As used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning:
"Authority" means the Virginia Resources Authority.
"Cost," as applied to any project financed under the provisions of this article, means the total of all costs incurred by the local government as reasonable and necessary for carrying out all works and undertakings necessary or incident to the accomplishment of any project.
"Department" means the Virginia Department of Emergency Management.
"Fund" means the Virginia Shoreline Resiliency Fund.
"Local government" means any county, city, town, municipal corporation, authority, district, commission, or political subdivision created by the General Assembly or pursuant to the Constitution of Virginia or laws of the Commonwealth.
2016, c. 762.