CODE OF VIRGINIA DEFINITIONS (§ 2.2-3400) As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:”Agency” means any state board, department, commission, agency or other unit of state government except a county, city, town or any agency thereof.”Deaf person” means any person whose hearing is so seriously impaired as to prohibit the person from understanding oral communications spoken in a normal conversational tone. HISTORY: 1978, c. 602, § 2.1-570; 2001, c. 844.