Terms Used In New York Laws > Environmental Conservation > Article 27 - Collection, Treatment and Disposal of Refuse and Other Solid Waste

• Abatement: means the removal of a sufficient number of waste tires from a noncompliant waste tire stockpile and restoration of the site to a condition that is in substantial compliance with the rules and regulations administered by the department for waste tire storage facilities. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1901
• Adaptive measures: means any adjustment, whether passive, reactive or anticipatory, that may be taken to ameliorate the anticipated adverse consequences associated with flood events. See N.Y. Canal Law 139-A
• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• administrative head or body: means the chief official or board of a county hurricane protection, flood and shoreline erosion control district. See N.Y. County Law 280-A
• 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.
• Advisory committee: shall mean the Central Pine Barrens advisory committee to the commission established pursuant to subdivision nine of section 57-0119 of this title. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 57-0107
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• agency: means a county hurricane protection, flood and shoreline erosion control agency. See N.Y. County Law 280-A
• ALI: means the delivery or receipt of the approximate geographic location, as specified in the FCC order, of the wireless device being used to place a 911 call. See N.Y. County Law 325
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
• ANI: means the delivery or receipt of the telephone number assigned to the wireless device being used to place a 911 call. See N.Y. County Law 325
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• 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.
• architectural paint: means interior and exterior architectural coatings sold in containers of five gallons or less; provided, however, that "architectural paint" shall not include industrial, original equipment or specialty coatings. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2001
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Attorney-at-law: A person who is legally qualified and licensed to practice law, and to represent and act for clients in legal proceedings.
• Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
• Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
• Bailiff: a court officer who enforces the rules of behavior in courtrooms.
• 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.
• battery manufacturer: means every person, firm or corporation that: (i) produces rechargeable batteries sold or distributed in the state, or packages such batteries for sale in the state, except that if such production or packaging is for a distributor having the right to produce or otherwise package that same brand of battery in the state, then such distributor shall be deemed to be the battery manufacturer; or (ii) imports rechargeable batteries into the United States that are sold or distributed in the state;

  2. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1803

• Beneficial use: means the use of solid waste material, which would otherwise need to be placed in a landfill or disposed of through alternative means, in such a manner that the nature of the use of the material constitutes a reuse rather than disposal. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1901
• Benefit corporation: means a business corporation incorporated under this article and whose status as a benefit corporation has not been terminated as provided in this article. See N.Y. Business Corporation Law 1702
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Beverage: means carbonated soft drinks, water, beer, other malt beverages and a wine product as defined in subdivision thirty-six-a of section three of the alcoholic beverage control law. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1003
• Beverage container: means the individual, separate, sealed glass, metal, aluminum, steel or plastic bottle, can or jar used for containing less than one gallon or 3. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1003
• Board: means a facility siting board constituted pursuant to the provisions of section 27-1105 of this title. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1101
• Board: means the board of supervisors of a county or an elected county legislative body or city legislative body by whatsoever name designated. See N.Y. County Law 301
• Board: shall mean the New York state 911 board. See N.Y. County Law 325
• Bottler: means a person, firm or corporation who:

  a. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1003

• Canal system: shall mean the canal waterways, lands and infrastructure as set out in section two of this chapter. See N.Y. Canal Law 139-A
• capital costs: means the costs of a local government, a voluntary agency, or the facilities development corporation with respect to the acquisition of real property estates, interests, and cooperative interests in realty, their design, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation and improvement, original furnishings and equipment, site development, and appurtenances of a local facility. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 41.03
• Case law: The law as laid down in cases that have been decided in the decisions of the courts.
• Cathode ray tube: means a vacuum tube or picture tube used to convert an electronic signal into a visual image. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2601
• Central Pine Barrens area: shall mean the contiguous area as described and bounded as follows:

  Beginning at a point where the southerly side of Route 25A intersects the easterly side of Miller Place Road; thence southward along the easterly boundary of Miller Place Road to Helme Avenue; thence southward along the easterly boundary of Helme Avenue to Miller Place-Middle Island Road; thence southward along the easterly boundary of Miller Place-Middle Island Road to Whiskey Road; thence westward along the southerly boundary of Whiskey Road to Mount Sinai-Coram Road; thence southward along the easterly boundary of Mount Sinai-Coram Road to Middle Country Road (Route 25); thence westward along the southerly boundary of Route 25 to Patchogue-Mount Sinai Road (County Route 83); thence southward along the easterly boundary of County Route 83 to Bicycle Path Drive; thence southeastward along the easterly side of Bicycle Path Drive to Mt. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 57-0107

• Chambers: A judge's office.
• Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
• Claimant: when used in this article, means a purchaser or holder of a New York instrument. See N.Y. Banking Law 653
• Collector: means any person who accepts mercury-added consumer products in order to transfer them to a solid waste management facility, a hazardous waste management facility or another collector. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• Commission: shall mean the Central Pine Barrens Joint Planning and Policy Commission established pursuant to section 57-0119 of this title. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 57-0107
• Commissioner: means the head of the office of mental health. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 7.03
• commissioner: means the head of the office for people with developmental disabilities. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 13.03
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 19.03
• Commissioner: shall mean the commissioner of environmental conservation except that within and for the purposes of title eleven of this article, the commissioner of parks and recreation. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 51-0101
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of environmental conservation except that within and for the purposes of title nine of this article, the term shall mean the commissioner of parks, recreation and historic preservation. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 52-0101
• Commissioner: shall mean the commissioner of consumer and worker protection. See N.Y. New York City Administrative Code 20-102
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of mental health or the commissioner of developmental disabilities. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 10.03
• 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.
• Compatible growth area: shall mean the compatible growth area which comprises that area within the central pine barrens, but outside the core preservation area as defined. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 57-0107
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Computer: means an electronic, magnetic, optical, electrochemical or other high-speed data processing device performing a logical, arithmetic or storage function, including a laptop computer and desktop computer, and includes any cable, cord, or wiring permanently affixed to or incorporated into such product, and may include both a computer central processing unit and a monitor; but such term shall not include an automated typewriter or typesetter, a portable hand-held calculator, a portable digital assistant, server, or other similar device. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2601
• consumer: means any person who purchases one or more rechargeable batteries, or products containing such batteries at the time of sale, for personal use;

  3. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1803

• Consumer: means any person who purchases a mercury-added consumer product for use other than resale. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• Consumer: means a person located in the state who owns or uses covered electronic equipment, including but not limited to an individual, a business, corporation, limited partnership, not-for-profit corporation, the state, a public corporation, public school, school district, private or parochial school or board of cooperative educational services or governmental entity, but does not include an entity involved in a wholesale transaction between a distributor and retailer. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2601
• Container: shall mean any portable device in which a material is stored, transported, treated, disposed of or otherwise handled. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2301
• Contaminant: means emerging contaminants pursuant to § 1112 of the public health law, and, for solid waste sites, shall include parameters identified in regulations required to be tested by landfills to ensure the protection of groundwater quality. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1201
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Core preservation area: shall mean the core preservation area of the Central Pine Barrens area which comprise the largest intact areas of undeveloped pine barrens as described and bounded as follows:

  Beginning at a point where the northwestern corner of the New York State Rocky Point Natural Resource Management Area (the "NYS Rocky Point Land") intersects the southerly side of NYS Route 25A; thence generally southward and eastward along the generally westerly and southerly boundaries of the NYS Rocky Point Land (including the Currans Road Pond State Wildlife Management Area, all adjacent or contiguous undeveloped Town of Brookhaven parks, preserves, open space areas, or reserved areas, and the crossings of the undeveloped Suffolk County property known as the Port Jefferson - Westhampton road right of way, Whiskey Road, County Route 21, and Currans Road), and including those properties identified as District 200, Section 346, Block 1, Lots 3 and 4, to the point where the NYS Rocky Point Land meets the northerly side of NYS Route 25 (Middle Country Road); thence eastward along the northerly boundary of NYS Route 25 to the southeastern corner of that property west of Woodlots Road which is identified as District 200, Section 349, Block 2, Lot 1. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 57-0107

