Terms Used In New York Laws > Vehicle and Traffic > Title 8 - Respective Powers of State and Local Authorities

• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• 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.
• Central business district: means the area described in section seventeen hundred four of this article for which tolls shall be charged for a vehicle's entry into or remaining in such district. See N.Y. Vehicle and Traffic Law 1703
• Central business district toll: means a toll charged for entry into or remaining in the central business district as described in section seventeen hundred four of this article. See N.Y. Vehicle and Traffic Law 1703
• Central business district tolling customer service center: means the customer contact and back-office system and operation services for the collection of central business district tolls and enforcement of central business district toll violations that the Triborough bridge and tunnel authority will plan, design, implement and operate as part of the central business district tolling program. See N.Y. Vehicle and Traffic Law 1703
• Central business district tolling infrastructure: means the devices and structures including but not limited to gantries, clear signage delineating entry into the central business district and toll amounts, and power and communication lines that the Triborough bridge and tunnel authority will plan, design, construct, and use as part of the central business district tolling program. See N.Y. Vehicle and Traffic Law 1703
• Central business district tolling program: means the program for charging tolls for vehicles that enter or remain in the central business district and includes the central business district tolling infrastructure, the central business district tolling collection system and the central business district tolling customer service center. See N.Y. Vehicle and Traffic Law 1703
• city: shall mean a city (a) which is co-terminous with a city school district or (b) in which a city school district is wholly or partly located. See N.Y. Real Property Tax Law 1300
• City: means the city of New York. See N.Y. Vehicle and Traffic Law 1703
• city school district: shall mean a school district to which Article fifty-one of the education law is applicable. See N.Y. Real Property Tax Law 1300
• College: shall mean any institution of higher education, recognized and approved by the regents of the university of the state of New York, which provides a course of study leading to the granting of a post-secondary degree or diploma. See N.Y. Education Law 601
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of education of the State of New York. See N.Y. Education Law 561
• Concurrent resolution: A legislative measure, designated "S. Con. Res." and numbered consecutively upon introduction, generally employed to address the sentiments of both chambers, to deal with issues or matters affecting both houses, such as a concurrent budget resolution, or to create a temporary joint committee. Concurrent resolutions are not submitted to the President/Governor and thus do not have the force of law.
• core documents: shall mean those public documents for which library users have the most significant and frequent need. See N.Y. New York State Printing and Public Documents Law 10
• corporation: shall mean every public authority and public benefit corporation a majority of the governing board members of which are either appointed by the governor or serve as members by virtue of their service as an officer of a state department, division, agency, board or bureau, or combination thereof. See N.Y. New York State Printing and Public Documents Law 10
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Digital network: means any system or service offered or utilized by a transportation network company that enables TNC prearranged trips with transportation network company drivers. See N.Y. Vehicle and Traffic Law 1691
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• 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.
• Extradition: The formal process of delivering an accused or convicted person from authorities in one state to authorities in another state.
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Group policy: means an insurance policy issued pursuant to § 3455 of the insurance law. See N.Y. Vehicle and Traffic Law 1691
• 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}
• Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
• Nonpublic school: means any nonprofit elementary or secondary school in the State of New York, other than a public school, which (i) is providing instruction in accordance with article seventeen and section thirty-two hundred four of this chapter, (ii) has not been found to be in violation of Title VI Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat. See N.Y. Education Law 561
• Operation date: means the date determined by the Triborough bridge and tunnel authority, which shall not be earlier than December thirty-first, two thousand twenty, for the beginning of the operation and enforcement of the central business district tolling program. See N.Y. Vehicle and Traffic Law 1703
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Parent: means a legal resident of the state of New York with a New York taxable income of under five thousand dollars who is a parent, stepparent, adoptive parent and the spouse of an adoptive parent of a pupil enrolled in a nonpublic school, or a resident with such taxable income standing in loco parentis to such pupil. See N.Y. Education Law 561
• passenger: means a person or persons who use a transportation network company's digital network to connect with a transportation network company driver who provides TNC prearranged trips to the passenger in the TNC vehicle between points chosen by the passenger. See N.Y. Vehicle and Traffic Law 1691
• 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.
• President: shall mean the president of the New York state higher education services corporation. See N.Y. Education Law 601
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• public document: shall mean any final annual, biennial, regular, statutorily mandated or other report, study or multi-year plan issued by a state agency in multiple copies, which has been distributed to the public, except items issued strictly for administrative or operational purposes, inter-agency and intra-agency memoranda, drafts of reports, public service announcements, written opinions rendered in cases determined in the court of appeals, appellate divisions of the supreme court or any other court of record and any public documents or portions thereof that are compiled for law enforcement purposes and which, if disclosed, would interfere with law enforcement investigations or judicial proceedings, deprive a person of the right to a fair trial or impartial adjudication, identify a confidential source or disclose confidential information relating to a criminal investigation or reveal criminal investigative techniques or procedures, other than routine techniques and procedures. See N.Y. New York State Printing and Public Documents Law 10
• Pupil: means a resident of the state of New York who has been enrolled full-time in a nonpublic school and whose parents' combined taxable income is less than five thousand dollars. See N.Y. Education Law 561
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Regular school year: means all of the months of the calendar year exclusive of July and August. See N.Y. Education Law 561
• state agency: shall mean any state office, department, division, board, bureau, commission or corporation, provided, however, it shall not include the New York state legislature or any of its standing, special, select and joint committees, subcommittees and legislative commissions. See N.Y. New York State Printing and Public Documents Law 10
• Taxable income: means the amount of combined net taxable income, if any, of both parents computed in accordance with the provisions of § 611 of the tax law computed without the benefit of the modification of federal adjusted gross income for nonpublic school tuition pursuant to paragraph (14) of subsection (c) of § 612 of the tax law, for the year for which a tuition reimbursement payment is sought. See N.Y. Education Law 561
• TNC: means a person, corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship, or other entity that is licensed pursuant to this article and is operating in New York state exclusively using a digital network to connect transportation network company passengers to transportation network company drivers who provide TNC prearranged trips. See N.Y. Vehicle and Traffic Law 1691
• TNC driver: means an individual who:

  (a) Receives connections to potential passengers and related services from a transportation network company in exchange for payment of a fee to the transportation network company; and

  (b) Uses a TNC vehicle to offer or provide a TNC prearranged trip to transportation network company passengers upon connection through a digital network controlled by a transportation network company in exchange for compensation or payment of a fee. See N.Y. Vehicle and Traffic Law 1691

• TNC vehicle: means a vehicle that is:

  (a) used by a transportation network company driver to provide a TNC prearranged trip originating within the state of New York; and

  (b) owned, leased or otherwise authorized for use by the transportation network company driver;

  (c) such term shall not include:

  (i) a taxicab, as defined in section one hundred forty-eight-a of this chapter and section 19-502 of the administrative code of the city of New York, or as otherwise defined in local law;

  (ii) a livery vehicle, as defined in section one hundred twenty-one-e of this chapter, or as otherwise defined in local law;

  (iii) a black car, limousine, or luxury limousine, as defined in section 19-502 of the administrative code of the city of New York, or as otherwise defined in local law;

  (iv) a for-hire vehicle, as defined in section 19-502 of the administrative code of the city of New York, or as otherwise defined in local law;

  (v) a bus, as defined in section one hundred four of this chapter;

  (vi) any motor vehicle weighing more than six thousand five hundred pounds unloaded;

  (vii) any motor vehicle having a seating capacity of more than seven passengers; and

  (viii) any motor vehicle subject to section three hundred seventy of this chapter. See N.Y. Vehicle and Traffic Law 1691

• Triborough bridge and tunnel authority: means the corporation organized pursuant to § 552 of the public authorities law as consolidated pursuant to section five hundred fifty-two-a of the public authorities law or any successor corporation or corporation into which it may be consolidated. See N.Y. Vehicle and Traffic Law 1703
• trip: means the provision of transportation by a transportation network company driver to a passenger provided through the use of a TNC's digital network:

  (i) beginning when a transportation network company driver accepts a passenger's request for a trip through a digital network controlled by a transportation network company;

  (ii) continuing while the transportation network company driver transports the requesting passenger in a TNC vehicle; and

  (iii) ending when the last requesting passenger departs from the TNC vehicle. See N.Y. Vehicle and Traffic Law 1691

• Tuition: means the amount actually paid by a parent for the enrollment of a pupil at a nonpublic school for the calendar year for which a tuition reimbursement payment is sought. See N.Y. Education Law 561
• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.