Terms Used In New York Laws > Public Authorities > Article 5 > Title 6-B - Clifton Park Water Authority

• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Areas of public assembly: means all buildings or portions of buildings used for gathering together fifty or more persons for amusement, athletic, civic, dining, educational, entertainment, patriotic, political, recreational, religious, social, or similar purposes, the entire fire area of which they are a part, and the means of egress therefrom. See N.Y. Executive Law 372
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Building: means a combination of any materials, whether portable or fixed, having a roof, to form a structure affording shelter for persons, animals or property. See N.Y. Executive Law 372
• code: means the New York state uniform fire prevention and building code promulgated pursuant to section three hundred seventy-seven of this article. See N.Y. Executive Law 372
• Commissioner: shall mean the commissioner of children and family services, designated as the head of the office of children and family services by chapter four hundred thirty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred ninety-seven. See N.Y. Executive Law 412
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Construction: means the construction, reconstruction, alteration, conversion, repair, installation of equipment or use of buildings, and requirements or standards relating to or affecting materials used in connection therewith, including provisions for safety and sanitary conditions. See N.Y. Executive Law 372
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Council: means the state fire prevention and building code council created by this article. See N.Y. Executive Law 372
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Department: means the department of state. See N.Y. Executive Law 372
• Equipment: means plumbing, heating, electrical, ventilating, air conditioning, refrigerating equipment, elevators, dumb waiters, escalators and other mechanical additions or installations. See N.Y. Executive Law 372
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Fire protection equipment and systems: means apparatus, assemblies, or systems, either portable or fixed, for use to detect, prevent, control, or extinguish fire. See N.Y. Executive Law 372
• Flag: shall mean the flag of the United States of America. See N.Y. Executive Law 401
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• 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.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Local agency: shall include all county, city, town and village governing bodies, all other public corporations, special districts and school districts in the state. See N.Y. Executive Law 401
• Local government: means a village, town (outside the area of any incorporated village) or city. See N.Y. Executive Law 372
• Local youth bureau: shall mean a youth bureau, not included within the definition of municipal youth bureau pursuant to subdivision eight of this section, that engages in activities, including, but not limited to, the operation, administration or monitoring of youth development programs, throughout a particular village, town or city. See N.Y. Executive Law 412
• Means of egress: means a continuous unobstructed way of exit from any point in a building or structure to a public way. See N.Y. Executive Law 372
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Municipal youth bureau: shall mean either:
  
  a. See N.Y. Executive Law 412
• Municipality: shall mean a county, or a city having a population of one million or more. See N.Y. Executive Law 412
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Office: means the office of fire prevention and control created pursuant to article six-C of this chapter. See N.Y. Executive Law 372
• Office: shall mean the office of children and family services established in the department of family assistance by chapter four hundred thirty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred ninety-seven. See N.Y. Executive Law 412
• 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.
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Secretary: means the secretary of state. See N.Y. Executive Law 372
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• State aid: shall mean payments by the state to a municipality for or toward the cost of establishment, operation and/or maintenance of approved youth programs in accordance with the provisions of this article. See N.Y. Executive Law 412
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Truss type construction: means a fabricated structure of wood or steel, made up of a series of members connected at their ends to form a series of triangles to span a distance greater than would be possible with any of the individual members on their own. See N.Y. Executive Law 372
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Youth: shall mean any person under twenty-one years of age. See N.Y. Executive Law 412
• Youth development program: shall mean a local program designed to accomplish the broad purposes of this article subject to the rules and regulations of the office; provided however, the term "youth development program" shall not include approved runaway programs or transitional independent living support programs as such terms are defined in section five hundred thirty-two-a of this chapter. See N.Y. Executive Law 412