Terms Used In New York Laws > Highway > Article 12 - State Routes

• Acquittal:
  1. Judgement that a criminal defendant has not been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
  2. A verdict of "not guilty."
   
• Addict: means a person who habitually uses a controlled substance for a non-legitimate or unlawful use, and who by reason of such use is dependent thereon. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
• Administer: means the direct application of a controlled substance, whether by injection, inhalation, ingestion, or any other means, to the body of a patient or research subject. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
• Advertisement: means the publication, dissemination, circulation, or placing before the public, or causing directly or indirectly to be made, published, disseminated, or placed before the public, any announcement or statement in a newspaper, magazine, or other publication, or in the form of a book, notice, circular, pamphlet, letter, hand-bill, poster, bill, sign, placard, card, label, tag, or by radio or television or any other means. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3400
• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• 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.
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Agent: means an authorized person who acts on behalf of or at the direction of a manufacturer, distributor, or dispenser. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
• Aging in place: means , care and services at a facility which possesses an enhanced assisted living certificate which, to the extent practicable, within the scope of services set forth in the written residency agreement executed pursuant to section four thousand six hundred fifty-eight of this article, accommodates a resident's changing needs and preferences in order to allow such resident to be admitted to or remain in the residence as long as the residence is able and authorized to accommodate the resident's current and changing needs. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4651*2
• 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.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• 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.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• Applicant: means a for-profit entity or not-for-profit corporation and includes: board members, officers, managers, owners, partners, principal stakeholders and members who submit an application to become a registered organization. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3360
• 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
• approved: as used in this title shall mean a provider who is approved by the department in accordance with department regulations and has entered into an agreement with the department for the provision of evaluations, service coordination or early intervention services. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2550
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• assisted living residence: means an entity which provides or arranges for housing, on-site monitoring, and personal care services and/or home care services (either directly or indirectly), in a home-like setting to five or more adult residents unrelated to the assisted living provider. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4651*2
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Birth-related neurological injury: means an injury to the brain or spinal cord of a live infant caused by the deprivation of oxygen or mechanical injury occurring in the course of labor, delivery or resuscitation, or by other medical services provided or not provided during delivery admission, that rendered the infant with a permanent and substantial motor impairment or with a developmental disability as that term is defined by § 1. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2999-H
• Board: means the board of examiners of nursing home administrators as provided for in this article. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2895-A
• Burial: includes transportation and/or cremation. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3400
• By means of the internet: means any sale, delivery, distribution, or dispensing of a controlled substance that uses the internet, is initiated by use of the internet or causes the internet to be used. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
• Certification: means a certification, made under section thirty-three hundred sixty-one of this title. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3360
• Certified medical use: means the acquisition, possession, use, or, transportation of medical marihuana by a certified patient, or the acquisition, possession, delivery, transportation or administration of medical marihuana by a designated caregiver, for use as part of the treatment of the patient's serious condition, as authorized in a certification under this title including enabling the patient to tolerate treatment for the serious condition. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3360
• Certified patient: means a patient who is a resident of New York state or receiving care and treatment in New York state as determined by the commissioner in regulation, and is certified under section thirty-three hundred sixty-one of this title. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3360
• Chambers: A judge's office.
• child born out of wedlock: when used in this article, refers to a child whose father is not its mother's husband. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4135
• Children at risk: means children who may experience a disability because of medical, biological or environmental factors which may produce developmental delay, as determined by the commissioner through regulation. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2541
• Children with physical disabilities: means any persons under twenty-one years of age who are disabled by reason of a defect or disability, whether congenital or acquired by accident, injury, or disease, or who are suffering from long-term disease, including, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, chronic granulomatous, cystic fibrosis, epidermolysis bullosa, muscular dystrophy, nephrosis, rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease, blood dyscrasies, cancer, lymphatic diseases, including, but not limited to: insufficiency of lymphatic circulatory function (to include all forms of lymphedema, both primary and secondary); lipedema; complex vascular diseases of the lymphatic vasculature, including lymphangiomatosis, lymphangioleio-myomatosis, lymphangiectasias, lymphangiomas, cystic hygromas, Gorham's disease, lymphangiosarcoma, and complex vascular/lymphatic malformations and syndromes, brain injured, and chronic asthma, or from any disease or condition likely to result in a disability in the absence of treatment, provided, however, no child shall be deprived of a service under the provisions of this chapter solely because of the degree of developmental disability. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2581
• Commissioner: means commissioner of health of the state of New York. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Compounding: means the combining, admixing, mixing, diluting, pooling, reconstituting, or otherwise altering of a drug or bulk drug substance to create a drug with respect to an outsourcing facility under section 503B of the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act and further defined in this section. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Controlled substance: means a substance or substances listed in section thirty-three hundred six of this title. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
• Controlling person: means any person who by reason of a direct or indirect ownership interest (whether of record or beneficial) has the ability, acting either alone or in concert with others with ownership interests, to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of said corporation, partnership, or other entity. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4360
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Coordinated standards and procedures: means standards and procedures developed by state early intervention service agencies pursuant to section twenty-five hundred fifty-one of this title. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2541
• 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 early intervention coordinating council established under section twenty-five hundred fifty-three of this title. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2541
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• delivery: means the actual, constructive or attempted transfer from one person to another of a controlled substance, whether or not there is an agency relationship. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
• Department: means the department of health of the state of New York. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Designated caregiver: means the individual designated by a certified patient in a registry application. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3360
• Developmental delay: means that a child has not attained developmental milestones expected for the child's chronological age, as measured by qualified professionals using appropriate diagnostic instruments and/or procedures and informed clinical opinion, in one or more of the following areas of development: cognitive, physical, communication, social or emotional, or adaptive. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2541
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Direct supervision: means a physician must be present in the section of the facility where the procedure is being performed and is not concurrently encumbered by responsibilities that would preclude the physician from responding to a request for assistance within a timeframe that poses no risk to the patient. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3501
• Disability: means :
  
