§ 701 Board of directors
§ 702 Number of directors
§ 703 Election and term of directors
§ 704 Classification of directors
§ 705 Newly created directorships and vacancies
§ 706 Removal of directors
§ 707 Quorum of directors
§ 708 Action by the board
§ 709 Greater requirement as to quorum and vote of directors
§ 710 Place and time of meetings of the board
§ 711 Notice of meetings of the board
§ 712 Executive committee and other committees
§ 713 Interested directors
§ 714 Loans to directors
§ 715 Officers
§ 716 Removal of officers
§ 717 Duty of directors
§ 718 List of directors and officers
§ 719 Liability of directors in certain cases
§ 720 Action against directors and officers for misconduct
§ 721 Nonexclusivity of statutory provisions for indemnification of directors and officers
§ 722 Authorization for indemnification of directors and officers
§ 723 Payment of indemnification other than by court award
§ 724 Indemnification of directors and officers by a court
§ 725 Other provisions affecting indemnification of directors and officers
§ 726 Insurance for indemnification of directors and officers
§ 727 Annual reports for certain transactions required

Terms Used In New York Laws > Business Corporation > Article 7 - Directors and Officers

  • Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
  • 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.
  • Alcohol: means ethyl alcohol, hydrated oxide of ethyl or spirit of wine, from whatever source or by whatever process produced. See N.Y. Tax Law 420
  • 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.
  • Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
  • Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
  • 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.
  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • 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
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Automotive fuel: shall mean , solely for purposes of this article, diesel motor fuel as defined in subdivision fourteen of section two hundred eighty-two of this chapter and motor fuel as defined in subdivision two of section two hundred eighty-two of this chapter. See N.Y. Tax Law 501
  • Automotive fuel carrier: shall mean any carrier engaged in transporting automotive fuel. See N.Y. Tax Law 501
  • Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
  • Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
  • Basic cost of cigarettes: shall mean the invoice cost of cigarettes to the agent who purchases from the manufacturer, or the replacement cost of cigarettes to the agent, in the quantity last purchased, whichever is lower, less all trade discounts, except discounts for cash, to which shall be added the full face value of any stamps which may be required by law. See N.Y. Tax Law 483
  • 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
  • Bequest: Property gifted by will.
  • Biodiesel: shall mean either "qualified biodiesel" or "unqualified biodiesel. See N.Y. Tax Law 282
  • Brand owner: means any person who is a manufacturer of any liquor or wine for which a brand or trade name label has been registered with and approved by the state liquor authority pursuant to § 107-a of the alcoholic beverage control law. See N.Y. Tax Law 420
  • business capital: means all assets, other than investment capital and stock issued by the taxpayer, less liabilities not deducted from investment capital. See N.Y. Tax Law 208
  • business income: means entire net income minus investment income and other exempt income. See N.Y. Tax Law 208
  • calendar year: means a period of twelve calendar months (or any shorter period beginning on the date the taxpayer becomes subject to the tax imposed by this article) ending on the thirty-first day of December, provided the taxpayer keeps its books on the basis of such period or on the basis of any period ending on any day other than the last day of a calendar month, or provided the taxpayer does not keep books, and includes, in case the taxpayer changes the period on the basis of which it keeps its books from a fiscal year to a calendar year, the period from the close of its last old fiscal year up to and including the following December thirty-first. See N.Y. Tax Law 208
  • Carrier: shall include any person having the lawful use or control, or the right to the use or control of any vehicular unit in this state. See N.Y. Tax Law 501
  • Case law: The law as laid down in cases that have been decided in the decisions of the courts.
  • Chain store: shall mean any person or persons who owns or maintains fifteen or more retail outlets in New York state, having one hundred percent common ownership, through which cigarettes are sold at retail. See N.Y. Tax Law 483
  • Chambers: A judge's office.
  • Cigar: shall include , except where expressly excluded, any little cigar. See N.Y. Tax Law 470
  • CNG: means fuel comprised primarily of methane, stored in either a gaseous or liquid state, suitable for use and consumption in the engine of a motor vehicle. See N.Y. Tax Law 282
  • commercial fisherman: means a person licensed by an appropriate federal or state agency for the purpose of engaging in the commercial harvesting of fish and who is engaged in the business of harvesting fish for sale. See N.Y. Tax Law 300
  • commercial fishing vessel: means a vessel which is used directly and predominantly in the harvesting of fish for sale and, if such vessel is required to be documented with the United States Coast Guard, it is currently documented with the United States Coast Guard and has a current fisheries endorsement on such documentation. See N.Y. Tax Law 300
  • Commercial gallonage: means gallonage (1) which is non-highway diesel motor fuel or residual petroleum product, (2) which is included in the full measure of the non-highway diesel motor fuel component or the residual petroleum product component of the tax imposed under section three hundred one-a of this article, (3) which does not (and will not) qualify (A) for the utility credit or reimbursement provided for in section three hundred one-d of this article, (B) as "manufacturing gallonage" as such term is defined in subdivision (m) of this section, (C) for the not-for-profit organization exemption provided for in subdivision (h) of section three hundred one-b of this article, or (D) for the heating exemption provided for in paragraph two of subdivision (d) of section three hundred one-b of this article or the heating reimbursement provided for in paragraph two of subdivision (a) of section three hundred one-c of this article, and (4) which will not be used nor has been used in the fuel tank connecting with the engine of a vessel. See N.Y. Tax Law 300
  • Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
  • 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. See N.Y. Education Law 6842
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Cooperative member: shall mean any member of a "cooperative" as defined in subdivision (c) of § 3 of the cooperative corporations law, which operates a distribution center from which members purchase grocery products, including prepackaged food and non-food products such as paper products, soaps and detergents for resale and whose members sell cigarettes at retail through fifteen or more separate establishments in New York state. See N.Y. Tax Law 483
  • corporation: includes (a) an association within the meaning of paragraph three of subsection (a) of section seventy-seven hundred one of the internal revenue code (including a limited liability company), (b) a joint-stock company or association, (c) a publicly traded partnership treated as a corporation for purposes of the internal revenue code pursuant to section seventy-seven hundred four thereof and (d) any business conducted by a trustee or trustees wherein interest or ownership is evidenced by certificate or other written instrument. See N.Y. Tax Law 208
  • corporation: includes a corporation, joint-stock company or association and any business conducted by a trustee or trustees wherein interest or ownership is evidenced by certificate or other written instrument. See N.Y. Tax Law 300
  • 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.
