                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 23.1-1000)

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#8220;Bonds, notes, or other obligations&#8221; means bonds, notes,
commercial paper, bond anticipation notes, revenue certificates, capital leases,
lease participation certificates, or other evidences of indebtedness or deferred
purchase financing arrangements.
		&#8220;Capital project&#8221; means the acquisition of any interest in land,
including (i) capital leases and (ii) improvements on the acquired land
consisting of (a) new construction of at least 5,000 square feet, (b) new
construction costing at least $2 million, or (c) improvements or renovations
costing at least $2 million.
		&#8220;Covered employee&#8221; means any individual who is employed by a
covered institution on either a salaried or wage basis.
		&#8220;Covered institution&#8221; means a public institution of higher
education that has entered into a management agreement with the Commonwealth to
be governed by the provisions of Article 4 (§ 23.1-1004 et seq.).
		&#8220;Enabling statutes&#8221; means each chapter in Subtitle IV (§
23.1-1300 et seq.), and in the case of the University of Virginia Medical Center
§§ 2.2-2817.2, 2.2-2905, 51.1-126.3, and 51.1-1100, creating, continuing, or
otherwise setting forth the powers, duties, purposes, and missions of each
individual public institution of higher education unless otherwise expressly
provided in this chapter.
		&#8220;Facilities&#8221; means all (i) real, personal, tangible, and
intangible property, including all (a) infrastructure suitable for supporting a
covered institution&#8217;s mission and ancillary activities and (b) structures,
buildings, improvements, additions, extensions, replacements, appurtenances,
lands, rights in land, furnishings, landscaping, approaches, roadways, and other
related and supporting facilities held, possessed, owned, leased, operated, or
used, in whole or in part, by a covered institution and (ii) rights in such
property.
		&#8220;Includes&#8221; has the same meaning as provided in § 1-218.
		&#8220;Management agreement&#8221; means an agreement between the Commonwealth
and a public institution of higher education that enables such institution to be
governed by Article 4 (§ 23.1-1004 et seq.).
		&#8220;Participating covered employee&#8221; includes (i) all salaried
nonfaculty covered employees who were employed by the covered institution on the
day prior to the effective date of the initial management agreement and elect
pursuant to § 23.1-1022 to participate in and be governed by the program,
plans, policies, and procedures established by the institution pursuant to
Article 4 (§ 23.1-1004 et seq.); (ii) all salaried nonfaculty covered employees
who are employed by the covered institution on or after the effective date of
the initial management agreement; (iii) all nonsalaried nonfaculty covered
employees of the covered institution without regard to when they were hired;
(iv) all faculty covered employees of the covered institution without regard to
when they were hired; and (v) all employees of the University of Virginia
Medical Center without regard to when they were hired.
		&#8220;Project&#8221; means (i) any research program, research facility, or
educational facility of a covered institution or equipment necessary or
convenient to or consistent with the purposes of such institution, whether or
not owned by the institution, including (a) research, training, teaching,
dormitory, and classroom facilities and all related and supporting facilities
and equipment necessary or desirable in connection with such facilities or
incidental to such facilities; (b) office, parking, kitchen, laundry,
laboratory, wellness, pharmaceutical, administrative, communications, computer,
and recreational and athletics facilities; (c) hotels and related facilities;
(d) power plants and equipment; (e) storage space; (f) hospitals; (g) nursing
homes; (h) continuing care facilities; (i) self-care facilities; (j) health
maintenance centers; (k) medical office facilities; (l) clinics; (m) outpatient
clinics; (n) surgical centers; (o) alcohol, substance abuse, and drug treatment
centers; (p) sanitariums; (q) hospices; (r) facilities for the residence or care
of elderly or chronically ill individuals or individuals with disabilities; (s)
residential facilities for nurses, interns, and physicians; (t) other facilities
for the treatment of sick, disturbed, or infirm individuals, the prevention of
disease, or the maintenance of health; (u) colleges, schools, or divisions
offering undergraduate, graduate, professional, or extension programs, or any
combination of such programs, for such courses of study as may be appropriate;
(v) vehicles, mobile medical facilities, and other transportation equipment; and
(w) air transport equipment, including equipment necessary or desirable for the
transportation of medical equipment, medical personnel, or patients; and (ii)
all lands, buildings, improvements, approaches, and appurtenances necessary or
desirable in connection with or incidental to any such program, facility, or
equipment.
		&#8220;Virginia Retirement System&#8221; includes any retirement system
established or authorized by Title 51.1.

HISTORY: 2005, cc. 933, 945, § 23-38.89; 2016, c. 588; 2023, cc. 148, 149.