Terms Used In New York Laws > Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation > Title D > Article 21 - General Provisions

• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• commission: shall mean the Albany Pine Bush preserve commission created pursuant to section 46-0105 of this article. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 46-0103
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Dealer: shall mean a person engaged in the business of selling snowmobiles at wholesale or retail. See N.Y. Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Law 21.05
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Executive officer: shall mean :
  
  (a) In the case of a county, the county executive unless there is none, in which case it shall mean the county manager if there is one, or the chairman of the county legislative body if there is neither a county executive nor county manager. See N.Y. Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Law 21.05
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Highway: shall mean the entire width between the boundary lines of any way or place when any part thereof is open to the use of the public, as a matter of right, for the purpose of vehicular traffic. See N.Y. Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Law 21.05
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• 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.
• Operate: shall mean to ride in or on, other than as a passenger, or use or control the operation of a snowmobile in any manner, whether or not said snowmobile is under way. See N.Y. Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Law 21.05
• Owner: shall mean any person having title to a snowmobile. See N.Y. Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Law 21.05
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• preserve: shall mean lands in the city of Albany and towns of Guilderland and Colonie in the county of Albany characterized by the growth of pitch pine and scrub oak, pine barrens, vernal ponds and/or the presence of sand dunes which are dedicated for protection and beneficial public use pursuant to section 46-0107 of this article. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 46-0103
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Register: shall mean the act of assigning a registration number to a snowmobile. See N.Y. Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Law 21.05
• Roadway: shall mean that portion of a highway improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the shoulder. See N.Y. Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Law 21.05
• Shoulder: shall mean that portion of a highway which lies outside the paved or unpaved roadway immediately adjacent to the portion of the roadway which may be used by motor vehicles. See N.Y. Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Law 21.05
• Snowmobile: shall mean a self-propelled vehicle equipped with a motor, originally manufactured and designed for travel on snow or ice, steered by skis or runners and supported in whole or in part by one or more skis, belts or tracked cleats. See N.Y. Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Law 21.05
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.