  (a) a developmental delay; or
  
  (b) a diagnosed physical or mental condition that has a high probability of resulting in developmental delay, such as Down syndrome or other chromosomal abnormalities, sensory impairments, inborn errors of metabolism or fetal alcohol syndrome. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2541
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Dispense: means to deliver a controlled substance to an ultimate user or research subject by lawful means, including by means of the internet, and includes the packaging, labeling, or compounding necessary to prepare the substance for such delivery. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
• Distribute: means to deliver a controlled substance, including by means of the internet, other than by administering or dispensing. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
• Distributor: means a person who distributes a controlled substance. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
• Diversion: means manufacture, possession, delivery or use of a controlled substance by a person or in a manner not specifically authorized by law. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Drug: means
  
  (a) substances recognized as drugs in the official United States Pharmacopoeia, official Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States, or official National Formulary, or any supplement to any of them;
  
  (b) substances intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in man or animals; and
  
  (c) substances (other than food) intended to affect the structure or a function of the body of man or animal. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
• Early intervention official: means an appropriate municipal official designated by the chief executive officer of a municipality and an appropriate designee of such official. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2541
• Early intervention services: means developmental services that:
  
  (a) are provided under public supervision;
  
  (b) are selected in collaboration with the parents;
  
  (c) are designed to meet a child's developmental needs in any one or more of the following areas:
  
  (i) physical development, including vision and hearing,
  
  (ii) cognitive development,
  
  (iii) communication development,
  
  (iv) social or emotional development, or
  
  (v) adaptive development;
  
  (d) meet the coordinated standards and procedures;
  
  (e) are provided by qualified personnel;
  
  (f) are provided in conformity with an IFSP;
  
  (g) are, to the maximum extent appropriate, provided in natural environments, including the home and community settings where children without disabilities would participate;
  
  (h) include, as appropriate:
  
