Terms Used In New York Laws > Environmental Conservation > Article 27 > Title 19 - Waste Tire Management and Recycling

• Abatement: means the removal of a sufficient number of waste tires from a noncompliant waste tire stockpile and restoration of the site to a condition that is in substantial compliance with the rules and regulations administered by the department for waste tire storage facilities. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1901
• Beneficial use: means the use of solid waste material, which would otherwise need to be placed in a landfill or disposed of through alternative means, in such a manner that the nature of the use of the material constitutes a reuse rather than disposal. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1901
• 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.
• End use: means that a product requires no further processing or manufacturing and is used by a consumer for the product's intended application. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1901
• End user: means the ultimate customer of a finished product. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1901
• 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.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Motor Vehicle: means any device which by virtue of its design could qualify for registration pursuant to section four hundred one, four hundred ten, two thousand two hundred sixty-one, or two thousand two hundred eighty-two of the vehicle and traffic law. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1901
• New tires: means tires that have never been placed on a motor vehicle wheel rim or tires placed on a motor vehicle prior to its original retail sale. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1901
• Noncompliant waste tire stockpile: means a facility, including a waste tire storage facility, parcel of property, or site so designated by the department in accordance with this title, where one thousand or more waste tires or mechanically processed waste tires have been accumulated, stored or buried in a manner that the department or a court of competent jurisdiction has determined violates any judicial administrative order, decree, law, regulation, or permit or stipulation relating to waste tires, waste tire storage facilities or solid waste. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1901
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Recyclables: means solid waste materials that exhibit the potential to be used to make marketable products for end users. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1901
• Recycle: means to use recyclables in manufacturing a product for an end use other than burning for recovery of useable energy. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1901
• Retail sale: means the sale to any person in the state for any purpose other than resale. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1901
• Tire service: means any person or business in New York state who sells or installs new tires for use on any vehicle and any person or business who engages in the retail sale of new motor vehicles. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1901
• Waste tire: means any solid waste which consists of whole tires or portions of tires. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1901
• Waste tire storage facility: means a facility at which waste tires are stored and for which a permit or registration has been issued, pursuant to department regulations. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1901