Terms Used In New York Laws > General Municipal > Article 12-B - County Planning Boards and Regional Planning Councils

• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• 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
• County comprehensive plan: means the materials, written and/or graphic, including but not limited to maps, charts, studies, resolutions, reports and other descriptive material that identify the goals, objectives, principles, guidelines, policies, standards, devices and instruments for the immediate and long-range protection, enhancement, growth and development of the county, as may be prepared pursuant to section two hundred thirty-nine-d of this article. See N.Y. General Municipal Law 239-B
• County legislative body: means the board of supervisors of a county, the county legislature, the county board of representatives, or other body vested by its charter or other law with jurisdiction to enact local laws or resolutions. See N.Y. General Municipal Law 239-B
• County planning board: means a county planning board established pursuant to section two hundred thirty-nine-c of this article. See N.Y. General Municipal Law 239-B
• 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.
• Municipal legislative body: means the town board of a town, the board of trustees of a village; the board of aldermen, common council, council or commission of a city; and other elective governing board or body now or hereafter vested by state statute, charter or other law with jurisdiction to initiate and adopt local laws or ordinances. See N.Y. General Municipal Law 239-B
• Municipality: means a city, village, or that portion of a town located outside the limits of any city or village. See N.Y. General Municipal Law 239-B
• 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.
• Region: means an area which encompasses a regional planning council. See N.Y. General Municipal Law 239-B
• Regional comprehensive plan: means the materials, written and/or graphic, including but not limited to maps, charts, studies, resolutions, reports and other descriptive material that identify the goals, objectives, principles, guidelines, policies, standards, devices and instruments for the immediate and long-range protection, enhancement, growth and development of the region, as may be prepared pursuant to section two hundred thirty-nine-i of this article. See N.Y. General Municipal Law 239-B
• Regional planning council: means a council established pursuant to section two hundred thirty-nine-h of this article. See N.Y. General Municipal Law 239-B
• Special board: means a board consisting of one or more members of the county planning board and such other members as are appointed by the county legislative body to prepare a proposed county comprehensive plan or an amendment thereto. See N.Y. General Municipal Law 239-B
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.