• Corporation: means and includes all mutual savings banks, mutual savings and loan associations, mutual holding companies and credit unions. See N.Y. Banking Law 9001
• Corporation: means the New York state environmental facilities corporation. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1101
• Correctional facility: means a correctional facility as that term is defined in § 2 of the correction law. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 10.03
• Cost: means the cost of an approved project, which shall include engineering and architectural services, plans and specifications, consultant and legal services, and other direct expenses incident to such project less any federal assistance received or to be received and any other assistance from responsible parties or otherwise. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 52-0101
• Cost: means the cost of an approved project, which shall include engineering and architectural services, plans and specifications, consultant and legal services, and other direct expenses incident to such project less any federal assistance received or to be received and any other assistance from other parties. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 54-0101
• Cost: means the cost of an approved project, which shall include appraisal, surveying, engineering and architectural services, plans and specifications, consultant and legal services, construction and other direct expenses incident to such project less any federal or state funds, other than those provided pursuant to this article, for such project received or to be received. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 56-0101
• Cost: means the capital cost of a municipal landfill closure project or a municipal landfill gas management project, including engineering and architectural services, plans and specifications, consultant and legal services, and other direct capital expenses incident to such project, less any federal or other assistance for such project received or to be received. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 54-0501
• Cost: means the capital cost of a municipal recycling project including engineering and architectural services, surveys, plans and specifications; consultant and legal services; lands acquired pursuant to the conditions set forth in section 54-0709 of this title, and other direct capital expenses incident to such a project, less any federal assistance or other assistance received or to be received. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 54-0701
• Council: shall mean the Long Island Pine Barrens maritime reserve council created by section 57-0111 of this title. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 57-0107
• Counsel for respondent: means any counsel that has been retained or appointed for respondent, or if no other counsel has been retained or appointed, or prior counsel cannot be located with reasonable efforts, then the mental hygiene legal service. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 10.03
• Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
• Covered electronic equipment: means : a computer; computer peripheral; small electronic equipment; small-scale server; cathode ray tube; or television, as defined in this section. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2601
• creosote: means a substance obtained from the high temperature treatment of coal and coal tar and that is used primarily as a wood preservative. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2501
• Dangerous sex offender requiring confinement: means a person who is a detained sex offender suffering from a mental abnormality involving such a strong predisposition to commit sex offenses, and such an inability to control behavior, that the person is likely to be a danger to others and to commit sex offenses if not confined to a secure treatment facility. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 10.03
• Dealer: means every person, firm or corporation who engages in the sale of beverages in beverage containers to a consumer for off premises consumption in this state. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1003
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Department: means the department of environmental conservation. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1003
• department: means the department of environmental conservation. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2001
• Department: means the department of environmental conservation. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 52-0101
• Department: shall mean the department of consumer and worker protection. See N.Y. New York City Administrative Code 20-102
• Department: means the department of environmental conservation. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 54-0101
• 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.
• Design professional: means an individual licensed and registered pursuant to title eight of the education law to practice professional engineering, architecture, landscape architecture, geology or land surveying. See N.Y. Business Corporation Law 1501
• Design professional service corporation: means a corporation organized under this article practicing professional engineering, architecture, landscape architecture, geology, or land surveying, or practicing any combination of such professions. See N.Y. Business Corporation Law 1501
• Designated felony: means any felony offense defined by any of the following provisions of the penal law: assault in the second degree as defined in section 120. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 10.03
• Detained sex offender: means a person who is in the care, custody, control, or supervision of an agency with jurisdiction, with respect to a sex offense or designated felony, in that the person is either:

  (1) A person who stands convicted of a sex offense as defined in subdivision (p) of this section, and is currently serving a sentence

  for, or subject to supervision by the division of parole, whether on parole or on post-release supervision, for such offense or for a related offense;

  (2) A person charged with a sex offense who has been determined to be an incapacitated person with respect to that offense and has been committed pursuant to Article 730 of the criminal procedure law, but did engage in the conduct constituting such offense;

  (3) A person charged with a sex offense who has been found not responsible by reason of mental disease or defect for the commission of that offense;

  (4) A person who stands convicted of a designated felony that was sexually motivated and committed prior to the effective date of this article;

  (5) A person convicted of a sex offense who is, or was at any time after September first, two thousand five, a patient in a hospital operated by the office of mental health, and who was admitted directly to such facility pursuant to article nine of this title or § 402 of the correction law upon release or conditional release from a correctional facility, provided that the provisions of this article shall not be deemed to shorten or lengthen the time for which such person may be held pursuant to such article or section respectively; or

  (6) A person who has been determined to be a sex offender requiring civil management pursuant to this article. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 10.03

• Development: shall mean the performance of any building activity or mining operation, the making of any material change in the use or intensity of use of any structure or land and the creation or termination of rights of access or riparian rights. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 57-0107
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Direct dispatch: shall mean that the public safety answering point can, by encoding or toning, alert the responding agency without having to relay or reroute calls unless the call originates outside the jurisdiction. See N.Y. County Law 325
• director: means the director of community services, who is the chief executive officer of a local governmental unit, by whatever title known. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 41.03
• director: as used in this article includes any of the persons having, by law, the direction or management of the affairs of a corporation, by whatever name described. See N.Y. Banking Law 674
• Director: means any member of the governing board of a corporation, whether designated as director, trustee, manager, governor or by any other title; the term "board" means "board of directors. See N.Y. Banking Law 9001
• director of community services: means the director of community services for the mentally disabled appointed pursuant to article eleven of this chapter. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 15.01
• director of community services: means the director of community services for the mentally disabled appointed pursuant to article forty-one of this chapter. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 9.01
• Discharge: shall mean the accidental or intentional spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying or dumping of any solid waste, or solid waste constituent, including leachate, into or on any air, land or water. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2301
• 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:
• Disposal: means the abandonment, discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking or placing of any substance so that such substance or any related constituent thereof may enter the environment. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0901
• Disposal: means the abandonment, discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking or placing of any substance so that such substance or any related constituent thereof may enter the environment. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1101
• Disposal: means the abandonment, discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking or placing of any substance so that such substance or any related constituent thereof may enter the environment. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1301
• disposal: means the abandonment, discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking or placing of any substance so that such substance or any related constituent thereof may enter the environment. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• Disposal: means the abandonment, discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking or placing of any substance so that such substance or any related constituent thereof may enter the environment. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0303
• Distributor: means any person, firm or corporation which engages in the sale or offer for sale of beverages in beverage containers to a dealer. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1003
• Distributor: means any person who sells mercury-added consumer products to a retailer in this state, including any manufacturer who sells to retailers in the state. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• district: means a county hurricane proection, flood and shoreline erosion control district except where otherwise stated. See N.Y. County Law 280-A
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Donee: The recipient of a gift.
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Drinking water contamination site: means any area or site that is causing or substantially contributing to the contamination of one or more public drinking water supplies. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1201
• drug: means any drug, as defined in subdivision seven of section sixty-eight hundred two of the education law. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2701*2
• Electronic appearance: means an appearance in which various participants, including the defendant, are not present in the court, but in which, by means of an independent audio-visual system, (a) all of the participants are simultaneously able to see and hear reproductions of the voices and images of the judge, counsel, defendant, police officer, and any other appropriate participant, and (b) counsel is present with the defendant, or if the defendant waives the presence of counsel on the record, the defendant and his or her counsel are able to see and hear each other and engage in private conversation. See N.Y. Criminal Procedure Law 182.10
• Electronic arraignment: means an arraignment in which various participants, including the defendant, are not personally present in the court but in which all of the participants are simultaneously able to see and hear reproductions of the voices and images of the judge, counsels, defendant, police officer and any other appropriate participant, by means of an independent audio-visual system. See N.Y. Criminal Procedure Law 185.10
• Electronic waste: means covered electronic equipment that has been discarded or is no longer wanted by its owner, or for any other reason enters the waste collection, recovery, treatment, processing, or recycling system. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2601
• Electronic waste collection site: means a facility at a fixed or temporary site at which electronic waste is accepted from consumers and temporarily stored for more than five days in a calendar year before

  such waste is transported to an electronic waste consolidation facility or electronic waste recycling facility. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2601