  (i) family training, counseling, home visits and parent support groups,
  
  (ii) special instruction,
  
  (iii) speech pathology and audiology,
  
  (iv) occupational therapy,
  
  (v) physical therapy,
  
  (vi) psychological services,
  
  (vii) case management services, hereafter referred to as service coordination services,
  
  (viii) medical services for diagnostic or evaluation purposes, subject to reasonable prior approval requirements for exceptionally expensive services, as prescribed by the commissioner,
  
  (ix) early identification, screening, and assessment services,
  
  (x) health services necessary to enable the infant or toddler to benefit from the other early intervention services,
  
  (xi) nursing services,
  
  (xii) nutrition services,
  
  (xiii) social work services,
  
  (xiv) vision services,
  
  (xv) assistive technology devices and assistive technology services,
  
  (xvi) transportation and related costs that are necessary to enable a child and the child's family to receive early intervention services, and
  
  (xvii) other appropriate services approved by the commissioner. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2541
• Electronic: means of or relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic or similar capabilities. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
• Electronic prescription: means a prescription issued with an electronic signature and transmitted by electronic means in accordance with regulations of the commissioner and the commissioner of education and consistent with federal requirements. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
• Electronic record: means a paperless record that is created, generated, transmitted, communicated, received or stored by means of electronic equipment and includes the preservation, retrieval, use and disposition in accordance with regulations of the commissioner and the commissioner of education and in compliance with federal law and regulations. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
• Electronic signature: means an electronic sound, symbol, or process, attached to or logically associated with an electronic record and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the record, in accordance with regulations of the commissioner and the commissioner of education. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
• Eligible child: means an infant or toddler from birth through age two who has a disability; provided, however, that any toddler with a disability who has been determined to be eligible for program services under § 4410 of the education law and:
  
  (i) who turns three years of age on or before the thirty-first day of August shall, if requested by the parent, be eligible to receive early intervention services contained in an IFSP until the first day of September of that calendar year; or
  
