or implement statutes or the agency&#8217;s rules
or regulations, excluding agency minutes or documents that pertain only to the
internal management of agencies. Nothing in this definition shall be construed
or interpreted to expand the identification or release of any document otherwise
protected by law.
		&#8220;Registrar&#8221; means the Registrar of Regulations employed as
provided in § 2.2-4102.
		&#8220;Rule&#8221; or &#8220;regulation&#8221; means any statement of general
application, having the force of law, affecting the rights or conduct of any
person, promulgated by an agency in accordance with the authority conferred on
it by applicable basic laws.
		&#8220;Virginia Register of Regulations&#8221; means the publication issued
under the provisions of Article 6 (§ 2.2-4031 et seq.) of the Administrative
Process Act (§ 2.2-4000 et seq.).

HISTORY: 1973, c. 535, § 9-6.16; 1975, c. 502; 1982, c. 489; 1984, c. 5; 1985,
cc. 67, 602; 1993, c. 669; 1997, cc. 11, 87; 2001, c. 844; 2019, c. 362.