• Electronic waste consolidation facility: means a facility that receives and stores electronic waste for the purpose of organizing, categorizing or consolidating items of electronic waste before such waste is transported to an electronic waste recycling facility. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2601
• Electronic waste recycling facility: means a facility at which electronic waste is recycled. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2601
• End of life vehicle: shall mean any motor vehicle sold, given, or otherwise disposed of as junk or salvage. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2301
• End use: means that a product requires no further processing or manufacturing and is used by a consumer for the product's intended application. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1901
• End user: means the ultimate customer of a finished product. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1901
• 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.
• Environment: means any water, water vapor, any land including land surface or subsurface, air, fish, wildlife, biota and all other natural resources. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0303
• Environment: means any water, water vapor, any land including land surface or subsurface, air, fish, wildlife, biota and all other natural resources. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0901
• Environment: means any water, water vapor, any land including land surface or subsurface, air, fish, wildlife, biota and all other natural resources. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1101
• Environment: means any water, water vapor, any land including land surface or subsurface, air, fish, wildlife, biota and all other natural resources. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1301
• Environmental restoration project: means a project to investigate or to remediate contamination pursuant to title five of this article. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 56-0101
• environmentally sound management practices: means procedures for the collection, storage, transportation, reuse, recycling and disposal of architectural paint, to be implemented by the producer or representative organization or by the producers or representative organization's contracted partners to ensure compliance with all applicable federal, state and local laws and any regulations and ordinances for the protection of human health and the environment and these procedures shall address adequate record keeping, tracking and documenting of the final disposition of materials. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2001
• 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}
• Equity security: means any stock, bond, or other obligation of a target company, the holder of which has the right to vote for the election of members of the board of directors, or those exercising a similar function if the target company is not a corporation, of such target company. See N.Y. Business Corporation Law 1601
• Escheat: Reversion of real or personal property to the state when 1) a person dies without leaving a will and has no heirs, or 2) when the property (such as a bank account) has been inactive for a certain period of time. ^{Source: OCC}
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Expedited deployment funding: means eligible wireless 911 costs estimated to be incurred by local public safety answering points for enhanced wireless 911 service. See N.Y. County Law 325
• Facility: means any structure or site improvement including paths, trails, roads, bridges, ramps and buildings. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 54-0101
• 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.
• FCC order: means all orders issued by the Federal Communications Commission pursuant to the proceeding entitled "Revision of the Commission's Rule to Ensure Compatibility with Enhanced 911 Emergency Calling Systems" (CC Docket No. See N.Y. County Law 325
• Federal assistance: shall mean funds available, other than by loan, from the federal government, either directly or through allocation by the state for construction or program purposes pursuant to any federal law or program. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 52-0101
• Federal assistance: means funds available, other than by loan, from the federal government, either directly or through allocation by the state for construction or program purposes pursuant to any federal law or program. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 54-0101
• Federal assistance: means funds available, other than by loan, from the federal government, either directly or through allocation by the state for construction or program purposes pursuant to any federal law or program. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 56-0101
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: A government corporation that insures the deposits of all national and state banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System. ^{Source: OCC}
• Federal insuring agency: when used in this article, means the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or the National Credit Union Administration. See N.Y. Banking Law 653
• 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.
• Felony: A crime carrying a penalty of more than a year in prison.
• Film plastic: means uncontaminated non-rigid film plastic packaging products composed of plastic resins, which include, but are not limited to, newspaper bags, dry cleaning bags and shrink-wrap. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2701
• food store: means a store selling primarily food and food products for consumption or use off the premises that occupies less than fourteen thousand square feet of display space. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1803
• Forbearance: A means of handling a delinquent loan. A
• 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}
• Foreign corporation: means a non-stock corporation which is licensed by the superintendent under the provisions of article two of this chapter to do business in this state or is applying for such license and a non-stock corporation authorized to conduct business in this state pursuant to article five-C of this chapter or is applying for such authorization. See N.Y. Banking Law 9001
• Foreign professional service corporation: means a professional service corporation, whether or not denominated as such, organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than this state, all of the shareholders, directors and officers of which are authorized and licensed to practice the profession for which such corporation is licensed to do business; except that all shareholders, directors and officers of a foreign professional service corporation which provides health services in this state shall be licensed in this state. See N.Y. Business Corporation Law 1525
• Fund: when used in this article, means the state transmitter of money insurance fund as provided for in this article. See N.Y. Banking Law 653
• Fund: shall mean the statewide public safety communications account established pursuant to § 97 of the state finance law. See N.Y. County Law 325
• General public benefit: means a material positive impact on society and the environment, taken as a whole, assessed against a third-party standard, from the business and operations of a benefit corporation. See N.Y. Business Corporation Law 1702
• Germane: On the subject of the pending bill or other business; a strict standard of relevance.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Good condition: shall mean no severe rusting, apparent structural defects or deteriorations and not leaking. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2301
• Governing body: shall mean

  a. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 51-0101

• Governing body: means

  (a) in the case of a town, a town board;

  (b) in the case of a county outside of the city of New York, the county board of supervisors or other elective governing body;

  (c) in the case of a city or village, the local legislative body thereof, as the term is defined in the municipal home rule law;

  (d) in the case of a public benefit corporation, the board of directors, members or trustees thereof;

  (e) in the case of a school district, the board of education thereof;

  (f) in the case of a supervisory district, the board of cooperative educational services thereof. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 52-0101

• Governing body: means :

  a. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 54-0101

• Governing body: means :

  (a) in the case of a county outside of the city of New York, the county board of supervisors or other elective governing body;

  (b) in the case of a city or village, the local legislative body thereof, as the term is defined in the municipal home rule law;

  (c) in the case of a town, the town board;

  (d) in the case of a school district, the board of education thereof;

  (e) in the case of a supervisory district, the board of cooperative educational services thereof;

  (f) in the case of a public benefit corporation, the board of directors, members or trustees thereof;

  (g) in the case of a public authority, the governing board of directors, members, or trustees thereof;

  (h) in the case of a not-for-profit corporation, the board of directors thereof or such other body designated in the certificate of incorporation to manage the corporation; and

  (i) in the case of an Indian tribe, any governing body recognized by the United States or the state of New York. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 56-0101

• governing body: means the elected legislative body of the county. See N.Y. County Law 280-A
• Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• Groundwater: shall mean water below the land surface in a saturated zone of soil or rock. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2301
• 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.
• Habeas corpus: A writ that is usually used to bring a prisoner before the court to determine the legality of his imprisonment. It may also be used to bring a person in custody before the court to give testimony, or to be prosecuted.
• Hazardous waste: means a waste or combination of wastes, which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical or infectious characteristics may:

  a. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0901

• Hazardous waste: means a waste which appears on the list or satisfies the characteristics promulgated by the commissioner pursuant to section 27-0903 of this article and any substance which appears on the list promulgated pursuant to section 37-0103 of this chapter; provided, however, that the term "hazardous waste" does not include:

  a. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1301

• Hazardous waste management: means the systematic control of the collection, source separation, storage, transportation, processing, treatment, recovery, and disposal of hazardous wastes. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0901
• Hearsay: Statements by a witness who did not see or hear the incident in question but heard about it from someone else. Hearsay is usually not admissible as evidence in court.
• Heritage area project: means a project undertaken by or through a municipality, public benefit corporation or a not-for-profit corporation identified in a management plan prepared and approved by the commissioner of the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation in accordance with the provisions of section 35. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 56-0101
• Historic preservation project: means :

  (a) State historic preservation projects. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 52-0101

• Historic preservation project: means a project undertaken by a municipality or a not-for-profit corporation to acquire, improve, restore or rehabilitate property listed on the state or national registers of historic places, including, but not limited to, projects at zoos, botanical gardens, and aquaria, to protect the historic, cultural, archeological, or architectural significance thereof, or undertaken by the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation to improve, restore or rehabilitate state historic properties listed on the state or national registers of historic places to protect the historical, cultural or architectural significance thereof. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 56-0101
• Historic preservation project: means a project undertaken by a municipality or a not-for-profit corporation to acquire, improve, restore or rehabilitate property listed on the state or national registers of historic places to protect the historic, cultural or architectural significance thereof or a project for planning or structural assessments for such properties. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 54-0901
• Holder: when used in this article, means a person, other than a purchaser, who is either (i) in possession of a New York instrument and is the named payee thereon, or (ii) in possession of a New York instrument issued or endorsed to him or bearer or in blank; provided, however, that no person who is in possession of a lost, stolen or forged New York instrument or who is in possession of a New York instrument by virtue of the fact that he is the surety on a bond required by subdivision one of section six hundred forty-three of this chapter or is a receiver or trustee, whether in bankruptcy or otherwise, for an uninsured transmitter of money shall be deemed a "holder" thereof. See N.Y. Banking Law 653
• horticulture: shall mean any production of plants or animals useful to man, including but not limited to: forage or sod crops; grains and feed crops; dairy animals and dairy products; poultry and poultry products; livestock, including beef cattle, sheep, swine, horses, ponies, mules or goats, and including the breeding and grazing of any or all of such animals; bees and apiary products; fur animals; trees and forest products; fruits of all kinds including wineries; vegetables; nursery, floral, ornamental and greenhouse products and farmstands for selling products raised or produced on site and other associated structures required for their production. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 57-0107
• Hospitality personal care product: means a product provided by a hotel and intended to be applied to or used on the human body or any part thereof for cleansing, conditioning, or moisturizing. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-3201
• Hotel: means a building or portion of a building which is regularly used and kept open as such for the lodging of guests. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-3201
• Household: means a single or multiple family residence. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• Household hazardous waste: shall mean solid waste emanating from households (including single and multiple residences, hotels and motels, bunkhouses, ranger stations, crew quarters, campgrounds, picnic grounds and day-use recreation areas) which but for their point of generation, would be a hazardous waste under title 9 of article 27 of this chapter or a "pesticide" as defined in article 33 of this chapter. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 54-0701
• in need of care and treatment: means that a person has a mental illness for which in-patient care and treatment in a hospital is appropriate. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 9.01
• in need of involuntary care and treatment: means that a person has a mental illness for which care and treatment as a patient in a hospital is essential to such person's welfare and whose judgment is so impaired that he is unable to understand the need for such care and treatment. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 9.01
• Inactive hazardous waste disposal site: means any area or structure used for the long term storage or final placement of hazardous waste including, but not limited to, dumps, landfills, lagoons and artificial treatment ponds, as to which area or structure no permit or authorization issued by the department or a federal agency for the disposal of hazardous waste was in effect after the effective date of this title and any inactive area or structure on the National Priorities List established under the authority of 42 U. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1301
• Inactive hazardous waste disposal site remedial program: means activities undertaken to eliminate, remove, abate, control or monitor health and/or environmental hazards or potential hazards in connection with inactive hazardous waste disposal sites or to treat or dispose of wastes and waste contaminated materials from such sites including, but not limited to, grading, contouring, trenching, grouting, capping, excavation, transporting, incineration, chemical treatment, biological treatment or construction of leachate collection and treatment facilities. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1301
• Incapacitated: means that a person, as a result of the use of alcohol and/or substances, is unconscious or has his or her judgment otherwise so impaired that he or she is incapable of realizing and making a rational decision with respect to his or her need for treatment. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 22.09
• Independent: means that a person has no material relationship with a benefit corporation or any of its subsidiaries. See N.Y. Business Corporation Law 1702
• Independent audio-visual system: means an electronic system for the transmission and receiving of audio and visual signals, encompassing encoded signals, frequency domain multiplexing or other suitable means to preclude the unauthorized reception and decoding of the signals by commercially available television receivers, channel converters, or other available receiving devices. See N.Y. Criminal Procedure Law 182.10
• Independent audio-visual system: shall mean an electronic system for the transmission and receiving of audio and visual signals, encompassing encoded signals, frequency domain multiplexing or other suitable means to preclude the unauthorized reception and decoding of the signals by commercially available television receivers, channel converters, or other available receiving devices. See N.Y. Criminal Procedure Law 185.10
• 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: means a natural person. See N.Y. Banking Law 599-B
• Industrial hazardous waste: shall mean an industrial waste or combination of wastes, which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical or infectious characteristics may:

  a. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1101

• 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.
• Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
• Joint tenancy: A form of property ownership in which two or more parties hold an undivided interest in the same property that was conveyed under the same instrument at the same time. A joint tenant can sell his (her) interest but not dispose of it by will. Upon the death of a joint tenant, his (her) undivided interest is distributed among the surviving joint tenants.
• Judgement: The official decision of a court finally determining the respective rights and claims of the parties to a suit.
• Jurisdictional protocol: shall mean a written agreement entered into by two or more law enforcement agencies setting forth procedures to ensure the organized, coordinated, and prompt mobilization of personnel, equipment, services, or facilities in order to achieve the fastest response to a 911 emergency. See N.Y. County Law 325
• Juror: A person who is on the jury.
• Label: means a marker on the surface of covered electronic equipment conveying information; for the purposes of this title, labels must be permanent and can be attached, printed, engraved or incorporated in any other permanent way that is obvious and visible to users of the product. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2601
• Land use plan: shall mean the comprehensive Central Pine Barrens land use plan pursuant to section 57-0121 of this title, including the generic environmental impact statement thereon. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 57-0107
• Landfill: means a disposal facility or part of a facility where solid waste, including hazardous waste, is placed in or on land, and which is not a land treatment facility, a surface impoundment, or an injection well. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0901
• Landfill: means a disposal facility or part of one at which solid waste, or its residue after treatment, is intentionally placed in or on land, at which solid waste will remain after closure, and which is not a landspreading facility, a surface impoundment, or an injection well. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 52-0101
• Landfill: means a disposal facility or part of one at which solid waste, or its residue after treatment, is intentionally placed in or on land, and at which solid waste will remain after closure and which is not a land spreading facility, a surface impoundment, or an injection well. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 54-0501
• Landfill: means a disposal facility or part of one at which solid waste, or its residue after treatment, is intentionally placed in or on land, and at which solid waste will remain after closure and which is not a land spreading facility, a surface impoundment, or an injection well. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 56-0403
• Landfill gas management system: means an active system for the control, capture, and management of gas created within and emitted from a solid waste landfill. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 54-0501
• Landfill gas management system: means a system for the control, capture, and management of gas created within and emitted from a solid waste landfill. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 56-0403
• Lands: shall mean lands, improvements and structures thereon or rights, franchises, and interests therein, lands under water and riparian rights, and shall also mean any and all interests in lands less than full title, including without limitations, easements, permanent or temporary, rights of way, uses, leases, licenses, and any other estate, interests or right in lands, legal or equitable. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 51-0101
• 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}
• Legal tender: coins, dollar bills, or other currency issued by a government as official money. ^{Source: U.S. Mint}
• Lending Institution: means the original lender under the loan agreement or participants therein and its successors and assigns, and may include a banking institution, insurance company, foundation, labor union, employers association, trustees, fiduciaries or any combination of the foregoing. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 75.05
• License: when used in this article means any license duly issued by the superintendent pursuant to the provisions of article nine, nine-A, eleven-B, twelve-B, twelve-C, twelve-D or thirteen-B of this chapter or any registration certificate issued by the superintendent pursuant to the provisions of article twelve-D of this chapter. See N.Y. Banking Law 635
• License: shall mean an authorization by the department of consumer and worker protection to carry on various activities within its jurisdiction, which may take the form of a license, permit, registration, certification or such other form as is designated under law, regulation or rule. See N.Y. New York City Administrative Code 20-102
• Licensed psychologist: means a person who is registered as a psychologist under Article one hundred fifty-three of the education law. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 10.03
• Licensee: when used in this article means any person issued a license. See N.Y. Banking Law 635
• licensing authority: means the regents of the university of the state of New York or the state education department, as the case may be, in the case of all professions licensed under title eight of the education law, and the appropriate appellate division of the supreme court in the case of the profession of law. See N.Y. Business Corporation Law 1501
• Licensing authority: means the regents of the university of the state of New York or the state education department, as the case may be, in the case of all professions licensed under title eight of the education law, and the appropriate appellate division of the supreme court in the case of the profession of law. See N.Y. Business Corporation Law 1525
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• likely to result in serious harm: means (a) a substantial risk of physical harm to the person as manifested by threats of or attempts at suicide or serious bodily harm or other conduct demonstrating that the person is dangerous to himself or herself, or (b) a substantial risk of physical harm to other persons as manifested by homicidal or other violent behavior by which others are placed in reasonable fear of serious physical harm. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 9.01
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• local facility: means a facility offering local services and includes a community mental health and developmental disabilities facility as defined in section three of the facilities development corporation act and, for the purposes of this article, a mental hygiene facility, as defined in said section, to be made available for use in providing local services under lease, sublease, license or permit from the facilities development corporation to one or more local governmental units or to a voluntary agency at the request of a commissioner of an office in the department. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 41.03
• local government: means a county, except a county within the city of New York, and the city of New York. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 41.03
• local governmental unit: means the unit of local government given authority in accordance with this chapter by local government to provide local services. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 41.03
• Local public safety answering point: means a site designated and operated by a local governmental entity for the purpose of receiving emergency calls from customers of a wireless telephone service supplier. See N.Y. County Law 325
• local services: includes services for individuals with mental illness or developmental disabilities whose conditions, including but not limited to cerebral palsy and epilepsy, are associated with mental disabilities, and those suffering from alcoholism, alcohol abuse, substance abuse or substance dependence, which are provided by a local government or by a voluntary agency pursuant to a contract with a local governmental unit or the office of mental health. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 41.03
• local services plan: means the plan of local services which is submitted by a local governmental unit and approved by the commissioner pursuant to section 41. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 41.03
• Long Island Pine Barrens maritime reserve: shall mean the reserve created pursuant to section 57-0109 of this title. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 57-0107
• Long lifetime: means more than twenty-four thousand hours when tested on a T8 instant start ballast, a T12 rapid start ballast, or a T5 programmed start ballast, and turned on and off every three hours ("three hour starts"). See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• Low-level radioactive waste: means radioactive material that:

  a. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0303

• Majority leader: see Floor Leaders
• Manifest: means the form used for identifying the quantity, composition, and the origin, routing, and destination of hazardous waste during its transportation from the point of generation to the point of disposal, treatment, or storage. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0901
• Manufacturer: means any person who manufactures mercury-added consumer products. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• Manufacturer: means a person who: (a) assembles or substantially assembles covered electronic equipment for sale in the state; (b) manufactures covered electronic equipment under its own brand name or under any other brand name for sale in the state; (c) sells, under its own brand name, covered electronic equipment sold in the state; (d) owns a brand name that it licenses to another person for use on covered electronic equipment sold in the state; (e) imports covered electronic equipment for sale in the state; or (f) manufactures covered electronic equipment for sale in the state without affixing a brand name. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2601
• Manufacturer: means the producer of a plastic carryout bag or film plastic sold to a store or the manufacturer's agent or broker who sold the plastic carryout bag or film plastic to the store. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2701
• Marine holding tank: means any container aboard any vessel, as defined in § 2 of the navigation law, that is designed and used for the purpose of collecting and storing treated or untreated sewage from marine toilets. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 56-0101
• Mental abnormality: means a congenital or acquired condition, disease or disorder that affects the emotional, cognitive, or volitional capacity of a person in a manner that predisposes him or her to the commission of conduct constituting a sex offense and that results in that person having serious difficulty in controlling such conduct. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 10.03
• Mercury hydrometer: means a mercury-added consumer product used for measuring the specific gravity of a liquid. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• Mercury sphygmomanometer: means a mercury-added consumer product used for measuring blood pressure in the arteries. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• Mercury switch: means a mercury-added consumer product or device that opens or closes an electrical circuit or gas valve. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• Mercury thermometer: means a mercury-added consumer product used for measuring temperature. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• Mercury thermostat: means a mercury-added consumer product that uses a mercury switch to sense and control room temperature through communication with heating, ventilating or air conditioning equipment. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• Mercury-added component: means a motor vehicle component that contains greater than fifteen milligrams of mercury, which was intentionally added to such vehicle in order to provide a specific characteristic, appearance or quality, to perform a specific function,

  or for any other purpose. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101

