Virginia Administrative Code › Title 1 - ADMINISTRATION › Agency 20 - STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS › Chapter 10 - PUBLIC PARTICIPATION GUIDELINES › Section 1VAC20-10-10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms when used in this chapter
				  shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise:
"Administrative Process Act" means Chapter 40 (§
									2.2-4000 et seq.) of Title 2.2 of
				  the Code of Virginia.
"Agency" means the State Board of Elections.
"Approving authority" means the State Board of Elections
				  established pursuant to §
									24.2-103 of the Code of Virginia
				  as the legal authority to adopt regulations.
"Board" means the State Board of Elections, which is the
				  unit of state government empowered by Title 24.2 of the Code of Virginia to
				  make rules and regulations for registration of voters and elections. Actions
				  specified in this chapter may be fulfilled by state employees as delegated by
				  the agency.
"Commonwealth Calendar" means the electronic calendar for
				  official government meetings open to the public as required by §
									2.2-3707C of the
				  Freedom of Information Act.
"Negotiated rulemaking panel" or "NRP" means an ad hoc
				  advisory panel of interested parties established by an agency to consider
				  issues that are controversial with the assistance of a facilitator or mediator,
				  for the purpose of reaching a consensus in the development of a proposed
				  regulatory action.
"Notification list" means a list used to notify persons
				  pursuant to this chapter. Such a list may include an electronic list maintained
				  through the Virginia Regulatory Town Hall or other list maintained by the
				  agency.
"Open meeting" means any scheduled gathering of a unit of
				  state government empowered by an agency's basic law to make regulations or
				  decide cases, which is related to promulgating, amending or repealing a
				  regulation.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership,
				  association, cooperative, limited liability company, trust, joint venture,
				  government, political subdivision, or any other legal or commercial entity and
				  any successor, representative, agent, agency, or instrumentality
				  thereof.
"Public hearing" means a scheduled time at which members of
				  the board will meet for the purpose of receiving public comment on a regulatory
				  action.
"Regulation" means any statement of general application
				  having the force of law, affecting the rights or conduct of any person, adopted
				  by the agency in accordance with the authority conferred on it by applicable
				  laws.
"Regulatory action" means the promulgation, amendment, or
				  repeal of a regulation by the agency.
"Regulatory advisory panel" or "RAP" means a standing or ad
				  hoc advisory panel of interested parties established by the agency for the
				  purpose of assisting in regulatory actions.
"State Board of Elections website" means the website
				  operated by the Virginia State Board of Elections at
				  http://www.sbe.virginia.gov, which may provide online public comment forums and
				  public information about regulatory actions under consideration by the Virginia
				  State Board of Elections.
"Town Hall" means the Virginia Regulatory Town Hall, the
				  website operated by the Virginia Department of Planning and Budget at
				  http://www.townhall.virginia.gov, which has online public comment forums and
				  displays information about regulatory meetings and regulatory actions under
				  consideration in Virginia and sends this information to registered public
				  users.
"Virginia Register" means the Virginia Register of
				  Regulations, the publication that provides official legal notice of new,
				  amended, and repealed regulations of state agencies, which is published under
				  the provisions of Article 6 (§
									2.2-4031 et seq.) of the
				  Administrative Process Act.
Statutory Authority: §
											24.2-103 of the Code of
					 Virginia.