                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 33.2-2900)

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#8220;Authority&#8221; means the Richmond Metropolitan Transportation
Authority created by § 33.2-2901 or, if the Authority is abolished, the board,
body, commission, or agency succeeding to the principal functions thereof or on
whom the powers given by this chapter to the Authority are conferred by law, but
shall not include the City of Richmond or the Counties of Chesterfield and
Henrico.
		&#8220;Authority facility&#8221; means all facilities purchased, constructed,
or otherwise acquired by the Authority pursuant to the provisions of this
chapter and all extensions and improvements thereof.
		&#8220;Bonds&#8221; or &#8220;revenue bonds&#8221; means revenue bonds or
revenue refunding bonds of the Authority issued under the provisions of this
chapter.
		&#8220;Cost,&#8221; as applied to any project, includes the cost of
construction, landscaping, and conservation; the cost of acquisition of all
land, rights-of-way, property, rights, easements, and interests acquired by the
Authority for such construction, landscaping, and conservation; the cost of
demolishing or removing any buildings or structures on land so acquired,
including the cost of acquiring any lands to which such buildings or structures
may be moved; the cost of all machinery and equipment; the cost of financing
charges and interest prior to and during construction and for a period of time
after completion of construction as deemed advisable by the Authority; the cost
of traffic estimates and of engineering and legal services, plans,
specifications, surveys, estimates of cost and of revenues, and other expenses
necessary or incident to determining the feasibility or practicability of
constructing the project; the cost of administrative expenses; and the cost of
payments to the Department or others for services during the period of
construction, initial working capital, debt service reserves, and such other
expenses as may be necessary or incident to the construction of the project, the
financing of such construction, and the placing of the project in operation. Any
obligation or expense incurred by the Commonwealth Transportation Board or by
the City of Richmond or the County of Henrico or Chesterfield, before or after
the effective date of this chapter, for surveys, engineering, borings, plans and
specifications, legal and other professional and technical services, reports,
studies, and data in connection with the construction of a project shall be
repaid or reimbursed by the Authority and the amounts thereof shall be included
as a part of the cost of the project.
		&#8220;Limited access highway&#8221; means a highway specially designed for
through traffic over or to which owners or occupants of abutting property or
other persons have no easement of or right to light, air, view, or access by
reason of the fact that their property abuts upon such highway, and access to
which highway is controlled by the Authority, the Commonwealth, the City of
Richmond, the County of Henrico, or the County of Chesterfield so as to give
preference to through traffic by providing access connections with selected
public highways only and by prohibiting crossings at grade or direct private
driveway connections.
		&#8220;Owner&#8221; includes all individuals, partnerships, associations,
organizations, and corporations, the City of Richmond, the County of Henrico,
the County of Chesterfield, and all public agencies and instrumentalities having
any title to or interest in any property, rights, easements, and interests
authorized to be acquired by this chapter.
		&#8220;Project&#8221; means any single facility constituting an Authority
facility, as described in the resolution or trust agreement providing for its
construction, including extensions and improvements thereof.
		&#8220;Public highways&#8221; shall include public highways, roads, and
streets, whether maintained by the Commonwealth or the City of Richmond or the
County of Henrico or Chesterfield.
		&#8220;Revenues&#8221; means all fees, tolls, rents, rates, receipts, moneys,
and income derived by the Authority through the ownership and operation of
Authority facilities, and includes all cash contributions made to the Authority
by the Commonwealth or any agency or department thereof, the City of Richmond,
and the Counties of Henrico and Chesterfield not specifically dedicated by the
contributor for a capital improvement.

HISTORY: 2009, c. 471, § 15.2-7000; 2014, cc. 469, 805.