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2011 SESSION
11100822DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 19.2-368.2 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 19.2-368.2. Definitions.
For the purpose of this chapter:
"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 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.
"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.