  • cost of the agent: shall mean the basic cost of cigarettes plus the cost of doing business by the agent as evidenced by the accounting standards and methods regularly employed by said agent in his determination of costs for the purpose of federal income tax reporting for the total operation of his establishment, and must include, without limitation, labor, including salaries of executives and officers, rent, depreciation, selling costs, maintenance of equipment, delivery costs, interest payable, all types of licenses, taxes, insurance and advertising expressed as a percentage and applied to the basic cost of cigarettes. See N.Y. Tax Law 483
  • cost of the retail dealer: shall mean the basic cost of cigarettes plus the cost of doing business by the retail dealer as evidenced by the accounting standards and methods regularly employed by said retail dealer in his determination of costs for the purpose of federal income tax reporting for the total operation of his establishment, and shall include, without limitation, labor, including salaries of executives and officers, rent, depreciation, selling costs, maintenance of equipment, delivery costs, interest payable, all types of licenses, taxes, insurance and advertising expressed as a percentage and applied to the basic cost of cigarettes, plus the cost of doing business by the agent with respect to sales of cigarettes to retail dealers. See N.Y. Tax Law 483
  • cost of the wholesale dealer: shall mean the basic cost of cigarettes plus the cost of doing business by the wholesale dealer as evidenced by the accounting standards and methods regularly employed by said wholesale dealer in his determination of costs for the purpose of federal income tax reporting for the total operation of his establishment, and must include, without limitation, labor, including salaries of executives and officers, rent, depreciation, selling costs, maintenance of equipment, delivery costs, interest payable, all types of licenses, taxes, insurance and advertising expressed as a percentage and applied to the basic cost of cigarettes, plus the cost of doing business by the agent with respect to sales of cigarettes to wholesale dealers. See N.Y. Tax Law 483
  • Credit bureau: An agency that collects individual credit information and sells it for a fee to creditors so they can make a decision on granting loans. Typical clients include banks, mortgage lenders, credit card companies, and other financing companies. (Also commonly referred to as consumer-reporting agency or credit-reporting agency.) Source: OCC
  • Credit report: A detailed report of an individual's credit history prepared by a credit bureau and used by a lender in determining a loan applicant's creditworthiness. Source: OCC
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Dealer in firearms: means any person, firm, partnership, corporation or company who engages in the business of purchasing, selling, keeping for sale, loaning, leasing, or in any manner disposing of, any assault weapon, large capacity ammunition feeding device, pistol, revolver, or semiautomatic rifle. See N.Y. Penal Law 265.00
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
  • Descendent: One who is directly descended from another such as a child, grandchild, or great grandchild.
