Terms Used In New York Laws > General Municipal > Article 5-B - Common Water Supplies

• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Board of directors: means the board of directors of a municipal assistance corporation. See N.Y. Public Authorities Law 3003
• City: means the city of New York. See N.Y. Public Authorities Law 3032
• Comptroller: means the comptroller of the state of New York. See N.Y. Public Authorities Law 3003
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: means the corporate governmental agency created by section three thousand thirty-three of this chapter. See N.Y. Public Authorities Law 3032
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Governor: means the governor of the state of New York. See N.Y. Public Authorities Law 3003
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• Legislature: means the legislature of the state of New York. See N.Y. Public Authorities Law 3003
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Mayor: means the mayor of the city of New York. See N.Y. Public Authorities Law 3032
• Municipal assistance corporation: means a corporation created pursuant to section three thousand ten of this article. See N.Y. Public Authorities Law 3003
• municipality: as used in this article shall mean a city, a village, a county on behalf of a county water district and a town acting on behalf of a water district or water storage and distribution district, including a water district governed by a separate board of commissioners. See N.Y. General Municipal Law 110
• notes: means bonds and notes, respectively, issued by a municipal assistance corporation pursuant to this article. See N.Y. Public Authorities Law 3003
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Obligations: means bonds and notes. See N.Y. Public Authorities Law 3003
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Revenues: means all federal or state aid, rents, fees, charges, payments and other income and receipts paid or payable to a municipal assistance corporation or for the account of a municipal assistance corporation, including any payment permitted or required to be made to such a corporation by this article. See N.Y. Public Authorities Law 3003
• State: means the state of New York. See N.Y. Public Authorities Law 3003
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Variable Rate: Having a "variable" rate means that the APR changes from time to time based on fluctuations in an external rate, normally the Prime Rate. This external rate is known as the "index." If the index changes, the variable rate normally changes. Also see Fixed Rate.
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.