Virginia Administrative Code › Title 24 - TRANSPORTATION AND MOTOR VEHICLES › Agency 30 - DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 151 - LAND USE PERMIT REGULATIONS › Part I - Definitions › Section 24VAC30-151-10 - 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 indicates
					 otherwise:
"Backfill" means replacement of suitable material compacted
					 as specified around and over a pipe, conduit, casing, or gallery.
"Boring" means a method of installation that is done
					 underground and by which a carrier or casing is jacked through an oversize
					 bore. The bore is carved progressively ahead of the leading edge of the
					 advancing pipe as soil is forced back through the pipe. Directional drilling,
					 coring, jacking, etc., are also considered boring.
"Carrier" means a pipe directly enclosing a transmitted
					 liquid or gas.
"Casing" means a larger pipe enclosing a carrier.
"Central Office Permit Manager" means the VDOT employee
					 assigned to provide management, oversight, and technical support for the
					 state-wide land use permit program.
"Clear zone" means the total border area of a roadway,
					 including, if any, parking lanes or planting strips, that is sufficiently wide
					 for an errant vehicle to avoid a serious accident. Details on the clear zone
					 are in VDOT's Road Design Manual (see
					 24VAC30-151-760 ).
"Code of Federal Regulations" or "CFR" means the
					 regulations promulgated by the administrative and regulatory agencies of the
					 federal government.
"Commercial entrance" means any entrance serving land uses
					 other than two or fewer individual private residences, agricultural operations
					 to obtain access to fields, or civil and communication infrastructure
					 facilities that generate 10 or fewer trips per day such as cell towers, pump
					 stations, and stormwater management basins. (See "private entrance.")
"Commissioner of Highways" means the individual serving as
					 the chief executive officer of the Virginia Department of Transportation or a
					 designee.
"Commonwealth" means the Commonwealth of Virginia.
"Conduit" means an enclosed tubular runway for carrying
					 wires, cable or fiber optics.
"Cover" means the depth of the top of a pipe, conduit, or
					 casing below the grade of the roadway, ditch, or natural ground.
"Crossing" means any utility facility that is installed
					 across the roadway, either perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the
					 roadways or at a skew of no less than 60 degrees to the roadway
					 centerline.
"District administrator" means the VDOT employee assigned
					 the overall supervision of the departmental operations in one of the
					 Commonwealth's nine construction districts.
"District administrator's designee" means the VDOT employee
					 assigned to supervise land use permit activities by the district
					 administrator.
"District roadside manager" means the VDOT employee
					 assigned to provide management, oversight and technical support for
					 district-wide vegetation program activities.
"Drain" means an appurtenance to discharge liquid
					 contaminants from casings.
"Encasement" means a structural element surrounding a
					 pipe.
"Erosion and sediment control" means the control of soil
					 erosion or the transport of sediments caused by the natural forces of wind or
					 water.
"Grounded" means connected to earth or to some extended
					 conducting body that serves instead of the earth, whether the connection is
					 intentional or accidental.
"Highway," "street," or "road" means a public way for
					 purposes of vehicular travel, including the entire area within the
					 right-of-way.
"Limited access highway" means a highway especially
					 designed for through traffic over which abutters have no easement or right of
					 light, air, or access by reason of the fact that their property abuts upon such
					 limited access highway.
"Longitudinal installations" means any utility facility
					 that is installed parallel to the centerline of the roadway or at a skew of
					 less than 60 degrees to the roadway centerline.
"Manhole" means an opening in an underground system that
					 workers or others may enter for the purpose of making installations,
					 inspections, repairs, connections and tests.
"Median" means the portion of a divided highway that
					 separates opposing traffic flows.
"Nonbetterment cost" means the cost to relocate an existing
					 facility as is with no improvements.
"Permit" means a document that sets the conditions under
					 which VDOT allows its right-of-way to be used or changed.
"Permittee" means the person or persons, firm, corporation
					 or government entity that has been issued a land use permit.
"Pipe" means a tubular product or hollow cylinder made for
					 conveying materials.
