                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS AND APPLICATION OF CHAPTER (§ 17.1-900)

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#8220;Commission&#8221; means the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission
provided for in Article VI, Section 10 of the Constitution of Virginia.
		&#8220;Judge&#8221; means a justice of the Supreme Court, judge of the Court
of Appeals, judge of a circuit or district court, member of the State
Corporation Commission, or a member of the Virginia Workers&#8217; Compensation
Commission and includes (i) persons who have been elected or appointed to be
judges but have not taken the oath of office as judge as well as persons who
have taken such oath, (ii) judges designated under § 17.1-105, (iii) judges
under temporary recall under § 17.1-106, (iv) judges pro tempore under §
17.1-109 and (v) special justices appointed pursuant to § 37.2-803, all of whom
shall be subject to investigations and proceedings under the provisions of this
chapter.
		&#8220;Term&#8221; means (i) the period of time between either election or
appointment of service as a judge and the first taking of the oath of office,
(ii) each period of time for which the person was either elected or appointed as
a judge, and (iii) any period of time after retirement during which the person
hears cases as a retired judge.

HISTORY: 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 154, § 2.1-37.1; 1984, c. 703; 2001, cc. 113, 844;
2004, c. 363.