                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 40.1-49.3)

For the purposes of §§ 40.1-49.4, 40.1-49.5, 40.1-49.6, 40.1-49.7, and
40.1-51.1 through 40.1-51.3 the following terms shall have the following
meanings:
		&#8220;Commission&#8221; means the Virginia Workers&#8217; Compensation
Commission.
		&#8220;Commissioner&#8221; means the Commissioner of Labor and Industry.
Except where the context clearly indicates the contrary, any reference to
Commissioner shall include his authorized representatives.
		&#8220;Employee&#8221; means an individual who is employed by an employer.
		&#8220;Employer&#8221; means any person that (i) is engaged in business or
engages an individual to perform domestic service and (ii) has employees.
&#8220;Employer&#8221; does not include the United States.
		&#8220;Occupational safety and health standard&#8221; means a standard which
requires conditions, or the adoption or use of one or more practices, means,
methods, operations, or processes, reasonably necessary or appropriate to
provide safe or healthful employment and places of employment.
		&#8220;Serious violation&#8221; means a violation deemed to exist in a place
of employment if there is a substantial probability that death or serious
physical harm could result from a condition which exists, or from one or more
practices, means, methods, operations, or processes which have been adopted or
are in use, in such place of employment unless the employer did not, and could
not with the exercise of reasonable diligence, know of the presence of the
violation.
		&#8220;Person&#8221; means one or more individuals, partnerships,
associations, corporations, business trusts, legal representatives, or any
organized group of persons.
		&#8220;Circuit court&#8221; means the circuit court of the city or county
wherein the violation of this title or any standard, rule or regulation issued
pursuant thereto is alleged to have occurred. Venue shall be determined in
accordance with the provisions of §§ 8.01-257 through 8.01-267.

HISTORY: 1979, c. 354; 1992, c. 777; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, cc. 509, 513.