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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>369142</law_id><section_number>54.1-900</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="118" identifier="54.1">Professions and Occupations</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="2" identifier="II">Professions and Occupations Regulated by the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation and Boards Within the Department</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="10" identifier="9">Branch Pilots</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">Board for Branch Pilots</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>For the purposes of this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:</p><p>&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Board</span>&#x201D; means the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> for <span class="dictionary">Branch Pilots</span>.</p><p>&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Branch pilots</span>&#x201D; means pilots who have qualified and been licensed in accordance with the provisions of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Examination of pilots; issuance of license; bonds and oath of office" href="/54.1-905/">54.1-905</a>.</p><p>&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Limited branch pilots</span>&#x201D; means pilots who have qualified and been licensed in accordance with the provisions of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="License as limited branch pilot" href="/54.1-909/">54.1-909</a>.</p><p>&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Pilot</span>&#x201D; means branch <span class="dictionary">pilot</span> and limited branch <span class="dictionary">pilot</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 54-525; 1988, c. 765.</history><metadata><court_decisions><item key="0"><name> .&#x202F;.&#x202F;. Wallace S. Harwood, Jr. v. Partredereit Af 15.5.81, Wallace .&#x202F;.&#x202F;. </name><case_number>90-2351, 90-2359</case_number><citation>944 F.2d 1187</citation><date>1991-09-05</date><url>https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/568510/wallace-s-harwood-jr-v-partredereit-af-15581-wallace-s-harwood-jr/</url><abstract> .&#x202F;.&#x202F;. *1189OPINION .&#x202F;.&#x202F;. </abstract><court_html>Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit</court_html></item></court_decisions></metadata></law>