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Diesel motor fuel: shall mean No. See N.Y. Tax Law 282
  • diesel motor fuel: means such term as defined in subdivision fourteen of section two hundred eighty-two of this chapter, and

    (2) "highway diesel motor fuel" means such term as defined in subdivision sixteen-a of section two hundred eighty-two of this chapter, and

    (3) "non-highway diesel motor fuel" means such term as defined in subdivision sixteen of section two hundred eighty-two of this chapter. See N.Y. Tax Law 300
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • distributor: means any person, firm, association or corporation, who or which imports or causes to be imported into the state, for use, distribution, storage or sale within the state, any motor fuel; and also any person, firm, association or corporation who or which produces, refines, manufactures or compounds motor fuel within the state. See N.Y. Tax Law 282
  • Distributor: when used with respect to alcoholic beverages other than liquors means any person who imports or causes to be imported into this state any such alcoholic beverages which are or will be offered for sale or used for any commercial purpose; any purchaser of warehouse receipts for such alcoholic beverages stored in a warehouse in this state who causes such beverages to be removed from such warehouse; and also any person who produces, distills, manufactures, brews, compounds, mixes or ferments any such alcoholic beverages within this state for sale, except (i) a person who manufactures, mixes or compounds such alcoholic beverages the ingredients of which consist only of alcoholic beverages on which the taxes imposed by this article have been paid, and (ii) a person who mixes or compounds such alcoholic beverages with non-alcoholic ingredients for sale and immediate consumption on the premises, who shall be a distributor only with respect to the ingredients which consist of alcoholic beverages upon which the taxes imposed by this article have not been paid. See N.Y. Tax Law 420
  • Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
  • Effective rate of tax: means , as to any state or U. See N.Y. Tax Law 208
  • Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) Source: OCC
  • entire board: means the total number of directors which the corporation would have if there were no vacancies. See N.Y. Business Corporation Law 702
  • entire net income: means total net income from all sources, which shall be presumably the same as the entire taxable income, which, except as hereinafter provided in this subdivision,

    (i) the taxpayer is required to report to the United States treasury department, or

    (ii) the taxpayer would have been required to report to the United States treasury department if it had not made an election under subchapter s of chapter one of the internal revenue code, or

    (iii) the taxpayer, in the case of a corporation which is exempt from federal income tax (other than the tax on unrelated business taxable income imposed under section 511 of the internal revenue code) but which is subject to tax under this article, would have been required to report to the United States treasury department but for such exemption, or

    (iv) in the case of an alien corporation that under any provision of the internal revenue code is not treated as a "domestic corporation" as defined in section seven thousand seven hundred one of such code is effectively connected with the conduct of a trade or business within the United States as determined under section 882 of the Internal Revenue Code. See N.Y. Tax Law 208
  • Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • excluded corporation: means a corporation subject to tax under sections one hundred eighty-three through one hundred eighty-six, inclusive, or article thirty-three of this chapter, or a foreign corporation not taxable by this state which, if it were taxable, would be subject to tax under any of such sections or article. See N.Y. Tax Law 208
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • exempt QSSS: means a QSSS exempt from tax under this article as provided in paragraph (k) of subdivision nine of this section, or a QSSS described in subclause (i) of clause (B) of subparagraph two of paragraph (k) of subdivision nine of this section, wherein the parent corporation of the QSSS is subject to tax under this article, and the assets, liabilities, income and deductions of the QSSS are treated as the assets, liabilities, income and deductions of the parent corporation. See N.Y. Tax Law 208
  • Exempt unitary corporation dividends: means those dividends from a corporation that is conducting a unitary business with the taxpayer but is not included in a combined report with the taxpayer, less, in the discretion of the commissioner, any interest deductions directly or indirectly attributable to such income. See N.Y. Tax Law 208
  • Exporting transporter: means any transporter who or which transports motor fuel in this state where such motor fuel is being exported from a point in this state to without this state. See N.Y. Tax Law 282
  • Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
  • Federal Reserve System: The central bank of the United States. The Fed, as it is commonly called, regulates the U.S. monetary and financial system. The Federal Reserve System is composed of a central governmental agency in Washington, D.C. (the Board of Governors) and twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks in major cities throughout the United States. Source: OCC
  • Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Filling station: shall include any place, location or station where motor fuel, highway Diesel motor fuel or water-white kerosene (exclusively for heating purposes in containers of no more than twenty gallons), is offered for sale at retail. See N.Y. Tax Law 282
  • filling station: shall mean any place, location or station where automotive fuel is offered for sale to a purchaser of such fuel, to be delivered directly to a vehicle propelled by any power other than muscular. See N.Y. Tax Law 501
  • Firearm: means (a) any pistol or revolver; or (b) a shotgun having one or more barrels less than eighteen inches in length; or (c) a rifle having one or more barrels less than sixteen inches in length; or (d) any weapon made from a shotgun or rifle whether by alteration, modification, or otherwise if such weapon as altered, modified, or otherwise has an overall length of less than twenty-six inches; or (e) an assault weapon; or (f) any other weapon that is not otherwise defined in this section containing any component that provides housing or a structure designed to hold or integrate any fire control component that is designed to or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by action of explosive. See N.Y. Penal Law 265.00
  • fiscal year: means a period of twelve calendar months (or any shorter period beginning on the date the taxpayer becomes subject to the tax imposed by this article) ending on the last day of any month other than December, provided the taxpayer keeps its books on the basis of such period, and includes, in case the taxpayer changes the period on the basis of which it keeps it books from a calendar year to a fiscal year or from one fiscal year to another fiscal year, the period from the close of its last old calendar or fiscal year up to the date designated as the close of its new fiscal year. See N.Y. Tax Law 208
  • 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.
  • Fixed base operator: means any person, firm, association or corporation, who or which engages in the sale of kero-jet fuel or aviation gasoline, or both, for airplanes from a fixed and permanent place at an airport within the state. See N.Y. Tax Law 282
  • Fixed Rate: Having a "fixed" rate means that the APR doesn't change based on fluctuations of some external rate (such as the "Prime Rate"). In other words, a fixed rate is a rate that is not a variable rate. A fixed APR can change over time, in several circumstances:
    • You are late making a payment or commit some other default, triggering an increase to a penalty rate
    • The bank changes the terms of your account and you do not reject the change.
    • The rate expires (if the rate was fixed for only a certain period of time).