  (ii) who turns three years of age on or after the first day of September shall, if requested by the parent and if already receiving services pursuant to this title, be eligible to continue receiving such services until the second day of January of the following calendar year. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2541
• Eligible institution: means any child or adult day care institution defined in federal law, rule or regulations eligible to receive cash assistance under the federal child care and adult food program. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2586
• Embalmer: means a person to whom a valid license as such has been duly issued. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3400
• Embalming: means preparing, disinfecting and preserving, either hypodermically, arterially or by any other recognized means the body of a deceased person for burial, cremation or other final disposition. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3400
• Embalming fluid: means any chemicals or substances manufactured primarily for use by licensed funeral directors, undertakers or embalmers, or registered residents, to prepare, disinfect or preserve, either hypodermically, arterially or by any other recognized means the body of a deceased person for burial, cremation or other final disposition. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3400
• 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}
• Evaluation: means a multidisciplinary professional, objective assessment conducted by appropriately qualified personnel and conducted pursuant to section twenty-five hundred forty-four of this title to determine a child's eligibility under this title. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2541
• Evaluator: means a team of two or more professionals approved pursuant to section twenty-five hundred fifty-one of this title to conduct screenings and evaluations. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2541
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Federal agency: means the Drug Enforcement Administration, United States Department of Justice, or its successor agency. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
• Federal controlled substances act: means the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, Public Law 91-513, and any act or acts amendatory or supplemental thereto or regulations promulgated thereunder. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
• Federal registration number: means such number assigned by the Federal agency to any person authorized to manufacture, distribute, sell, dispense or administer controlled substances. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• 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.
• Form of medical marihuana: means characteristics of the medical marihuana recommended or limited for a particular certified patient, including the method of consumption and any particular strain, variety, and quantity or percentage of marihuana or particular active ingredient. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3360
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Fund: means the New York state medical indemnity fund. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2999-H
• Funeral directing: means the care and disposal of the body of a deceased person and/or the preserving, disinfecting and preparing by embalming or otherwise, the body of a deceased person for funeral services, transportation, burial or cremation; and/or funeral directing or embalming as presently known whether under these titles or designations or otherwise. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3400
• Funeral director: means a person to whom a valid license as such has been duly issued. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3400
• Funeral establishment: means a single physical location, address or premises devoted to or used for the care and preparation of a body of a deceased person for disposition and for mourning or funeral ceremonial purposes. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3400
• Funeral firm: means an individual, partnership, corporation or estate representative engaged in the business and practice of funeral directing. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3400
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Grace period: The number of days you'll have to pay your bill for purchases in full without triggering a finance charge. ^{Source: Federal Reserve}
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Habitual user: means any person who is, or by reason of repeated use of any controlled substance for non-legitimate or unlawful use is in danger of becoming, dependent upon such substance. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
• IFSP: means the individualized family service plan adopted in accordance with section twenty-five hundred forty-five of this title. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2541
• Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
• Individual dose: means a single measure of raw medical marihuana or non-infused concentrates to be determined and clearly identified by a patient's practitioner for the patient's specific certified condition. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3360
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Institutional dispenser: means a hospital, veterinary hospital, clinic, dispensary, maternity home, nursing home, mental hospital or similar facility approved and certified by the department as authorized to obtain controlled substances by distribution and to dispense and administer such substances pursuant to the order of a practitioner. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
• Internet: as used in this article , also includes other networks, whether private or public, used to transmit information by electronic means. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
• Intravenous contrast administration certificate: means a certificate granted and issued by the department under this article to administer and inject contrast media. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3501
• 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.
• Jurisprudence: The study of law and the structure of the legal system.
• Labor peace agreement: means an agreement between an entity and a labor organization that, at a minimum, protects the state's proprietary interests by prohibiting labor organizations and members from engaging in picketing, work stoppages, boycotts, and any other economic interference with the registered organization's business. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3360
• Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
• Lead agency: means the department of health, the public agency responsible for the administration of the early intervention system in collaboration with the state early intervention service agencies. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2541
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• License: means a written authorization issued by the department or the New York state department of education permitting persons to engage in a specified activity with respect to controlled substances. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
• License: means a license granted and issued by the department under this article to practice radiography, radiation therapy technology or nuclear medicine technology. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3501
• Licensed practitioner: means a person licensed or otherwise authorized under the education law to practice medicine, dentistry, podiatry, or chiropractic. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3501
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Living donation: means the gift by an individual of an organ of that individual's body to be transplanted into another individual's body, the gift to be executed while the donating individual is living and with the intent that the donating individual will continue to live after the execution of the gift. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4370
• Living donor: means : (a) an individual who makes a living donation; or
  
  (b) an individual who incurs expenses as part of the living donation screening and evaluation process but that, through no decision or judgment of their own, does not become an actual living donor. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4370
• Living donor expenses: means financial costs incurred by a living donor that arise due to the act of living donation and its consequences, that are subject to reimbursement under section forty-three hundred seventy-one of this title. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4370
• Manufacture: means the production, preparation, propagation, compounding, cultivation, conversion or processing of a controlled substance, either directly or indirectly or by extraction from substances of natural origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis, and includes any packaging or repackaging of the substance or labeling or relabeling of its container, except that this term does not include the preparation, compounding, packaging or labeling of a controlled substance:
  
  (a) by a practitioner as an incident to his administering or dispensing of a controlled substance in the course of his professional practice; or
  
  (b) by a practitioner, or by his authorized agent under his supervision, for the purpose of, or as an incident to, research, teaching, or chemical analysis and not for sale; or
  