• Mercury-added consumer product: means any device or material into which elemental mercury or mercury compounds are intentionally added during such device's or material's formulation or manufacture, and in which the continued presence of mercury is required to provide a specific characteristic, appearance or quality, or to perform a specific function. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• Minimum status vote: means that, in addition to any other approval or vote required by this chapter, the certificate of incorporation or a bylaw adopted by the shareholders:

  (1) The holders of shares of every class or series that are entitled to vote on the corporate action shall be entitled to vote as a class on the corporate action; and

  (2) The corporate action must be approved by vote of the shareholders of each class or series entitled to cast at least three-quarters of the votes that all shareholders of the class or series are entitled to cast thereon. See N.Y. Business Corporation Law 1702

• Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
• Mitigation: means the investigation, sampling, management, or treatment of a solid waste site or drinking water contamination site required to ensure the availability of safe drinking water, including public water systems and individual onsite water supply systems necessary to meet standards, criteria, and guidance values established by the department or drinking water standards, including maximum contaminant levels, notification levels, maximum residual disinfectant levels, or action levels established by the department of health that can be successfully carried out with available, implementable and cost-effective technology. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1201
• Mobile crisis teams: shall mean a team that may include, but not be limited to, mental health professionals, certified alcoholism and substance abuse counselors, family peer advocates, and peers, to provide onsite community-based intervention for individuals who are experiencing a mental health crisis, or an "approved mobile crisis outreach team" under Article nine of the mental hygiene law. See N.Y. County Law 340
• Monitor: means a separate visual display component of a computer, whether sold separately or together with a computer central processing unit, and includes a cathode ray tube, liquid crystal display, gas plasma, digital light processing or other image projection technology, greater than four inches when measured diagonally, and its case, interior wires and circuitry, and any cable cord or wiring permanently affixed thereto or incorporated into such product. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2601
• 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 Vehicle: means any device which by virtue of its design could qualify for registration pursuant to section four hundred one, four hundred ten, two thousand two hundred sixty-one, or two thousand two hundred eighty-two of the vehicle and traffic law. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1901
• Municipal park project: means a project undertaken by a municipality or a not-for-profit corporation for the planning, structural assessment, acquisition, development or improvement of recreational facilities including construction of structures, roads and parking facilities. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 54-0901
• Municipal landfill closure project: means activities undertaken to close, including by reclamation, a landfill owned or operated by a municipality to achieve compliance with regulations promulgated by the department, or activities undertaken to implement a landfill gas management system. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 54-0501
• Municipal park project: means a project including an urban cultural park undertaken by a municipality for the acquisition, development or improvement of outdoor or indoor recreation facilities, including, but not limited to site acquisition, improvement, construction, reconstruction and improvement of structures, roads and parking facilities. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 52-0101
• Municipality: means any town, city, county or village. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1101
• Municipality: except as otherwise defined within this article, shall mean a city, county, town, village, public benefit corporation or school district or an improvement district within a city, county, town or village, or any combination thereof. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 51-0101
• Municipality: except as otherwise defined within this article, means a city, county, town, village, public benefit corporation or school district or an improvement district within a city, county, town or village, or Indian tribe residing within New York state, or any combination thereof. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 52-0101
• Municipality: means a local public authority or public benefit corporation, a county, city, town, village, or Indian tribe or nation residing within New York state, or any combination thereof. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 54-0101
• Municipality: means a local public authority or public benefit corporation, a county, city, town, village, school district, supervisory district, district corporation, improvement district within a county, city, town or village, or Indian nation or tribe recognized by the state or the United States with a reservation wholly or partly within the boundaries of New York state, or any combination thereof. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 56-0101
• Municipality: means any county except a county wholly contained within a city and any city having a population of one million or more persons. See N.Y. County Law 301
• 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}
• National Credit Union Administration: The federal regulatory agency that charters and supervises federal credit unions. (NCUA also administers the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, which insures the deposits of federal credit unions.) ^{Source: OCC}
• need for retention: means that a person who has been admitted to a school pursuant to this article is in need of involuntary care and treatment in a school for a further period. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 15.01
• net operating costs: means operating costs from which have been deducted the following:

  (a) revenues for operating costs received from other state agencies or another local government pursuant to an agreement to purchase local services. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 41.03

• New tires: means tires that have never been placed on a motor vehicle wheel rim or tires placed on a motor vehicle prior to its original retail sale. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1901
• New York instrument: means a money order, check, draft or other instrument or document for the transmission or payment of money, or which evidences an obligation for the transmission or payment of money, or which evidences the purchase or deposit of funds for the purchase of any such instrument or document, sold in New York, but shall not include a New York traveler's check. See N.Y. Banking Law 653
• 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.
• Noncompliant waste tire stockpile: means a facility, including a waste tire storage facility, parcel of property, or site so designated by the department in accordance with this title, where one thousand or more waste tires or mechanically processed waste tires have been accumulated, stored or buried in a manner that the department or a court of competent jurisdiction has determined violates any judicial administrative order, decree, law, regulation, or permit or stipulation relating to waste tires, waste tire storage facilities or solid waste. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1901
• Not-for-profit corporation: means a corporation formed pursuant to the not-for-profit corporation law and qualified for tax-exempt status under section 501(c)(3) of the federal internal revenue code. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 52-0101
• Not-for-profit corporation: means a corporation formed pursuant to the not-for-profit corporation law and qualified for tax-exempt status under the federal internal revenue code. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 54-0101
• Not-for-profit corporation: means a corporation formed pursuant to the not-for-profit corporation law and qualified for tax-exempt status under the federal internal revenue code. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 56-0101
• NSPL: shall mean the national network of local crisis centers that provide free and confidential emotional support to people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week via a toll-free hotline number, which receives calls made through the 9-8-8 system. See N.Y. County Law 340
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Offeree: means the beneficial owner, residing in this state, of securities which an offeror acquires or offers to acquire in connection with a takeover bid. See N.Y. Business Corporation Law 1601
• offeror: includes an issuer of securities whose securities are or are to be the subject of a takeover bid whether or not the issuer, upon acquisition, will become the beneficial owner of such securities. See N.Y. Business Corporation Law 1601
• Office: means the office of mental health. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 7.03
• Office: means the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 19.03
• Office: shall mean the office of parks and recreation. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 51-0101
• Office: means the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 52-0101
• Office: means the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 54-0101
• Office: means the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 56-0101
• Open space: means open or natural land in or near urban or suburban areas necessary to serve the scenic or recreation needs thereof. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 52-0101
• Open space land conservation project: means acquisition projects undertaken with willing sellers including, but not limited to, the purchase of conservation easements, undertaken by the commissioner, the commissioner of the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation or by municipalities pursuant to article twenty-five-AAA of the agriculture and markets law. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 56-0101
• operating costs: means expenditures, excluding capital costs, incurred in the operation and maintenance of the community mental health, developmental disabilities, and alcoholism services board and of local facilities in accordance with this article and the regulations of the commissioner, by a local government or by a voluntary agency pursuant to a contract with a local governmental unit. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 41.03
• Operator: means a person in control of, or having daily responsibility for, the daily operation of a store, which may include, but is not limited to, the owner of the store. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2701
• Oral argument: An opportunity for lawyers to summarize their position before the court and also to answer the judges' questions.
• Organization: shall mean a business entity, including but not limited to a corporation, trust, estate, partnership, cooperative, association, firm, club or society. See N.Y. New York City Administrative Code 20-102
• Organization certificate: includes (a) the original organization certificate or any other instrument filed or issued under any statute to form a corporation or foreign corporation, as amended, supplemented or restated by certificates of amendment, merger or consolidation or other certificates or instruments filed or issued under any statute; or (b) a special act or charter creating a corporation or foreign corporation, as amended, supplemented or restated by special acts or by certificates of amendment, merger or consolidation or other certificates or instruments filed or issued under any statute. See N.Y. Banking Law 9001
• Owner: shall mean any person or persons who owns a dwelling unit or commercial space located on real property. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2401
• Paper carryout bag: means a paper bag, other than an exempt bag, that is provided to a customer by a person required to collect tax to be used by the customer to carry tangible personal property, regardless of whether such person required to collect tax sells any tangible personal property or service to the customer, and regardless of whether any tangible personal property or service sold is exempt from tax under Article 28 of the tax law. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2801
• Park project: means a project undertaken by a municipality, state agency, public benefit corporation, public authority, or not-for-profit corporation for the acquisition, development or improvement of parks, preserves, beaches, shorefronts, recreational sites and facilities including construction of structures, roads and parking facilities. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 56-0101
• Peconic Bay system: shall mean the series of interconnected bodies of surface waters, including Flanders Bay, Great Peconic Bay, Little Peconic Bay, Noyack Bay, Shelter Island Sound, Southold Bay, Northwest Harbor, Orient Harbor, Gardiners Bay, Napeague Bay, Fort Pond Bay, the western portion of Block Island Sound, other semi-enclosed bays and harbors contiguous thereto, and all of the tidal creeks and freshwater streams that discharge into these interconnected basins. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 57-0107
• Peer: shall mean an individual who is a current or former recipient of mental health or substance use services who provides advocacy and mutual support for other services users through a model of shared personal experience, who are employed on the basis of their personal knowledge and recovery from a mental illness, addiction, or both, and who meet the certification requirements set forth by the New York state peer specialist certification board. See N.Y. County Law 340
• Person: means an individual or any corporation, company, limited liability company, partnership, association or other entity. See N.Y. Banking Law 599-B
• Person: when used in this article means an individual, partnership, corporation, unincorporated association, joint stock association, trust or other group, however organized. See N.Y. Banking Law 635
• Person: means an individual, trust, firm, joint stock company, corporation (including a government corporation), partnership, association, state, federal government and any agency thereof, municipality, commission, political subdivision of a state, or any interstate body. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0901
• Person: means any individual, public or private corporation, political subdivision, government agency, industry, partnership, association, firm, trust, estate or any other legal entity whatsoever. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1101
• Person: means an individual, trust, firm, joint stock company, limited liability company, corporation, joint venture, partnership, association, state, municipality, commission, political subdivision of a state, public benefit corporation or any interstate body. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1301
• Person: shall mean a natural person or an organization. See N.Y. New York City Administrative Code 20-102
• Person: means any individual, business entity, partnership, company,