  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying. The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute. Source: OCC
  • Gallon: means one hundred twenty-eight fluid ounces; "quart" means thirty-two fluid ounces. See N.Y. Tax Law 420
  • Ghost gun: means a firearm, rifle or shotgun that does not comply with the provisions of section 265. See N.Y. Penal Law 265.00
  • 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
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • Gross weight: shall mean the unloaded weight of the motor vehicle plus the unloaded weight of the heaviest motor vehicle, trailer, semi-trailer, dolly or other device to be drawn by such motor vehicle (determined in a manner similar to the method for determining the unloaded weight of a motor vehicle) plus the weight of the maximum load, exclusive of the weight of the driver and his helper, to be carried or drawn by such motor vehicle. See N.Y. Tax Law 501
  • 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.
  • Gunsmith: means any person, firm, partnership, corporation or company who engages in the business of repairing, altering, assembling, manufacturing, cleaning, polishing, engraving or trueing, or who performs any mechanical operation on, any firearm, large capacity ammunition feeding device or machine-gun. See N.Y. Penal Law 265.00
  • Hydrogen: means fuel comprised primarily of molecular hydrogen, stored in either a gaseous or liquid state, suitable for use and consumption in the engine of a motor vehicle. See N.Y. Tax Law 282
  • Importing transporter: means any transporter who or which transports motor fuel in the state where such motor fuel is being imported into the state for use, distribution, storage or sale in the state. See N.Y. Tax Law 282
  • Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. Source: FDIC
  • Indian nation or tribe: means one of the following New York state Indian nations or tribes: Cayuga Nation, Oneida Nation of New York, Onondaga Nation, Poospatuck or Unkechauge Nation, Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, Seneca Nation of Indians, Shinnecock Indian Nation, Tonawanda Band of Seneca and Tuscarora Nation. See N.Y. Tax Law 282
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Intangible property: Property that has no intrinsic value, but is merely the evidence of value such as stock certificates, bonds, and promissory notes.
  • Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. Source: OCC
  • Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
  • investment capital: means investments in stocks that (i) satisfy the definition of a capital asset under section 1221 of the internal revenue code at all times the taxpayer owned such stock during the taxable year, (ii) are held by the taxpayer for investment for more than one year, (iii) the dispositions of which are, or would be, treated by the taxpayer as generating long-term capital gains or losses under the internal revenue code, (iv) for stocks acquired on or after January first, two thousand fifteen, at any time after the close of the day in which they are acquired, have never been held for sale to customers in the regular course of business, and (v) before the close of the day on which the stock was acquired, are clearly identified in the taxpayer's records as stock held for investment in the same manner as required under section 1236(a)(1) of the internal revenue code for the stock of a dealer in securities to be eligible for capital gain treatment (whether or not the taxpayer is a dealer of securities subject to section 1236), provided, however, that for stock acquired prior to October first, two thousand fifteen that was not subject to section 1236(a) of the internal revenue code, such identification in the taxpayer's records must occur before October first, two thousand fifteen. See N.Y. Tax Law 208
  • investment income: means income, including capital gains in excess of capital losses, from investment capital, to the extent included in computing entire net income, less, in the discretion of the commissioner, any interest deductions allowable in computing entire net income which are directly or indirectly attributable to investment capital or investment income, provided, however, that in no case shall investment income exceed entire net income. See N.Y. Tax Law 208
  • Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
  • 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
  • Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Licensed pharmacist: means a person licensed to practice pharmacy pursuant to article one hundred thirty-seven of this title. See N.Y. Education Law 6842
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Liter: means a metric unit of capacity equal to one thousand cubic centimeters of alcoholic beverages and equivalent to thirty-three and eight hundred fourteen thousandths fluid ounces. See N.Y. Tax Law 420
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Manufacturing gallonage: means residual petroleum product or non-highway diesel motor fuel used and consumed directly and exclusively in the production of tangible personal property for sale by manufacturing, processing or assembly, but only if (i) all of such fuel or product is delivered on the manufacturing site, or (ii) the purchaser causes such fuel or product to be delivered to its manufacturing site. See N.Y. Tax Law 300
  • Markup: The process by which congressional committees and subcommittees debate, amend, and rewrite proposed legislation.