  (c) by a pharmacist as an incident to his dispensing of a controlled substance in the course of his professional practice. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
• Medical marihuana: means marihuana as defined in subdivision twenty-one of section thirty-three hundred two of this article, intended for a certified medical use, as determined by the commissioner in his or her sole discretion. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3360
• Medical service: means such diagnostic, therapeutic, and rehabilitative care by medical and paramedical personnel, including hospital and related care, and drugs, prostheses, appliances, equipment and devices as necessary. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2581
• Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
• Municipality: means a county outside the city of New York or the city of New York in the case of a county contained within the city of New York. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2541
• Non-transplant organ: means an organ procured for education or research purposes. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4360
• Nuclear medicine technologist: means a person who is licensed under this article to practice nuclear medicine technology. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3501
• Nuclear medicine technology: means the use of radiopharmaceuticals administered to human beings for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes under the supervision of a physician authorized by a radioactive materials license. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3501
• Nursing home: means a facility issued an operating certificate as a nursing home pursuant to article twenty-eight of this chapter. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2895-A
• Nursing home administrator: means an individual who is charged with and has responsibility for the general administration of a nursing home whether or not such individual has an ownership interest in such home and whether or not his functions and duties are shared with one or more other individuals. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2895-A
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• 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.
• Online dispenser: means a practitioner, pharmacy, or person in the United States that sells, delivers or dispenses, or offers to sell, deliver, or dispense, a controlled substance by means of the internet. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
• Opiate: means any substance having an addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphine or being capable of conversion into a drug having addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
• Opium poppy: means the plant of the species Papaver somniferum L. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
• Organ: means a human kidney, heart, heart valve, lung, pancreas, liver or any other organ designated by the commissioner in regulation in consultation with the transplant council. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4360
• Outsourcing facility: means a facility that:
  
  (a) is engaged in the compounding of sterile drugs as defined in § 6802 of the education law;
  
  (b) is currently registered as an outsourcing facility pursuant to Article one hundred thirty-seven of the education law; and
  
  (c) complies with all applicable requirements of federal and state law, including the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Paired donation: means a living donation in which the living donor's organ is incompatible with the ultimate intended recipient and the living donor's organ is transplanted into another recipient, and in turn another living donor makes a living donation, directly or through one or more paired donations, to the ultimate intended recipient of the initial living donor. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4370
• Parent: means parent or person in parental relation to the child. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2541
• 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 individual, institution, corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, or any other legal entity. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
• Person: means an individual, corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency other than the office of mental health, business trust, estate trust, partnership or association, or any other legal entity. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4360
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Personal supervision: means the physician must be in attendance in the room during the performance of the procedure. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3501
• Pharmacist: means any person licensed by the state department of education to practice pharmacy. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
• Pharmacy: means any place registered as such by the New York state board of pharmacy and registered with the Federal agency pursuant to the federal controlled substances act. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Poppy straw: means all parts, except the seeds, of the opium poppy, after mowing. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
• Practitioner: means :
  
  A physician, dentist, podiatrist, veterinarian, scientific investigator, or other person licensed, or otherwise permitted to dispense, administer or conduct research with respect to a controlled substance in the course of a licensed professional practice or research licensed pursuant to this article. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
• Practitioner: means a practitioner who (i) is a physician licensed by New York state and practicing within the state, (ii) who by training or experience is qualified to treat a serious condition as defined in subdivision seven of this section; and (iii) has completed a two to four hour course as determined by the commissioner in regulation and registered with the department; provided however, a registration shall not be denied without cause. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3360
• Preliminary hearing: A hearing where the judge decides whether there is enough evidence to make the defendant have a trial.
• Prescribe: means a direction or authorization, by prescription, permitting an ultimate user lawfully to obtain controlled substances from any person authorized by law to dispense such substances. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
• Prescription: shall mean an official New York state prescription, an electronic prescription, an oral prescription or an out-of-state prescription. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
• prescription monitoring program registry: means the prescription monitoring program registry established pursuant to section thirty-three hundred forty-three-a of this article. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
• Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
• procurement activity: means any activity which is necessary for the procurement of organs or tissue for transplantation, research, education, therapy, fertilization, or autologous purposes including solicitation, retrieval, donor selection and testing, clinical laboratory testing, including typing, preservation, transportation, allocation, distribution, storage, and payment activities. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4360
• procurement organization: means a person, facility, or institution engaged in procuring organs for transplantation or therapy purposes, but does not include (a) facilities or institutions which permit procurement activities to be conducted on their premises by employees or agents of an approved organ procurement organization, or (b) facilities or consortia of facilities which conduct transplantation activities in accordance with article twenty-eight of this chapter when the organ is procured through an approved organ procurement organization, licensed bank or storage facility, or a living donor. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4360
• Professional medical physicist: means a person licensed or otherwise authorized to practice medical physics in accordance with Article one hundred sixty-six of the education law. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3501
• Program: means the federal child care and adult food program. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2586
• program: means the living donor support program established under section forty-three hundred seventy-one of this title. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4370
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Public place: means a public place as defined in regulation by the commissioner. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3360
• Qualified personnel: means :
  
