                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 58.1-439.18)

As used in this article:
		&#8220;Affiliate&#8221; means with respect to any person, any other person
directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by, or under common control with
such person. For purposes of this definition, &#8220;control&#8221; (including
controlled by and under common control with) shall mean the power, directly or
indirectly, to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of
such person whether through ownership or voting securities or by contract or
otherwise.
		&#8220;Business firm&#8221; means any corporation, partnership, electing small
business (Subchapter S) corporation, limited liability company, or sole
proprietorship authorized to do business in this Commonwealth subject to tax
imposed by Articles 2 (§ 58.1-320 et seq.) and 10 (§ 58.1-400 et seq.) of
Chapter 3, Chapter 12 (§ 58.1-1200 et seq.), Article 1 (§ 58.1-2500 et seq.)
of Chapter 25, or Article 2 (§ 58.1-2620 et seq.) of Chapter 26.
&#8220;Business firm&#8221; also means any trust or fiduciary for a trust
subject to tax imposed by Article 6 (§ 58.1-360 et seq.) of Chapter 3.
		&#8220;Commissioner of Social Services&#8221; means the Commissioner of Social
Services or his designee.
		&#8220;Community services&#8221; means any type of counseling and advice,
emergency assistance, medical care, provision of basic necessities, or services
designed to minimize the effects of poverty, furnished primarily to low-income
persons.
		&#8220;Contracting services&#8221; means the provision, by a business firm
licensed by the Commonwealth as a contractor under Chapter 11 (§ 54.1-1100 et
seq.) of Title 54.1, of labor or technical advice to aid in the development,
construction, renovation, or repair of (i) homes of low-income persons or (ii)
buildings used by neighborhood organizations.
		&#8220;Education&#8221; means any type of scholastic instruction or scholastic
assistance to a low-income person or an eligible student with a disability.
		&#8220;Eligible student with a disability&#8221; means a student (i) for whom
an individualized educational program has been written and finalized in
accordance with the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA),
regulations promulgated pursuant to IDEA, and regulations of the Board of
Education and (ii) whose family&#8217;s annual household income is not in excess
of 400 percent of the current poverty guidelines.
		&#8220;Housing assistance&#8221; means furnishing financial assistance, labor,
material, or technical advice to aid the physical improvement of the homes of
low-income persons.
		&#8220;Job training&#8221; means any type of instruction to an individual who
is a low-income person that enables him to acquire vocational skills so that he
can become employable or able to seek a higher grade of employment.
		&#8220;Low-income person&#8221; means an individual whose family&#8217;s
annual household income is not in excess of 300 percent of the current poverty
guidelines.
		&#8220;Neighborhood assistance&#8221; means providing community services,
education, housing assistance, or job training.
		&#8220;Neighborhood organization&#8221; means any local, regional or statewide
organization whose primary function is providing neighborhood assistance and
holding a ruling from the Internal Revenue Service of the United States
Department of the Treasury that the organization is exempt from income taxation
under the provisions of §§ 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, or any organization defined as a
community action agency in the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. §
2701 et seq.), or any housing authority as defined in § 36-3.
		&#8220;Poverty guidelines&#8221; means the poverty guidelines for the 48
contiguous states and the District of Columbia updated annually in the Federal
Register by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under the authority
of § 673(2) of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981.
		&#8220;Professional services&#8221; means any type of personal service to the
public that requires as a condition precedent to the rendering of such service
the obtaining of a license or other legal authorization and shall include, but
shall not be limited to, the personal services rendered by medical doctors,
dentists, architects, professional engineers, certified public accountants,
attorneys-at-law, and veterinarians.
		&#8220;Scholastic assistance&#8221; means (i) counseling or supportive
services to elementary school, middle school, secondary school, or postsecondary
school students or their parents in developing a postsecondary academic or
vocational education plan, including college financing options for such students
or their parents, or (ii) scholarships.

HISTORY: 1981, c. 629, § 63.1-321; 1982, c. 178; 1984, c. 720; 1989, c. 310;
1996, c. 77; 1997, c. 640; 1999, cc. 890, 909; 2002, c. 747, § 63.2-2000; 2008,
c. 585; 2009, cc. 10, 851; 2010, c. 164; 2011, cc. 312, 370; 2012, cc. 731, 842;
2016, c. 426.