Code of Virginia - Title 10.1 Conservation - Section 10.1-1414 Definitions

§ 10.1-1414. Definitions

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

"Advisory Board" means the Litter Control and Recycling Fund Advisory Board;

"Disposable package" or "container" means all packages or containers intended or used to contain solids, liquids or materials and so designated;

"Fund" means the Litter Control and Recycling Fund;

"Litter" means all waste material disposable packages or containers but not including the wastes of the primary processes of mining, logging, sawmilling, farming, or manufacturing;

"Litter bag" means a bag, sack, or durable material which is large enough to serve as a receptacle for litter inside a vehicle or watercraft which is similar in size and capacity to a state approved litter bag;

"Litter receptacle" means containers acceptable to the Department for the depositing of litter;

"Person" means any natural person, corporation, association, firm, receiver, guardian, trustee, executor, administrator, fiduciary, representative or group of individuals or entities of any kind;

"Public place" means any area that is used or held out for use by the public, whether owned or operated by public or private interests;

"Recycling" means the process of separating a given waste material from the waste stream and processing it so that it may be used again as a raw material for a product which may or may not be similar to the original product;

"Sold within the Commonwealth" or "sales of the business within the Commonwealth" means all sales of retailers engaged in business within the Commonwealth and in the case of manufacturers and wholesalers, sales of products for use and consumption within the Commonwealth;

"Vehicle" includes every device capable of being moved upon a public highway and in, upon, or by which any person or property may be transported upon a public highway, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks; and

"Watercraft" means any boat, ship, vessel, barge, or other floating craft.

(1987, c. 234, § 10-277.1; 1988, c. 891; 1995, c. 417.)

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