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.
1978, c. 602, § 2.1-570; 2001, c. 844.