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§ 4.1-1500 Definitions

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:

CDFI” means a community development financial institution that provides credit and financial services for underserved communities.

Fund” means the Virginia Cannabis Equity Business Loan Fund established in § 4.1-1501.

Funding” means loans made from the Fund.

Program” means the Virginia Cannabis Equity Business Loan Program established in § 4.1-1502.

Social equity qualified cannabis licensee” means a person or business who meets the criteria in § 4.1-606 to qualify as a social equity applicant and who either holds or is in the final stages of acquiring, as determined by the Board, a license to operate a marijuana establishment.

History

This law was first created in 2021. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 550 and 551 of the Special Session I of that year’s edition of “Acts of Assembly,” the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.

2021, Sp. Sess. I, cc. 550, 551.

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