Terms Used In New York Laws > Environmental Conservation > Article 72 > Title 3 - Air Quality Control Program Fee

• Act: shall mean the Clean Air Act, 42 U. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 72-0301
• Actual emissions: means the emissions which were emitted to the ambient air, and shall include fugitive emissions if such emissions are considered in determining whether a source is a major air contamination source. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 72-0301
• Air contamination source: means all sources required to obtain a permit, certificate or approval pursuant to article nineteen of this chapter. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 72-0301
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Combustion installation: means one or more furnace, device, engine or turbine in which fossil fuel or wood is burned with air or oxygen and the air contaminant emissions include only those products resulting from:
  
  a. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 72-0301
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• 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.
• Division: means the division of criminal justice services as defined by § 837 of the executive law. See N.Y. Correction Law 168-A
• Emission point: means any conduit, chimney, duct, vent, flue, stack or other functionally equivalent opening through which regulated air contaminants are emitted to the ambient air. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 72-0301
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Fugitive emissions: means those emissions of a regulated air contaminant that could not reasonably pass through an emission point. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 72-0301
• Hospital: means : (a) a hospital as defined in subdivision two of section four hundred of this chapter and applies to persons committed to such hospital by order of commitment made pursuant to article sixteen of this chapter; or (b) a secure treatment facility as defined in § 10. See N.Y. Correction Law 168-A
• Incinerator: means any structure or furnace in which combustion takes place and type 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4 refuse, as classified in Table 1 of 6 NYCRR Appendix 2, is used as a fuel, alone or in conjunction with fossil fuel. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 72-0301
• Institution of higher education: means an institution in the state providing higher education as such term is defined in subdivision eight of § 2 of the education law. See N.Y. Correction Law 168-A
• Internet identifiers: means electronic mail addresses and designations used for the purposes of chat, instant messaging, social networking or other similar internet communication. See N.Y. Correction Law 168-A
• 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.
• Law enforcement agency having jurisdiction: means : (a) (i) the chief law enforcement officer in the village, town or city in which the offender expects to reside upon his or her discharge, probation, parole, release to post-release supervision or upon any form of state or local conditional release; or (ii) if there be no chief law enforcement officer in such village, town or city, the chief law enforcement officer of the county in which the offender expects to reside; or (iii) if there be no chief enforcement officer in such village, town, city or county, the division of state police and (b) in the case of a sex offender who is or expects to be employed by, enrolled in, attending or employed, whether for compensation or not, at an institution of higher education, (i) the chief law enforcement officer in the village, town or city in which such institution is located; or (ii) if there be no chief law enforcement officer in such village, town or city, the chief law enforcement officer of the county in which such institution is located; or (iii) if there be no chief law enforcement officer in such village, town, city or county, the division of state police; and (iv) if such institution operates or employs a campus law enforcement or security agency, the chief of such agency and (c) in the case of a sex offender who expects to reside within a state park or on other land under the jurisdiction of the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation, the state regional park police. See N.Y. Correction Law 168-A
• Local correctional facility: means a local correctional facility as that term is defined in subdivision sixteen of section two of this chapter. See N.Y. Correction Law 168-A
• Nonresident student: means a person required to register as a sex offender in another jurisdiction who is enrolled on a full-time or part-time basis in any public or private educational institution in this state including any secondary school, trade or professional institution or institution of higher education. See N.Y. Correction Law 168-A
• Nonresident worker: means any person required to register as a sex offender in another jurisdiction who is employed or carries on a vocation in this state, on either a full-time or a part-time basis, with or without compensation, for more than fourteen consecutive days, or for an aggregate period exceeding thirty days in a calendar year. See N.Y. Correction Law 168-A
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: means an individual, trust, firm, joint stock company, corporation (including a government corporation), partnership, association, state, federal government and any agency thereof, municipality, commission, political subdivision of a state or any interstate body. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 72-0301
• Potential to emit: means the maximum capacity of a stationary source to emit any regulated air contaminant under its physical and operational design. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 72-0301
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Process air contamination source: means :
  
  a. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 72-0301
• Severe ozone nonattainment area: means that part of the state designated pursuant to section 7407 of the Act as not meeting the national ambient air quality standard for ozone, as classified under section 7511 of the Act. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 72-0301
• Sex offender: includes any person who is convicted of any of the offenses set forth in subdivision two or three of this section. See N.Y. Correction Law 168-A
• Sexual predator: means a sex offender who has been convicted of a sexually violent offense defined in subdivision three of this section and who suffers from a mental abnormality or personality disorder that makes him or her likely to engage in predatory sexually violent offenses. See N.Y. Correction Law 168-A
• State air quality control program: means those activities of the department as specified in titles three and five of article nineteen of this chapter relating to air pollution and air contamination and any related enforcement activities. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 72-0301