Va. Code Ann. § 2.2-3400

This is the official text of Va. Code Ann. § 2.2-3400, part of Virginia’s Code of Virginia — the complete compiled statutory law of Virginia, organized into 60+ numbered titles by subject.

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

"Agency" means any state board, department, commission, agency or other unit of state government except a county, city, town or any agency thereof.

"Deaf person" means any person whose hearing is so seriously impaired as to prohibit the person from understanding oral communications spoken in a normal conversational tone.

1978, c. 602, § 2.1-570; 2001, c. 844 .

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