                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 2.2-307)

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#8220;Employee&#8221; means any person who is regularly employed full time on
either a salaried or wage basis, whose tenure is not restricted as to temporary
or provisional appointment, in the service of, and whose compensation is payable
by, no more often than biweekly, in whole or in part, a state agency.
		&#8220;Nonstate agency&#8221; means any public or private foundation,
authority, institute, museum, corporation, or similar organization that is (i)
not a unit of state government or a political subdivision of the Commonwealth as
established by general law or special act and (ii) wholly or principally
supported by state funds. &#8220;Nonstate agency&#8221; shall not include any
such entity that receives state funds (a) as a subgrantee of a state agency, (b)
through a state grant-in-aid program authorized by law, (c) as a result of an
award of a competitive grant or a public contract for the procurement of goods,
services, or construction, or (d) pursuant to a lease of real property as
described in subdivision 5 of § 2.2-1149.
		&#8220;Office&#8221; means the Office of the State Inspector General.
		&#8220;Officer&#8221; means any person who is elected or appointed to a public
office in a state agency.
		&#8220;State agency&#8221; means any agency, institution, board, bureau,
commission, council, or instrumentality of state government in the executive
branch listed in the appropriation act. &#8220;State agency&#8221; also includes
any local department of social services.

HISTORY: 2011, cc. 798, 871; 2017, c. 590.