                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 19.2-368.2)

For the purpose of this chapter:
		&#8220;Claimant&#8221; means the person filing a claim pursuant to this
chapter.
		&#8220;Commission&#8221; means the Virginia Workers&#8217; Compensation
Commission.
		&#8220;Crime&#8221; means an act committed by any person in the Commonwealth
of Virginia which would constitute a crime as defined by the Code of Virginia or
at common law. However, no act involving the operation of a motor vehicle which
results in injury shall constitute a crime for the purpose of this chapter
unless the injuries (i) were intentionally inflicted through the use of such
vehicle or (ii) resulted from a violation of § 18.2-51.4 or 18.2-266 or from a
felony violation of § 46.2-894.
		&#8220;Family,&#8221; when used with reference to a person, means (i) any
person related to such person within the third degree of consanguinity or
affinity, (ii) any person residing in the same household with such person, or
(iii) a spouse.
		&#8220;Sexual abuse&#8221; means sexual abuse as defined in subdivision 6 of
§ 18.2-67.10 and acts constituting rape, sodomy, object sexual penetration or
sexual battery as defined in Article 7 (§ 18.2-61 et seq.) of Chapter 4 of
Title 18.2.
		&#8220;Victim&#8221; means a person who suffers personal physical injury or
death as a direct result of a crime including a person who is injured or killed
as a result of foreign terrorism or who suffers personal emotional injury as a
direct result of being the subject of a violent felony offense as defined in
subsection C of § 17.1-805, or stalking as described in § 18.2-60.3, or
attempted robbery or abduction.

HISTORY: 1976, c. 605; 1984, c. 619; 1988, c. 748; 1990, c. 620; 1997, cc. 528,
691; 1998, c. 484; 1999, c. 286; 2001, c. 855; 2008, c. 590; 2012, c. 38.