For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
COMMISSION. The Virginia Marine Resources
Commission.
COMMISSIONER. The Commissioner of Marine Resources.
GOVERNMENTAL ACTIVITY. Any of the services provided by Northampton County to its citizens for the purpose of maintaining Northampton County, including but not limited to such services as constructing, repairing, and maintaining roads; providing sewage facilities and street lights, supplying and treating water; and constructing of public buildings.
NONVEGETATED WETLANDS. Unvegetated lands lying contiguous to mean low water and between mean low water and mean high water.
PERSON. Any individual, corporation, partnership, association, company, business, trust, joint venture or other legal entity.
VEGETATED WETLANDS. Lands lying between and contiguous to mean low water and an elevation above mean low water equal to the factor one and one-half times the mean tide range at the site of the proposed project in the county, city, or town in question, and upon which is growing any of the following species: saltmarsh cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora), saltmeadow hay (Spartina patens), saltgrass (Distichlis spicata), black needlerush (Juncus roemerianus), saltwort (Salicornia spp.), sea lavender (Limonium spp.), marsh elder (Iva frutescens), groundsel bush (Baccharis halimifolia), 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 (Zizaniopsis miliacea), cattail (Typha spp.), three-square (Scirpus spp.), buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis), bald cypress (Taxodium distichum), black gum (Nyssa sylvatica), tupelo (Nyssa aquatica), dock(Rumex spp.), yellow pond lily (Nuphar sp.), marsh fleabane (Pluchea purpurascens), royal fern (Osmunda regalis), marsh hibiscus (Hibiscus moscheutos), beggar’s tick (Bidens sp.), smartweed (Polygonum sp.), arrowhead (Sagittaria spp.), sweet flag (Acorus calamus), water hemp (Amaranthus cannabinus), reed grass (Phragmites communis), or switch grass (Panicum virgatum).
WETLANDS BOARD or BOARD. A board created pursuant to VA Code § 28.2-1303.
WETLANDS. Both vegetated and nonvegetated wetlands.
(Ord. passed 4-12-1993; Am. Ord. passed 5-14- 2013; Am. Ord. passed 12-11-2023)