  • Microstamp: means a unique alphanumeric or geometric code that identifies the make, model, and serial number of a firearm. See N.Y. Penal Law 265.00
  • Microstamping-enabled pistol: means any semiautomatic pistol that contains a microstamping component. See N.Y. Penal Law 265.00
  • Morphine milligram equivalent: shall mean a unit multiplied by its strength per unit multiplied by the morphine milligram equivalent conversion factor. See N.Y. Tax Law 497
  • Morphine milligram equivalent conversion factor: shall mean that reference standard of a particular opioid as it relates in potency to morphine as determined by the commissioner of health. See N.Y. Tax Law 497
  • mortgage: as used in this article includes every mortgage or deed of trust which imposes a lien on or affects the title to real property, notwithstanding that such property may form a part of the security for the debt or debts secured thereby. See N.Y. Tax Law 250
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. Source: OCC
  • Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
  • Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
  • Motor fuel: means gasoline, benzol, reformulated blend stock for oxygenate blending, conventional blend stock for oxygenate blending, E85, fuel grade ethanol that meets the ASTM International active standards specifications D4806 or D4814 or other product which is suitable for use in operation of a motor vehicle engine. See N.Y. Tax Law 282
  • motor fuel: means such term as defined in subdivision two of section two hundred eighty-two of this chapter. See N.Y. Tax Law 300
  • Motor vehicle: means any vehicle propelled by any power other than muscular, except boats, road building machinery, power shovels, tractor cranes, tractors used exclusively for agricultural purposes and such vehicles as are run only on rails or tracks. See N.Y. Tax Law 282
  • Motor vehicle: shall include any automobile, truck, tractor or other self-propelled device, having a gross weight in excess of eighteen thousand pounds, or any truck having an unloaded weight in excess of eight thousand pounds, or any tractor, having an unloaded weight in excess of four thousand pounds, which is used upon the public highways otherwise than upon fixed rails or tracks. See N.Y. Tax Law 501
  • National Bank: A bank that is subject to the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. A national bank can be recognized because it must have "national" or "national association" in its name. Source: OCC
  • net book value: means cost reduced by accumulated depreciation shown on the books and records of the taxpayer and determined, in the case of a qualified power producer, in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles; and in the case of a qualified pipeline, in accordance with the taxpayer's regulatory reports filed with the federal energy regulatory commission or state department of public service. See N.Y. Tax Law 208
  • New York C corporation: means , with respect to any taxable year, a corporation subject to tax under this article which is not a New York S corporation, and any such year shall be denominated a "New York C year". See N.Y. Tax Law 208
  • New York S corporation: means , with respect to any taxable year, a corporation subject to tax under this article for which an election is in effect pursuant to subsection (a) of section six hundred sixty of this chapter for such year, any such year shall be denominated a "New York S year" and such election shall be denominated a "New York S election". See N.Y. Tax Law 208
  • New York S termination year: means any termination year which is not also an S termination year for federal purposes. See N.Y. Tax Law 208
  • Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
  • Non-highway Diesel motor fuel: means any Diesel motor fuel that is designated for use other than on a public highway (except for the use of the public highway by farmers to reach adjacent lands), and is dyed Diesel motor fuel as defined in subdivision eighteen-a of this section. See N.Y. Tax Law 282
  • Noncommercial importer: means a person other than a distributor who imports or causes to be imported into this state beers or wines, except that such person shall not be a noncommercial importer where such person imports or causes to be imported into this state such alcoholic beverages in the quantities and under the conditions provided by subdivision four of section four hundred twenty-four. See N.Y. Tax Law 420
  • Nonpublic school operator: shall mean any nonpublic elementary or secondary school which owns or leases and operates any vehicle solely and exclusively for its purposes. See N.Y. Tax Law 282
  • 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.
  • Omnibus carrier: shall mean every person engaged in operating an omnibus line subject to the supervision of the state department of public service under Article 3-a of the public service law, including every person operating omnibuses used for the transportation of school children under a contract made pursuant to the provisions of the education law. See N.Y. Tax Law 282
  • Opioid: shall mean an "opiate" as defined by subdivision twenty-three of § 3302 of the public health law and any natural, synthetic, or semisynthetic "narcotic drug" as defined by subdivision twenty-two of such section that has agonist, partial agonist, or agonist/antagonist morphine-like activities or effects similar to natural opium alkaloids, and any derivative, congener, or combination thereof listed in schedules II-V of § 3306 of the public health law. See N.Y. Tax Law 497
  • other exempt income: means the sum of exempt CFC income and exempt unitary corporation dividends. See N.Y. Tax Law 208
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Owner: shall include any person offering motor fuel for sale at retail. See N.Y. Tax Law 282
  • Owner: shall include any person selling or offering alcoholic beverages for sale at retail. See N.Y. Tax Law 420
  • 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.
  • passenger commuter ferry: means a vessel providing mass transportation service. See N.Y. Tax Law 300
  • Person: includes an individual, copartnership, limited liability company, society, association, corporation, joint stock company, and any combination of individuals and also an executor, administrator, receiver, trustee or other fiduciary. See N.Y. Tax Law 282
  • Person: includes an individual, copartnership, limited liability company, society, association, corporation, joint stock company, and any combination of individuals and also an executor, administrator, receiver, trustee or other fiduciary. See N.Y. Tax Law 420
  • Person: includes an individual, copartnership, limited liability company, society, association, corporation, joint stock company, and any combination of individuals and also an executor, administrator, receiver, trustee or other fiduciary. See N.Y. Tax Law 470
  • Person: shall include an individual, co-partner, limited liability company, society, association, corporation, joint stock company, lessee, and any combinations of individuals; an executor, administrator, receiver, trustee or other fiduciary. See N.Y. Tax Law 501
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • petroleum business: means : (1) With respect to motor fuel, every corporation and unincorporated business (i) importing motor fuel or causing motor fuel to be imported into the state for use, distribution, storage or sale in the state, or (ii) producing, refining, manufacturing or compounding motor fuel in the state. See N.Y. Tax Law 300
  • Pharmacy intern: means a person practicing under a limited permit pursuant to section sixty-eight hundred six of this title. See N.Y. Education Law 6842
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
  • Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
  • 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.
  • Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
  • Professional judgment: means professional decision-making by a licensed pharmacist, including, but not limited to, such activities as:

    a. See N.Y. Education Law 6842
  • Public highway: means public highway as defined in subdivision six of section five hundred one of this chapter. See N.Y. Tax Law 282
  • Public highway: shall include any public highway, street, avenue, road, public place, public driveway or any other public way; provided, however, that the term "public highway" as used in sections five hundred three and five hundred three-b of this Article of the thruway for which a fee, rental or charge for the use thereof, has been made by the thruway authority pursuant to the provisions of title nine of article two of the public authorities law. See N.Y. Tax Law 501
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • Purchaser: shall include , in addition to its usual meaning, the distributor in the case of transfer of motor fuel by a distributor from his, their or its stock, into a motor vehicle, or into a container from which motor fuel is supplied by the distributor to a motor vehicle or vehicles of the distributor or of others. See N.Y. Tax Law 282
  • QSSS: means a corporation which is a qualified subchapter S subsidiary as defined in subparagraph (B) of paragraph three of subsection (b) of section thirteen hundred sixty-one of the internal revenue code. See N.Y. Tax Law 208
  • Qualified biodiesel: means a diesel motor fuel substitute produced from nonpetroleum renewable resources that meets the registration requirements for fuels and fuel additives established by the Environmental Protection Agency under section 211 of the Clean Air Act (42 U. See N.Y. Tax Law 282
  • qualified pipeline: means a taxpayer which: (i) on December thirty-first, nineteen hundred ninety-nine, was subject to the ratemaking supervision of either the federal energy regulatory commission or the state department of public service, and (ii) for the year ending on December thirty-first, nineteen hundred ninety-nine, was subject to tax under sections one hundred eighty-three and one hundred eighty-four of this chapter on account of its being principally engaged in the business of pipeline transmission. See N.Y. Tax Law 208
  • qualified power producer: means a taxpayer which: (i) on December thirty-first, nineteen hundred ninety-nine, was not subject to the ratemaking supervision of the state department of public service, and (ii) for the year ending on December thirty-first, nineteen hundred ninety-nine, was subject to tax under former section one hundred eighty-six of this chapter on account of its being principally engaged in the business of supplying electricity. See N.Y. Tax Law 208
  • qualified public utility: means a taxpayer which: (i) on December thirty-first, nineteen hundred ninety-nine, was subject to the ratemaking supervision of the state department of public service, and (ii) for the year ending on December thirty-first, nineteen hundred ninety-nine, was subject to tax under former section one hundred eighty-six of this chapter. See N.Y. Tax Law 208
  • Qualified reservation: means (a) lands held by an Indian nation or tribe that is located within the reservation of that nation or tribe in the state;

    (b) lands within the state over which an Indian nation or tribe exercises governmental power and that are either (i) held by the Indian nation or tribe subject to restrictions by the United States against alienation, or (ii) held in trust by the United States for the benefit of such Indian nation or tribe;

    (c) lands held by the Shinnecock Tribe or the Poospatuck (Unkechauge) Nation within their respective reservations; or

    (d) any land that falls within paragraph (a) or (b) of this subdivision, and which may be sold and replaced with other land in accordance with an Indian nation's or tribe's land claims settlement agreement with the state of New York, shall nevertheless be deemed to be subject to restriction by the United States against alienation. See N.Y. Tax Law 282
  • qualified taxpayer: means a qualified power producer or a qualified pipeline. See N.Y. Tax Law 208
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • real property: as used in this article includes the land itself above and under water, all buildings and other articles and structures, substructures and superstructures, erected upon, under or above, or affixed to the same; all wharves and piers, including the value of the right to collect wharfage, cranage or dockage thereon; all bridges, all telegraph lines, wires, poles and appurtenances; all supports and inclosures for electrical conductors and other appurtenances upon, above and underground; all surface, underground or elevated railroads, including the value of all franchises, rights or permission to construct, maintain or operate the same in, under, above, on or through, streets, highways, or public places; all railroad structures, substructures and superstructures, tracks and the iron thereon; branches, switches and other fixtures permitted or authorized to be made, laid or placed in, upon, above or under any public or private road, street or ground; all mains, pipes and tanks laid or placed in, upon, above or under any public or private street or place for conducting steam, heat, water, oil, electricity or any property, substance or product capable of transportation or conveyance therein or that is protected thereby, including the value of all franchises, rights, authority or permission to construct, maintain or operate, in, under, above, upon, or through, any streets, highways or public places, any mains, pipes, tanks, conduits or wires, with their appurtenances, for conducting water, steam, heat, light, power, gas, oil or other substance, or electricity or telegraphic, telephonic or other purposes; all trees and underwood growing upon land, and all mines, minerals, quarries and fossils in and under the same, except mines belonging to the state; and all the forms of housing which are adaptable to motivation by a power connected thereto or which may be propelled by a power within themselves and which are or can be used as a house or living abode or habitation of one or more persons, or for business, commercial or office purposes, either temporarily or permanently, and commonly called and hereafter referred to as "trailers"; except (1) transient trailers which have been located within the boundaries of a city, town or village for less than sixty days and (2) trailers which are for sale and which are not occupied. See N.Y. Tax Law 250
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. Source: FDIC
  • Registrant: shall mean : (1) any person, firm, corporation or association that: (i) is required to be registered with the education department as a wholesaler, manufacturer, or outsourcing facility pursuant to § 6808-b of the education law and (ii) holds and transfers title to an opioid unit; (2) any person, firm, corporation or association that: (i) would be required to be registered with the education department as a wholesaler, manufacturer, or outsourcing facility pursuant to such section six thousand eight hundred eight-b but for the exception in subdivision two of such section and (ii) holds and transfers title to an opioid unit; or (3) any person, firm, corporation or association that: (i) is required to be registered with the health department as a manufacturer or distributor of a controlled substance pursuant to § 3310 of the public health law and (ii) holds and transfers title to an opioid unit. See N.Y. Tax Law 497
  • Related member: means a related person as defined in subparagraph (c) of paragraph three of subsection (b) of section four hundred sixty-five of the internal revenue code, except that "fifty percent" shall be substituted for "ten percent". See N.Y. Tax Law 208
  • 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.
  • Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
  • Reservation motor fuel seller: means a seller of motor fuel or Diesel motor fuel which is an Indian nation or tribe, one or more members of such tribe, or an entity wholly owned by either or both, which sells motor fuel within the boundaries of a qualified reservation. See N.Y. Tax Law 282
  • residual petroleum product: means the topped crude of refinery operations which includes products commonly designated by the petroleum refining industry as "No. See N.Y. Tax Law 300
  • Retail dealer: means any person engaged in selling cigarettes at retail, and shall include a chain store, a wholesale dealer or an agent for purposes of its sales of cigarettes to consumers. See N.Y. Tax Law 483
  • retail sale not in bulk: means the making or offering to make any sale of Diesel motor fuel to a consumer of such fuel which is delivered directly into a motor vehicle for use in the operation of such vehicle. See N.Y. Tax Law 282
  • Rifle: means a weapon designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to be fired from the shoulder and designed or redesigned and made or remade to use the energy of the explosive to fire only a single projectile through a rifled bore for each single pull of the trigger using either: (a) fixed metallic cartridge; or (b) each projectile and explosive charge are loaded individually for each shot discharged. See N.Y. Penal Law 265.00
  • Right of rescission: Right to cancel, within three business days, a contract that uses the home of a person as collateral, except in the case of a first mortgage loan. There is no fee to the borrower, who receives a full refund of all fees paid. The right of rescission is guaranteed by the Truth in Lending Act (TILA). Source: OCC
  • Sale: shall include , in addition to its meaning under article twenty-eight of this chapter, the transfer of fuel by a distributor into a motor vehicle or into a receptacle from which fuel is supplied by him or it to his or its own or other motor vehicles. See N.Y. Tax Law 282
  • Sale: means any transfer, exchange or barter in any manner or by any means whatsoever. See N.Y. Tax Law 420
  • Sale: means any transfer of title or possession or both, exchange or barter, conditional or otherwise, in any manner or by any means whatever or any agreement therefor. See N.Y. Tax Law 470
  • Sale: shall mean any transfer of title to an opioid unit for a consideration where actual or constructive possession of such opioid unit is transferred by a registrant holding title to such opioid unit to a purchaser or its designee in this state. See N.Y. Tax Law 497
  • sale at retail: means a sale to a consumer or to any person for any purpose other than for resale. See N.Y. Tax Law 420
  • Semiautomatic: means any repeating rifle, shotgun or pistol, regardless of barrel or overall length, which utilizes a portion of the energy of a firing cartridge or shell to extract the fired cartridge case or spent shell and chamber the next round, and which requires a separate pull of the trigger to fire each cartridge or shell. See N.Y. Penal Law 265.00
  • Serious offense: means (a) any of the following offenses defined in the current penal law and any offense in any jurisdiction or the former penal law that includes all of the essential elements of any of the following offenses: illegally using, carrying or possessing a pistol or other dangerous weapon; possession of burglar's tools; criminal possession of stolen property in the third degree; escape in the third degree; jostling; fraudulent accosting; endangering the welfare of a child; obscenity in the third degree; issuing abortional articles; permitting prostitution; promoting prostitution in the third degree; stalking in the fourth degree; stalking in the third degree; sexual misconduct; forcible touching; sexual abuse in the third degree; sexual abuse in the second degree; criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree; criminally possessing a hypodermic instrument; criminally using drug paraphernalia in the second degree; criminal possession of methamphetamine manufacturing material in the second degree; and a hate crime defined in article four hundred eighty-five of this chapter. See N.Y. Penal Law 265.00
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • 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.
  • Shotgun: means a weapon designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to be fired from the shoulder and designed or redesigned and made or remade to use the energy of the explosive to fire through a smooth or rifled bore either a number of ball shot or a single projectile for each single pull of the trigger using either: (a) a fixed shotgun shell; or (b) a projectile or number of ball shot and explosive charge are loaded individually for each shot discharged. See N.Y. Penal Law 265.00
  • 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.
