Terms Used In New York Laws > Public Authorities > Article 9 > Title 12-A - Public Authorities Lobbying Contacts

• contact: shall mean any conversation, in person or by telephonic or other remote means, or correspondence between any lobbyist engaged in the act of lobbying and any person within a state authority who can make or influence a decision on the subject of the lobbying on behalf of the authority, and shall include, at a minimum, all members of the governing board and all officers of the state authority. See N.Y. Public Authorities Law 2987
• 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.
• 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.
• lobbying: shall mean and include any attempt to influence:
  
  (i) the adoption or rejection of any rule or regulation having the force and effect of law by a public authority, and
  
  (ii) the outcome of any rate making proceeding by a public authority. See N.Y. Public Authorities Law 2987
• Political subdivision: means a municipal corporation, school district, district corporation and board of cooperative educational services. See N.Y. General Municipal Law 100
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.