§ 54.1-2200. Definitions
As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
"Board" means the Board for Professional Soil Scientists and Wetland Professionals.
"Department" means the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation.
"Eligible soil scientist" means a person who possesses the qualifications specified in this chapter to become certified.
"Eligible wetland professional" means a person who possesses the qualifications specified in this chapter to become certified.
"Practice of soil evaluation" means the evaluation of soil by accepted principles and methods including, but not limited to, observation, investigation, and consultation on measured, observed and inferred soils and their properties; analysis of the effects of these properties on the use and management of various kinds of soil; and preparation of soil descriptions, maps, reports and interpretive drawings.
"Practice of wetland delineation" means the delineation of wetlands by accepted principles and methods including, but not limited to, observation, investigation, and consultation on soil, vegetation, and hydrologic parameters; and preparation of wetland delineations, descriptions, reports and interpretive drawings.
"Soil" means the groups of natural bodies occupying the unconsolidated portion of the earth's surface which are capable of supporting plant life and have properties caused by the combined effects, as modified by topography and time, of climate and living organisms upon parent materials.
"Soil evaluation" means plotting soil boundaries, describing and evaluating the kinds of soil and predicting their suitability for and response to various uses.
"Soil science" means the science dealing with the physical, chemical, mineralogical, and biological properties of soils as natural bodies.
"Soil scientist" means a person having special knowledge of soil science and the methods and principles of soil evaluation as acquired by education and experience in the formation, description and mapping of soils.
"Virginia certified professional soil scientist" means a person who possesses the qualifications required for certification by the provisions of this chapter and the regulations of the Board and who has been granted certification by the Board.
"Virginia certified professional wetland delineator" means a person who possesses the qualifications required for certification by the provisions of this chapter and the regulations of the Board and who is granted certification by the Board.
"Wetland delineation" means delineating wetland limits in accordance with prevailing state and federal regulatory guidance and describing wetland types.
"Wetland professional" means a person having special knowledge of wetland science and the methods and principles of wetland delineation as acquired by education and experience in the formation, description and mapping of wetlands.
"Wetland science" means the science dealing with the physical, chemical, and biological properties of wetland systems integrated through ecological and morphological relationships.
"Wetlands" means the same as that term is defined in §§ 62.1-44.3 and 28.2-1300.
(1987, c. 626, § 54-969; 1988, c. 765; 1993, c. 499; 2002, c. 784.)
Sections: 54.1-2200 54.1-2201 54.1-2202 54.1-2203 54.1-2204 54.1-2205 54.1-2206 54.1-2206.1 54.1-2206.2 54.1-2207 54.1-2208 NextLast modified: April 16, 2009