                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 10.1-500)

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

&#8220;Board&#8221; means the Virginia Soil and Water Conservation Board.

&#8220;County&#8221; includes towns.

&#8220;City&#8221; includes all cities chartered under the Commonwealth.

&#8220;District&#8221; or &#8220;soil and water conservation district&#8221;
means a political subdivision of this Commonwealth organized in accordance with
the provisions of this chapter.

&#8220;District director&#8221; means a member of the governing body of a
district authorized to serve as a director.

&#8220;Due notice&#8221; means notice published at least twice, with an interval
of at least seven days between the two publication dates, in a newspaper or
other publication of general circulation within the appropriate area, or if no
such publication of general circulation is available, by posting at a reasonable
number of conspicuous places within the appropriate area. Such posting shall
include, where possible, posting at public places where it is customary to post
notices concerning county or municipal affairs. Hearings held pursuant to such
notice, at the time and place designated in the notice, may be adjourned from
time to time without renewing the notice for the adjourned dates.

&#8220;Governing body of a city or county&#8221; means the entire governing body
regardless of whether all or part of that city or county is included or to be
included within a district.

&#8220;Government&#8221; or &#8220;governmental&#8221; includes the government
of this Commonwealth, the government of the United States, and any of their
subdivisions, agencies or instrumentalities.

&#8220;Land occupier&#8221; or &#8220;occupier of land&#8221; includes any
person, firm or corporation who holds title to, or is in possession of, any
lands lying within a district organized, or proposed to be organized, under the
provisions of this chapter, in the capacity of owner, lessee, renter, tenant, or
cropper. The terms &#8220;land occupier&#8221; and &#8220;occupier of
land&#8221; shall not include an ordinary employee or hired hand who is
furnished a dwelling, garden, utilities, supplies, or the like, as part payment,
or payment in full, for his labor.

&#8220;Locality&#8221; means a county, city or town.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 21-3; 1950, p. 76; 1954, c. 670; 1964, c. 512; 1970, c.
480; 1985, c. 448; 1988, c. 891.