  (a) persons holding a state approved or recognized certificate, license or registration in one of the following fields:
  
  (i) special education teachers;
  
  (ii) speech and language pathologists and audiologists;
  
  (iii) occupational therapists;
  
  (iv) physical therapists;
  
  (v) social workers;
  
  (vi) nurses;
  
  (vii) dieticians or nutritionists;
  
  (viii) other persons designated by the commissioner who meet requirements that apply to the area in which the person is providing early intervention services, where not in conflict with existing professional licensing, certification and/or registration requirements. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2541
• Qualified plaintiff: means every plaintiff or claimant who (i) has been found by a jury or court to have sustained a birth-related neurological injury as the result of medical malpractice, or (ii) has sustained a birth-related neurological injury as the result of alleged medical malpractice, and has settled his or her lawsuit or claim therefor; and (iii) has been ordered to be enrolled in the fund by a court in New York state. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2999-H
• Qualifying health care costs: means the future medical, hospital, surgical, nursing, dental, rehabilitation, habilitation, respite, custodial, durable medical equipment, home modifications, assistive technology, vehicle modifications, transportation for purposes of health care related appointments, prescription and non-prescription medications, and other health care costs actually incurred for services rendered to and supplies utilized by qualified plaintiffs, which are necessary to meet their health care needs, as determined by their treating physicians, physician assistants, or nurse practitioners and as otherwise defined by the commissioner in regulation. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2999-H
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Radiation oncologist: means a physician duly licensed to practice medicine in the state of New York and who is certified by the American Board of Radiology or by the American Osteopathic Board of Radiology in radiation oncology. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3501
• Radiation therapy: means the use of external beam and remote afterloading brachytherapy equipment for the application of ionizing radiation to human beings for therapeutic purposes under the supervision of a radiation oncologist. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3501
• Radiographer: means a person, other than a licensed practitioner, who is licensed under this article to practice radiography. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3501
• Radiography: means the use of x-rays or x-ray producing equipment on human beings for diagnostic purposes under the supervision of a licensed practitioner. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3501
• Radiologic technologist: means a person who is licensed under this article to practice radiography or radiation therapy or nuclear medicine. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3501
• Radiologic technology: means the practice of radiography, radiation therapy and nuclear medicine technology. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3501
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Registered organization: means a registered organization under sections thirty-three hundred sixty-four and thirty-three hundred sixty-five of this title. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3360
• Registered resident: means a person who passed a funeral directing examination and who is duly registered as such with the department while in the employ of a registered funeral firm and who is engaged in the practice of funeral directing under the supervision of a licensed funeral director or undertaker and embalmer; provided, however, that a registered resident shall not have authority to sign any form or document required by law which requires the signature of a licensed funeral director or make funeral arrangements or own or manage a funeral firm. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3400
• Registry application: means an application properly completed and filed with the department by a certified patient under section thirty-three hundred sixty-three of this title. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3360
• Registry identification card: means a document that identifies a certified patient or designated caregiver, as provided under section thirty-three hundred sixty-three of this title. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3360
• 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.
• Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
• Resident: means an adult not related to the provider, who, pursuant to a residency agreement with a provider resides in an assisted living or enhanced assisted living residence, as applicable. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4651*2
• Sell: means to sell, exchange, give or dispose of to another, or offer or agree to do the same. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
• Serious condition: means :
  
