Terms Used In New York Laws > Civil Service > Article 3 > Title A - Unclassified Service

• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• Concurrent resolution: A legislative measure, designated "S. Con. Res." and numbered consecutively upon introduction, generally employed to address the sentiments of both chambers, to deal with issues or matters affecting both houses, such as a concurrent budget resolution, or to create a temporary joint committee. Concurrent resolutions are not submitted to the President/Governor and thus do not have the force of law.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Dog: means any member of the species canis familiaris. See N.Y. Agriculture and Markets Law 108
• Joint session: When both chambers of a legislature adopt a concurrent resolution to meet together.
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Municipality: means any county, town, city and village. See N.Y. Agriculture and Markets Law 108
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.