  • stock: means an interest in a corporation that is treated as equity for federal income tax purposes. See N.Y. Tax Law 208
  • Strength per unit: shall mean the amount of opioid in a unit, as measured by weight, volume, concentration or other metric. See N.Y. Tax Law 497
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • subsidiary: means a corporation of which over fifty percent of the number of shares of stock entitling the holders thereof to vote for the election of directors or trustees is owned by the taxpayer. See N.Y. Tax Law 208
  • tangible personal property: means corporeal personal property, such as machinery, tools, implements, goods, wares and merchandise, and does not mean money, deposits in banks, shares of stock, bonds, notes, credits or evidences of an interest in property and evidences of debt. See N.Y. Tax Law 208
  • tangible personal property: means corporeal personal property, such as machinery, tools, implements, goods, wares and merchandise, and does not mean money, deposits in banks, shares of stock, bonds, notes, credits or evidences of an interest in property and evidences of debt. See N.Y. Tax Law 291
  • tax: as used in this article shall include the tax imposed by this section as well as the tax imposed by subdivision one of section two hundred seventy and a reference to such tax, subdivision one of section two hundred seventy or section two hundred seventy shall include the tax imposed by this section, subdivision one of this section and this section, respectively. See N.Y. Tax Law 270-D
  • tax district: as used in this article means a city or town. See N.Y. Tax Law 250
  • taxable month: means a calendar month or any part thereof during which a petroleum business is subject to tax under this article. See N.Y. Tax Law 300
  • Taxicab licensee: shall mean every corporation, company, association, partnership and person engaged in operating a taxicab, as defined in § 148-a of the vehicle and traffic law, and licensed by local authorities as defined in section one hundred twenty-two of such law to operate at a fixed rate of fare. See N.Y. Tax Law 282
  • taxpayer: means any corporation subject to tax under this article. See N.Y. Tax Law 208
  • taxpayer: means an organization or trust described in section two hundred ninety. See N.Y. Tax Law 291
  • Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
  • Terminal: means a motor fuel or Diesel motor fuel storage facility with a storage capacity of fifty thousand gallons or more excluding such facility at which motor fuel or Diesel motor fuel is stored solely for its retail sale at such facility. See N.Y. Tax Law 282
  • Terminal operator: means any person who or which has the use of or control over, or the right to so use or control, a terminal. See N.Y. Tax Law 282
  • termination year: means any taxable year of a corporation during which the New York S election terminates on a day other than the first day of such year. See N.Y. Tax Law 208
  • Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • thrift institution: is a savings bank, a savings and loan association, or other savings institution chartered and supervised as such under federal or state law. See N.Y. Tax Law 208
  • 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.
  • transition property: means property placed in service by the taxpayer before January first, two thousand, for which a depreciation deduction is allowed under section one hundred sixty-seven of the internal revenue code. See N.Y. Tax Law 208
  • Transporter: means any person who or which has the use or control, or the right to the use or control of any means of transportation used in transporting motor fuel including a barge, truck or pipeline. See N.Y. Tax Law 282
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Unfinished frame or receiver: means any unserialized material that does not constitute the frame or receiver of a firearm, rifle or shotgun but that has been shaped or formed in any way for the purpose of becoming the frame or receiver of a firearm, rifle or shotgun, and which may readily be made into a functional frame or receiver through milling, drilling or other means. See N.Y. Penal Law 265.00
  • 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
  • unincorporated business: means any trade, business or occupation conducted, engaged in or being liquidated by an individual or unincorporated entity, including a partnership, joint venture, sole proprietorship, unincorporated association, fiduciary, or a corporation in liquidation. See N.Y. Tax Law 300
  • Unit: shall mean a single finished dosage form of an opioid, such as a pill, tablet, capsule, suppository, transdermal patch, buccal film, milliliter of liquid, milligram of topical preparation, or any other form. See N.Y. Tax Law 497
  • Unloaded weight: shall mean the actual weight of the motor vehicle, which includes all equipment necessary for the performance of the function of the vehicle as a vehicle, necessary for the safety of the vehicle, permanently attached to the vehicle, used exclusively for the protection of the load carried by the vehicle or used exclusively for the loading or unloading of the vehicle. See N.Y. Tax Law 501
  • Use: means any compounding or mixing of alcoholic beverages with other ingredients or other treatment of the same in such manner as to render them unfit or unsuitable for consumption as a beverage and also the actual consumption or possession for consumption of alcoholic beverages as a beverage or otherwise. See N.Y. Tax Law 420
  • Vehicular unit: shall mean a motor vehicle alone or in combination with any other motor vehicle, trailer, semi-trailer, dolly, or other device drawn thereby. See N.Y. Tax Law 501
  • Wholesale acquisition cost: shall mean the manufacturer's list price for an opioid unit to wholesalers or direct purchasers in the United States, not including prompt pay or other discounts, rebates or reductions in price, for the most recent month for which the information is available, as reported in wholesale price guides or other publications of drug or biological pricing data. See N.Y. Tax Law 497
  • Wholesale dealer: shall mean any person, other than an agent, who sells cigarettes to retail dealers or other persons for purposes of resale only and who maintains a separate warehousing facility for the purpose of receiving and distributing cigarettes and conducting its wholesale business. See N.Y. Tax Law 483
  • Wholesaler of motor fuel: means any person, firm, association or corporation who or which: (1) is not a distributor of motor fuel; (2) makes a sale of motor fuel in this state other than a retail sale not in bulk; and (3)(A) makes any purchases of motor fuel for resale within the region set forth in subparagraph (i) or (ii) of paragraph one of subdivision (e) of section eleven hundred eleven of this chapter; or (B) makes any sales of motor fuel, other than retail sales not in bulk, within the region set forth in subparagraph (i) or (ii) of paragraph one of subdivision (e) of section eleven hundred eleven of this chapter. See N.Y. Tax Law 282