  corporation,

  not-for-profit corporation, association, governmental entity, public benefit corporation, public authority, firm, organization, or any other group of individuals, or any officer or employee or agent thereof. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2601

• Person: means any individual, public or private corporation, political subdivision, government agency, department or bureau of the state or federal government, municipality, industry, co-partnership, association, firm, trust, estate or any other legal entity. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0303
• Person required to collect tax: means any vendor of tangible personal property subject to the tax imposed by subdivision (a) of § 1105 of the tax law. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2801
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Petty offense: A federal misdemeanor punishable by six months or less in prison. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Pine barrens: means a natural community of such biota as pitch pine, jack pine, and scrub oak which may be found associated with a variety of natural resources. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 52-0101
• Place of business: means the location at which a dealer sells or offers for sale beverages in beverage containers to consumers. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1003
• place of business: means the location at which a retailer sells or offers for sale to consumers, rechargeable batteries, or products containing such batteries at the time of sale;

  4. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1803

• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Plan: shall mean the comprehensive management plan created pursuant to section 57-0115 of this title. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 57-0107
• Plastic carryout bag: means a plastic carryout bag provided by a store to a customer at the point of sale. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2701
• 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.
• postconsumer paint: means architectural paint not used and no longer wanted by a consumer. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2001
• Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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.
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• producer: means a manufacturer of architectural paint who sells, offers for sale or distributes the architectural paint in the state. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2001
• Producer of mercury-added lamps: means any person who:

  (a) manufactures and sells mercury-added lamps under its own brand;

  (b) resells under its own brand equipment produced by other suppliers, a reseller not being regarded as the producer of mercury-added lamps if the brand of the producer of mercury-added lamps appears on the equipment, as provided for in paragraph (a) of this subdivision; or

  (c) serves as the importer or domestic distributor of a mercury-added lamp if the brand name owner is located outside of the United States. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101

• Professional service: means any type of service to the public which may be lawfully rendered by a member of a profession within the purview of his or her profession. See N.Y. Business Corporation Law 1501
• Professional service: means any type of service to the public which may be lawfully rendered by a member of a profession within the purview of his profession. See N.Y. Business Corporation Law 1525
• Professional service corporation: means a corporation organized under this article. See N.Y. Business Corporation Law 1501
• program: means the postconsumer paint collection program established pursuant to section 27-2003 of this title. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2001
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Psychiatric examiner: means a qualified psychiatrist or a licensed psychologist who has been designated to examine a person pursuant to this article; such designee may, but need not, be an employee of the office of mental health or the office for people with developmental disabilities. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 10.03
• Public access: means access to lands for public use, including stream rights and waterways. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 52-0101
• Public defender: Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters.
• 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 safety agency: means a functional division of a public agency which provides or has the authority to provide police, firefighting, emergency medical or ambulance services or other emergency services or a private entity which provides emergency medical or ambulance services. See N.Y. County Law 301
• Public service answering point: means a communications facility which first receives 911 calls from persons within a 911 service area and which may, as appropriate, directly dispatch the services of a public safety agency or extend, transfer, relay or otherwise route 911 calls to the appropriate public safety agency. See N.Y. County Law 301
• Purchaser: means a person who buys or has bought a New York instrument from an uninsured transmitter of money or agent thereof. See N.Y. Banking Law 653
• qualified psychiatrist: means a physician licensed to practice medicine in New York state who: (a) is a diplomate of the American board of psychiatry and neurology or is eligible to be certified by that board; or (b) is certified by the American osteopathic board of neurology and psychiatry or is eligible to be certified by that board. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 9.01
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Ranking minority member: The highest ranking (and usually longest serving) minority member of a committee or subcommittee.
• Real property: shall mean lands, tenements and hereditaments. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2401
• Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
• rechargeable battery: means any rechargeable nickel-cadmium, sealed lead, lithium ion, nickel metal hydride battery, or any other such dry cell battery capable of being recharged weighing less than twenty-five pounds, or battery packs containing such batteries; but shall not include a battery used as the principal electric power source for a vehicle, such as, but not limited to, an automobile, boat, truck, tractor, golf cart or wheelchair; for storage of electricity generated by an alternative power source, such as solar or wind-driven generators; or for memory backup that is an integral component of an electronic device;