"Pole line" means poles or a series or line of supporting
					 structures such as towers, cross arms, guys, racks (conductors), ground wires,
					 insulators and other materials assembled and in place for the purpose of
					 transmitting or distributing electric power or communication, signaling and
					 control. It includes appurtenances such as transformers, fuses, switches,
					 grounds, regulators, instrument transformers, meters, equipment platforms and
					 other devices supported by poles.
"Power line" means a line for electric power or
					 communication services.
"Pressure" means relative internal pressure in pounds per
					 square inch gauge (psig).
"Private entrance" means an entrance that serves up to two
					 private residences and is used for the exclusive benefit of the occupants or an
					 entrance that allows agricultural operations to obtain access to fields or an
					 entrance to civil and communication infrastructure facilities that generate 10
					 or fewer trips per day such as cell towers, pump stations, and stormwater
					 management basins.
"Professional engineer" means a person who is qualified to
					 practice engineering by reason of his special knowledge and use of
					 mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences and the principles and methods
					 of engineering analysis and design acquired by engineering education and
					 experience, and whose competence has been attested by the Virginia Board for
					 Architects, Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, Certified Interior
					 Designers and Landscape Architects through licensure as a professional
					 engineer.
"Relocate" means to move or reestablish existing
					 facilities.
"Right-of-way" means that property within the system of
					 state highways that is open or may be opened for public travel or use or both
					 in the Commonwealth. This definition includes those public rights-of-way in
					 which the Commonwealth has a prescriptive easement for maintenance and public
					 travel. The property includes the travel way and associated boundary lines,
					 parking and recreation areas and other permanent easements for a specific
					 purpose.
"Roadside" means the area adjoining the outer edge of the
					 roadway. The median of a divided highway may also be considered a
					 "roadside."
"Roadway" means the portion of a highway, including
					 shoulders, for vehicular use. A divided highway has two or more
					 roadways.
"Service connections" means any utility facility installed
					 overhead or underground between a distribution main, pipelines, or other
					 sources of supply and the premises of the individual customer.
"Site plan" means the engineered or surveyed drawings
					 depicting proposed development of land.
"Storm sewer" means the system containing and conveying
					 roadway drainage.
"Stormwater management" means the engineering practices and
					 principles used to intercept stormwater runoff, remove pollutants and slowly
					 release the runoff into natural channels to prevent downstream flooding.
"Structure" means that portion of the transportation
					 facility that spans space, supports the roadway, or retains soil. This
					 definition includes, but is not limited to, bridges, tunnels, drainage
					 structures, retaining walls, sound walls, signs, traffic signals, etc.
"System of state highways" means all highways and roads
					 under the ownership, control, or jurisdiction of VDOT, including but not
					 limited to, the primary, secondary and interstate systems.
"Telecommunication service" means the offering of
					 telecommunications for a fee directly to the public or to privately, investor-
					 or cooperatively owned entities.
"Transportation project" means a public project in
					 development or under construction to provide a new transportation facility or
					 to improve or maintain the existing system of state highways.
"Traveled way" means the portion of the roadway for the
					 movement of vehicles, exclusive of shoulders and auxiliary lanes.
"Trenched" means installed in a narrow, open
					 excavation.
"Underground utility facilities" means any item of public
					 or private property placed below ground or submerged for use by the
					 utility.
"Utility" means a privately, publicly or cooperatively
					 owned line, facility, or system for producing, transmitting, or distributing
					 telecommunications, cable television, electricity, gas, oil, petroleum
					 products, water, steam, storm water not connected with highway drainage, or any
					 other similar commodity, including any fire or police signal system.
"VDOT" means the Virginia Department of Transportation or
					 the Commissioner of Highways.
"Vent" means an appurtenance to discharge gaseous
					 contaminants from a casing or carrier pipe.
"Wetlands" means those areas that are inundated or
					 saturated by surface or ground water at a frequency and duration sufficient to
					 support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of
					 vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions. Wetlands
					 generally include swamps, marshes, bogs and similar areas.
Statutory Authority
§ 33.1-12 of the Code of
						Virginia.