  (i) having one of the following severe debilitating or life-threatening conditions: cancer, positive status for human immunodeficiency virus or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, damage to the nervous tissue of the spinal cord with objective neurological indication of intractable spasticity, epilepsy, inflammatory bowel disease, neuropathies, Huntington's disease, post-traumatic stress disorder, pain that degrades health and functional capability where the use of medical marihuana is an alternative to opioid use, substance use disorder, or as added by the commissioner; and
  
  (ii) any of the following conditions where it is clinically associated with, or a complication of, a condition under this paragraph or its treatment: cachexia or wasting syndrome; severe or chronic pain; severe nausea; seizures; severe or persistent muscle spasms; or such conditions as are added by the commissioner. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3360
• Service area: means the geographic area of service approved by the secretary of health and human services, or, in the absence of such approval, by the department. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4360
• Service coordinator: means a person who:
  
  (a) meets the qualifications established in federal law and regulation and demonstrates knowledge and understanding of:
  
  (i) infants and toddlers who may be eligible for services under this title;
  
  (ii) principles of family-centered services;
  
  (iii) part H of the federal individuals with disabilities education act and its corresponding regulations;
  
  (iv) the nature and scope of services available under this title; and
  
  (v) the requirements for authorizing and paying for such services and other pertinent information;
  
  (b) is responsible for:
  
  (i) assisting eligible children and their families in gaining access to services listed on the IFSP;
  
  (ii) coordinating early intervention services with other services such as medical and health services provided to the child;
  
  (iii) coordinating the performance of evaluations and assessments;
  
  (iv) participating in the development, monitoring and evaluation of the IFSP;
  
  (v) assisting the parent in identifying available service providers;
  
  (vi) coordinating service delivery;
  
  (vii) informing the family of advocacy services;
  
  (viii) where appropriate, facilitating the transition of the child to other appropriate services; and
  
  (ix) assisting in resolving any disputes which may arise between the family and service providers, as necessary and appropriate; and
  
  (c) meets such other standards as are specified pursuant to section twenty-five hundred fifty-one of this title. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2541
• 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.
• Special certification: means a special certification made under subdivision nine of section thirty-three hundred sixty-one of this title. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3360
• State early intervention service agencies: means the departments of health, education and social services and the offices of mental health and alcoholism and substance abuse services and the office for people with developmental disabilities. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2541
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
• storage facility: means any person or facility, which procures, stores or arranges for the storage of (a) non-transplant organs, or (b) tissue for transplantation, therapy, education, research, or fertilization purposes, including autologous procedures. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4360
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Supervision: means the oversight of a licensed radiologic technologist by a licensed practitioner acting within the limits specified in the law under which the practitioner is licensed. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3501
• Terminally ill: means an individual has a medical prognosis that the individual's life expectancy is approximately one year or less if the illness runs its normal course. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3360
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Tissue: means a human eye, skin, bone, bone marrow, heart valve, spermatozoon, ova, artery, vein, tendon, ligament, pituitary gland or a fluid other than blood or a blood derivative. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4360
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Ultimate user: means a person who lawfully obtains and possesses a controlled substance for his own use or the use by a member of his household or for an animal owned by him or in his custody. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
• Undertaker: means a person to whom a valid license as such has been duly issued. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3400
• Undertaking: means the care, disposal, transportation, burial or cremation by any means other than embalming of the body of a deceased person. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3400
• X-ray or imaging procedure: means and includes conventional diagnostic x-ray or radiology, computer tomography, angiography, magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasound. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3501
• Year: shall mean the twelve-month period commencing July first unless otherwise specified. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2541