  5. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1803

• Recyclables: means solid waste materials that exhibit the potential to be used to make marketable products for end users. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1901
• Recyclables recovery program: means a program undertaken by a municipality consistent with requirements of section one hundred twenty-aa of the general municipal law to provide for the environmentally sound recovery of recyclables, primarily involving the collection, aggregation and processing of recyclable materials for their use as raw materials for new products or for other useful purposes other than for energy recovery, through facilities planned, designed and constructed to ensure environmental protection and to maximize the potential for recyclables recovery. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 54-0701
• Recycle: means to use recyclables in manufacturing a product for an end use other than burning for recovery of useable energy. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1901
• Recycle: means to separate, dismantle or process the materials, components or commodities contained in electronic waste for the purpose of preparing the materials, components or commodities for use or reuse in new products or components thereof, but not for energy recovery or energy generation by means of combustion, gasification, pyrolysis or other means. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2601
• recycling: means a process by which discarded products, components and by-products are transformed into new usable or marketable materials in a manner in which the original products may lose their identity. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2001
• Recycling project: means recyclables recovery equipment, source separation equipment, a recyclables recovery program or any combination thereof required by a recyclables recovery program and the reimbursement to municipalities and not-for-profit corporations, as such terms are defined in section 54-0101 of this article, for the cost of a redemption center as defined in section 27-1003 of this chapter. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 54-0701
• Redeemer: means every person who demands the refund value provided for herein in exchange for the empty beverage container, but shall not include a dealer as defined in subdivision four of this section. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1003
• Redemption center: means any person offering to pay the refund value of an empty beverage container to a redeemer, or any person who contracts with one or more dealers or distributors to collect, sort and obtain the refund value and handling fee of empty beverage containers for, or on behalf of, such dealer or distributor under the provisions of section 27-1013 of this title. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1003
• region: shall include a county, except a county wholly encompassed by a city and any county with a population of one million or more. See N.Y. Canal Law 139-A
• Regulated waste: means any one of the following types of waste: raw sewage, septage, sludge from a sewage or water supply treatment plant, industrial-commercial waste, low-level radioactive waste as defined in subdivision nine of this section, waste tires or waste oil. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0303
• released: means release, conditional release or discharge from confinement, from community supervision by the department of corrections and community supervision, or from an order of observation, commitment, recommitment or retention. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 10.03
• 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.
• Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
• representative organization: means a not-for-profit organization established by producers to implement the postconsumer paint collection program. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2001
• 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.
• Reserve: shall mean a region in which there is a combination of publicly and privately owned lands and land uses, within a defined area where there are traditional cultural patterns including agriculture, finfishing, shellfishing and tourism, which due to their pattern and configuration, and because of the need for sustained productivity could best be protected and managed through the development of a comprehensive management plan around a preserve of protected, publicly owned lands and/or privately owned land dedicated for such purposes. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 57-0107
• Resource recovery: means the separation, extraction and recovery of useable materials, energy or heat from solid waste through source separation, recycling centers or other programs, projects or facilities. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0701
• Resource recovery: means any method, technique, or process utilized to separate, process, modify, convert, treat or otherwise prepare hazardous waste so that the component materials or substances thereof may be beneficially used or reused as raw materials, exclusive of useable energy. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0901
• Respondent: means a person referred to a case review team for evaluation, a person as to whom a sex offender civil management petition has been recommended by a case review team and not yet filed, or filed by the attorney general and not dismissed, or sustained by procedures under this article. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 10.03
• Responsible party: means a party responsible under applicable principles of statutory or common law liability to remediate the contamination located at, or emanating from, real property subject to an environmental restoration project. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 56-0101
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Retail sale: means the sale to any person in the state for any purpose other than resale. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1901
• retailer: means a person, firm or corporation that engages in the sale of rechargeable batteries, or products containing such batteries, to a consumer in the state, including, but not limited to, transactions conducted through sales outlets, catalogs, by mail, telephone or the internet. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1803
• retailer: means a person that offers architectural paint for sale at retail in the state. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2001
• Retailer: means any person in this state who sells new mercury-added consumer products to consumers for purposes other than resale. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• Retailer: means a person who sells covered electronic equipment to a person in the state through any means, including, but not limited to, transactions conducted through retail sales outlets, mail, catalogs, the telephone or the internet, or any electronic means. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2601
• Reuse: means the return of a product into the economic stream for use in the same kind of application as the product was originally intended to be used, without a change in the product's identity. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2001
• Reuse: means the use of electronic waste that is tested and certified to be in good working order and which was removed from the waste stream for use for the same purpose for which it was manufactured, including the continued use of whole systems or components. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2601
• Reverse vending machine: means an automated device that uses a laser scanner, microprocessor, or other technology to accurately recognize the universal product code (UPC) on containers to determine if the container is redeemable and accumulates information regarding containers redeemed, including the number of such containers redeemed, thereby enabling the reverse vending machine to accept containers from redeemers and to issue a scrip or receipt for their refund value. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1003
• Right of survivorship: The ownership rights that result in the acquisition of title to property by reason of having survived other co-owners.
• sale: means any transfer for consideration of title or the right to use, from a manufacturer or retailer to a person, including, but not limited to, transactions conducted through retail sales outlets, catalogs, mail, the telephone, the internet, or any electronic means; this does not include samples, donations, and reuse. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2001
• sale: means any transfer for consideration of title or the right to use, from a manufacturer or retailer to a person, including, but not limited to, transactions conducted through retail sales outlets, catalogs, mail, the telephone, the internet, or any electronic means; this includes transfer of new products or used products that may have been refurbished by their manufacturer or manufacturer-approved party and that are offered for sale by a manufacturer or retailer, but does not include consumer-to-consumer second-hand transfer. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2601
• secondary materials: shall mean material recovered from or otherwise destined for the waste stream, including but not limited to, post-consumer material, industrial scrap material and overstock or obsolete inventories from distributors, wholesalers and other companies as defined in rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner of economic development in consultation with the commissioner but such term does not include those materials and by-products generated from, and commonly reused within, an original manufacturing process. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0401
• Secretary: means the secretary of state. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 54-0101
• Secure treatment facility: means a facility or a portion of a facility, designated by the commissioner, that may include a facility located on the grounds of a correctional facility, that is staffed with

  personnel from the office of mental health or the office for people with developmental disabilities for the purposes of providing care and treatment to persons confined under this article, and persons defined in paragraph five of subdivision (g) of this section. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 10.03

• Septage: means the contents of a septic tank, cesspool or other individual sewage treatment facility which receives domestic sewage wastes. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0303
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Service supplier: means (i) a telephone corporation which provides local exchange access service within a 911 service area, or (ii) a provider of "voice over internet protocol service" or "VOIP service" that provides such service within a 911 service area. See N.Y. County Law 301
• Service supplier: means a telephone corporation which provides local exchange access service within a 911 service area. See N.Y. County Law 325
• Sex offender requiring civil management: means a detained sex offender who suffers from a mental abnormality. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 10.03
• Sex offender requiring strict and intensive supervision: means a detained sex offender who suffers from a mental abnormality but is not a dangerous sex offender requiring confinement. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 10.03
• Sex offense: means an act or acts constituting: (1) any felony defined in Article one hundred thirty of the penal law, including a sexually motivated felony; (2) patronizing a person for prostitution in the first degree as defined in section 230. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 10.03
• Sexually motivated: means that the act or acts constituting a designated felony were committed in whole or in substantial part for the purpose of direct sexual gratification of the actor. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 10.03
• ships: means any ocean going vessel used to carry passengers or freight in interstate or foreign commerce. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1003
• shoreline: means the lands between high and low water mark, the lands contiguous or adjacent to the high water mark, beaches, dunes and bluffs. See N.Y. County Law 280-A
• Small business: means any business which is resident in this state, independently owned and operated, not dominant in its field, and employs not more than one hundred individuals. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 56-0101
• Small electronic equipment: means any portable digital music player that has memory capability and is battery-powered, video cassette recorder, a digital video disc player, digital video recorder, digital converter box, cable or satellite receiver, or electronic or video game console, and includes any cable, cord, or wiring permanently affixed to or incorporated into any such product. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2601
• Small plastic bottle: means a plastic container with less than a twelve ounce capacity that is intended to be non-reusable by the end user. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-3201
• Small-scale server: means a computer that typically uses desktop components in a desktop form factor, but is designed primarily to be a storage host for other computers. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2601
• Solid waste: means all putrescible and non-putrescible materials or substances discarded or rejected as being spent, useless, worthless or in excess to the owners at the time of such discard or rejection, except including but not limited to garbage, refuse, industrial and commercial waste, sludges from air or water control facilities, rubbish, ashes, contained gaseous material, incinerator residue, demolition and construction debris, discarded automobiles and offal but not including sewage and other highly diluted water carried materials or substances and those in gaseous form. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0701
• Solid waste: means solid waste as defined in section 27-0701 of this article. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• Solid waste management: means the purposeful and systematic transportation, storage, processing, recovery and disposal of solid waste. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0701
• Solid waste management facility: means any facility employed beyond the initial solid waste collection process including, but not limited to, transfer stations, baling facilities, rail haul or barge haul facilities, processing systems, including resource recovery facilities or other facilities for reducing solid waste volume, sanitary landfills, facilities for the disposal of construction and demolition debris, plants and facilities for compacting, composting or pyrolization of solid wastes, incinerators and other solid waste disposal, reduction or conversion facilities. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0701
• Solid waste management facility: means a solid waste management facility as defined in section 27-0701 of this article. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• Solid waste site: means a site where (a) the department has a reasonable basis to suspect that the illegal disposal of solid waste occurred or, (b) a court of competent jurisdiction has determined that an illegal disposal of solid waste occurred, or (c) the department knows or has a reasonable basis to suspect that an inactive solid waste management facility which does not have a current monitoring program is impacting or contaminating one or more drinking water supplies. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1201
• Source separation equipment: shall mean :

  (a) Add-ons or trailers designed to modify collection vehicles to allow sorting and separation of collected wastes held for the purpose of recycling or collection vehicles whose function and design are exclusively for such purpose;

  (b) Containers for the source separation and temporary storage of recyclable wastes by residents or business prior to collection;

  (c) Bins, sheds or other facilities for the temporary storage of materials prior to transport for the purposes of recycling. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 51-0903

• Special purpose lights: means the following specialty lighting: appliance, black light, germicidal, colored, plant light, reflector, reprographic, shatter-resistant, cold temperature, sign service, and preheat. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2101
• Specific public benefit: includes :

  (1) providing low-income or underserved individuals or communities with beneficial products or services;

  (2) promoting economic opportunity for individuals or communities beyond the creation of jobs in the normal course of business;

  (3) preserving the environment;

  (4) improving human health;

  (5) promoting the arts, sciences or advancement of knowledge;

  (6) increasing the flow of capital to entities with a public benefit purpose; and

