Sec. 23.1-2. Definitions.

For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section.

Commission. The Virginia Marine Resources Commission.

Commissioner. The Commissioner of Marine Resources.

Enforcement officer. A person designated by the wetlands board to enforce this chapter.

Governmental activity. Any of the services provided by this county to its citizens for the purpose of maintaining public facilities including but not limited to, such services as constructing, repairing and maintaining roads, sewage facilities and street lights, supplying and treating water and constructing public buildings.

Nonvegetated wetlands. All the land lying contiguous to mean low water and which land is between mean low water and mean high water not otherwise included in the term "vegetated wetlands," as defined herein.

Person. Any individual, corporation, association, partnership, company, business, trust, joint venture or other legal entity.

Vegetated wetlands. All that land lying between and contiguous to mean low water and an elevation above mean low water equal to the factor one and one-half (1½) times the mean tide range at the site of the proposed project in this county and upon which is growing on the effective date of this article or grown thereon subsequent thereto, any one or more of the following: saltmarsh cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora), saltmeadow hay (Spartina patens), saltgrass (Distichlis apicata), black needlerush (Juncus roemerianus), saltwort (Salicornia sp.), sea lavender (Limonium sp.), marsh elder (Iva frutescens), groundsel bush (Baccharis hamilifolia), wax myrtle (Myrica sp.), sea oxeye (Borrichia frutescens), arrow arum (Peltandra virginica), pickerelweed (Pontederia cordata), big cordgrass (Spartina cynosuroides), rice cutgrass (Leersia oryzoides), wildrice (Zizania aquatica), bulrush (Scirpus validus), spikerush (Eleocharis sp.), sea rocket (Cakile edentula), southern wildrice (Aizaniopsis miliacea), cattail (Typha spp.), three-square (Scirpus spp.), buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis), bald cypress (Taxodium distichum), black gum (Nyssa sylvatica), tupelo (Nyssa aquatica), dock (Rumex sp.), yellow pond lily (Nuphar sp.), marsh fleabane (Pluchea purpurascens), royal fern (Osmunda regalis), marsh hibiscus (Hisbiscus moscheutos), beggar's tick (Bidens sp.), smartweed (Polygonum sp.) arrowhead (Sagittaria spp.), sweet flag (Acorus calamus), water hemp (Amaranthus cannabinus), reed grass (Phragmites communis), and switch grass (Panicum virgatum).

Wetlands. Both vegetated and nonvegetated wetlands.