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Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-368.2 — Definitions
Current through 2026 Regular Session
Part of Chapter 21.1: Compensating Victims of Crime, Code of Virginia.
Full text of Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-368.2
Statutory text current through the 2026 Regular Session. This publication reproduces the text of the Code of Virginia from the official Virginia Law Portal API published by the Virginia General Assembly's Division of Legislative Automated Systems; it is not the official Code of Virginia.
For the purpose of this chapter:
"Anonymous trace evidence collection kit" means the same as that term is defined in § 19.2-11.5 .
"Claimant" means the person filing a claim pursuant to this chapter.
"Commission" means the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission.
"Crime" means an act committed by any person in the Commonwealth of Virginia which would constitute a crime as defined by the Code of Virginia or at common law. However, no act involving the operation of a motor vehicle which results in injury shall constitute a crime for the purpose of this chapter unless the injuries (i) were intentionally inflicted through the use of such vehicle or (ii) resulted from a violation of § 18.2-51.4 or 18.2-266 or from a felony violation of § 46.2-894 .
"Family," when used with reference to a person, means (i) any person related to such person within the third degree of consanguinity or affinity, (ii) any person residing in the same household with such person, or (iii) a spouse.
"Physical evidence recovery kit" means the same as that term is defined in § 19.2-11.5 .
"Sexual abuse" means sexual abuse as defined in subdivision 6 of § 18.2-67.10 and acts constituting rape, sodomy, object sexual penetration or sexual battery as defined in Article 7 (§ 18.2-61 et seq.) of Chapter 4 of Title 18.2.
"Victim" means a person who suffers personal physical injury or death as a direct result of a crime including a person who is injured or killed as a result of foreign terrorism or who suffers personal emotional injury as a direct result of being the subject of a violent felony offense as defined in subsection C of § 17.1-805 , or stalking as described in § 18.2-60.3 , or attempted robbery or abduction.
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