  (7) the accomplishment of any other particular benefit for society or the environment. See N.Y. Business Corporation Law 1702

• State assistance payment: means the payment of monies by the state for projects authorized by the environmental protection fund, to preserve, enhance, restore and improve the quality of the state's environment. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 54-0101
• State assistance payment: means payment of the state share of the cost of projects authorized by this act to preserve, enhance, restore and improve the quality of the state's environment. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 56-0101
• State public safety answering point: means a site designated and operated by the division of state police for the purposes of receiving emergency calls from customers of a wireless telephone service supplier. See N.Y. County Law 325
• Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
• Storage: means the holding of waste for a temporary period, at the end of which the waste is processed, recovered, disposed of, or stored elsewhere. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0303
• Storage: means the containment of hazardous waste, either on a temporary basis or for a period of years, in such a manner as not to constitute disposal of such hazardous waste. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0901
• Storage: means the containment of hazardous waste, either on a temporary basis or for a period of years, in such a manner as not to constitute disposal of such hazardous waste. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1101
• Store: means a retail establishment that provides plastic carryout bags to its customers as a result of the sale of a product and (a) has over ten thousand square feet of retail space, or (b) such retail establishment is part of a chain engaged in the same general field of business which operates five or more units of over five thousand square feet of retail space in this state under common ownership and management. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2701
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Surface water: shall mean lakes, bays, sounds, ponds, impounding reservoirs, perennial streams and springs, rivers, creeks, estuaries, marshes, inlets, canals, the Atlantic ocean within the territorial limits of New York state, and all other perennial bodies of surface water, natural or artificial, inland or coastal, fresh or salt, public or private, pursuant to article 15 of this chapter. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2301
• System costs: means the costs associated with obtaining and maintaining the telecommunication equipment, all operations and maintenance costs and the telephone services costs necessary to establish and provide an E911 system. See N.Y. County Law 301
• Takeover bid: means the acquisition of or offer to acquire by an offeror from an offeree, pursuant to a tender offer or request or invitation for tenders, any equity security of a target company, if after acquisition thereof the offeror would, directly or indirectly, be a beneficial owner of more than five percent of any class of the issued and outstanding equity securities of such target company. See N.Y. Business Corporation Law 1601
• Target company: means a corporation, organized under the laws of this state and having its principal executive offices or significant business operations located within this state. See N.Y. Business Corporation Law 1601
• Television: means a display system containing a cathode ray tube or any other type of display primarily intended to receive video

  programming via broadcast, cable or satellite transmission, having a viewable area greater than four inches when measured diagonally. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2601

• 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.
• Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Third-party standard: means a recognized standard for defining, reporting and assessing general public benefit that is:

  (1) developed by a person that is independent of the benefit corporation; and

  (2) transparent because the following information about the standard is publicly available:

  (A) the factors considered when measuring the performance of a business;

  (B) the relative weightings of those factors; and

  (C) the identity of the persons who developed and control changes to the standard and the process by which those changes are made. See N.Y. Business Corporation Law 1702

• Tire service: means any person or business in New York state who sells or installs new tires for use on any vehicle and any person or business who engages in the retail sale of new motor vehicles. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1901
• Trailways: means recreational trails developed under guidelines established for the development of a statewide trails system. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 52-0101
• 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.
• Transmitter of money: means a licensee, as such term is defined in subdivision two of section six hundred forty of this chapter, a bank, trust company, private banker, savings bank and savings and loan association, a credit union, foreign banking corporation licensed pursuant to article two of this chapter and any investment company which either directly or through agents transacts the business in this state of selling or issuing New York instruments. See N.Y. Banking Law 653
• Transport: means the movement of hazardous waste from the point of generation to any intermediate points and finally to the point of ultimate storage or disposal. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0901
• Treatment: means any method, technique, or process, including neutralization, designed to change the physical, chemical or biological character or composition of any hazardous waste so as to neutralize such waste or as to render such waste nonhazardous, safer for transport, amenable for recovery, amenable for storage, or reduced in volume. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0901
• Treatment: means any method, technique, or process including neutralization, designed to change the physical, chemical or biological character or composition of any hazardous waste so as to neutralize such waste or as to render such waste nonhazardous, safer for transport, amenable for recovery, amenable for storage, or reduced in volume. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1101
• Treatment facility: means a facility designated by the commissioner which may only include a general hospital as defined in Article 28 of the public health law, or a medically managed or medically supervised withdrawal, inpatient rehabilitation,

  or residential stabilization treatment program that has been certified by the commissioner to have appropriate medical staff available on-site at all times to provide emergency services and continued evaluation of capacity of individuals retained under this section or a crisis stabilization center licensed pursuant to article 36. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 22.09

• Uninsured transmitter of money: means a transmitter of money other than a banking organization, whose New York instruments are uninsured by a federal insuring agency. See N.Y. Banking Law 653
• Unique character: means lands of special natural beauty, wilderness character, geological, ecological or historical significance suitable for the state nature and historic preserve and similar lands within a forest preserve county outside the Adirondack and Catskill parks. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 52-0101
• UPC code: means a standard for encoding a set of lines and spaces that can be scanned and interpreted into numbers to identify a product. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1003
• Urban areas: means cities, villages or towns with a population density of greater than one thousand persons per square mile. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 53-0303
• Urban forestry: means the planning, establishment, protection and other management of trees and other vegetation in urban areas for present and potential contribution to the physiological, sociological, and economic well-being of urban society. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 53-0303
• Use or consumption: means the exercise of any right or power incident to the ownership of a beverage, other than the sale or the keeping or retention of a beverage for the purpose of sale. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1003
• User fees: Fees charged to users of goods or services provided by the government. In levying or authorizing these fees, the legislature determines whether the revenue should go into the treasury or should be available to the agency providing the goods or services.
• VCL: shall mean the veterans crisis line maintained by the secretary of veterans affairs of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. See N.Y. County Law 340
• Vector: shall mean a carrier that is capable of transmitting a pathogen from one organism to another including, but not limited to, flies and other insects, rodents, birds and vermin. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-2301
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Veto: The procedure established under the Constitution by which the President/Governor refuses to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevents its enactment into law. A regular veto occurs when the President/Governor returns the legislation to the house in which it originated. The President/Governor usually returns a vetoed bill with a message indicating his reasons for rejecting the measure. In Congress, the veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House.
• voluntary agency: means a corporation organized or existing pursuant to the not-for-profit corporation law for the purpose of providing local services. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 41.03
• Waste: means any garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant or air pollution control facility, and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining and agricultural operations and from community activities, but does not include solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges which are point sources subject to permits under article 17 of this chapter, or source, special nuclear or by-product material as defined in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (68 Stat. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0303
• Waste: means any garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility, and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining and agricultural operations and from community activities, but does not include solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges which are point sources subject to permits under section four hundred two of the federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended (86 Stat. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0901
• Waste: means any garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility, and other discarded material, whether or not such material may eventually be used for some other purpose, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining and agricultural operations or from community activities, and source, special nuclear or by-product material as defined in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, except as may be provided by existing agreements between the state of New York and the

  government of the United States, but does not include solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges which are point sources subject to permits under article seventeen of this chapter. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1301

• Waste oil: means used engine lubricating oil and any other oil, including but not limited to, fuel oil, motor oil, gear oil, cutting oil, transmission fluid, hydraulic fluid, dielectric fluid, oil storage tank residue, animal oil, and vegetable oil, which has been contaminated by physical or chemical impurities, through use or accident, and has not subsequently been rerefined. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0303
• Waste reduction projects: means projects undertaken to reduce the volume or toxicity of material entering the municipal solid waste stream, by reducing the volume or toxicity of such material at the point of generation. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 54-0701
• Waste tire: means any solid waste which consists of whole tires or portions of tires. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1901
• Waste tires: shall mean waste tires transported for a fee for the purpose of reuse, recycling or disposal, except those tires collected and transported incidental to the collection and transportation of solid waste. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0303
• Water: means any beverage identified through the use of letters, words or symbols on its product label as a type of water, including any flavored water or nutritionally enhanced water, provided, however, that "water" does not include any beverage identified as a type of water to which a sugar has been added. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1003
• Wetlands: means freshwater wetlands as defined in article twenty-four of this chapter and tidal wetlands as defined in article twenty-five of this chapter. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 52-0101
• Wildlife habitat: means specific areas essential for the conservation of threatened and endangered species which require special management considerations or protection for maintenance of such species. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 52-0101
• Wireless communications service: means all commercial mobile services, as that term is defined in section 332(d) of title 47, United States Code, as amended from time to time, including, but not limited to, all broadband personal communications services, wireless radio telephone services, geographic area specialized and enhanced specialized mobile radio services, and incumbent-wide area specialized mobile radio licensees, which offer real time, two-way voice or data service that is interconnected with the public switched telephone network or otherwise provides access to emergency communications services. See N.Y. County Law 301
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.