Terms Used In New York Laws > Public Housing > Article 13 > Title 2 - Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority

• Ambulance company: shall mean a municipal ambulance service or a voluntary ambulance service, but shall not include an ambulance service organized pursuant to section two hundred nine-b of this chapter. See N.Y. General Municipal Law 219-K
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Elected or appointed position: means the directors, president, vice president, treasurer, secretary, other corporate officers and line officers of an ambulance company. See N.Y. General Municipal Law 219-K
• 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.
• Entitlement age: means the age designated by the sponsor at which a program participant is entitled to begin receiving an unreduced service award. See N.Y. General Municipal Law 219-K
• Nonforfeitable: means the unconditional and legally enforceable right to receive a service award. See N.Y. General Municipal Law 219-K
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Participant: means a volunteer ambulance worker who satisfies the age and service requirements of subdivision one of section two hundred nineteen-m of this article. See N.Y. General Municipal Law 219-K
• Political subdivision: means a county, city, town, village, ambulance district, or fire protection district which contracts with an ambulance service which is not organized pursuant to section two hundred nine-b of this chapter. See N.Y. General Municipal Law 219-K
• program: means a defined benefit plan established, adopted and maintained under this article to provide service awards for volunteer ambulance workers. See N.Y. General Municipal Law 219-K
• Service award: means the benefit payable pursuant to a service award program. See N.Y. General Municipal Law 219-K
• Volunteer ambulance worker: means an active volunteer member of an ambulance company as specified on a list regularly maintained by the company for purposes of the volunteer ambulance workers' benefit law. See N.Y. General Municipal Law 219-K
• Year of ambulance service: means a calendar year during which a volunteer ambulance worker accumulates at least fifty points in accordance with the system established pursuant to subdivision three of section two hundred nineteen-m of this article. See N.Y. General Municipal Law 219-K