Terms Used In N.Y. General Business Law 243

  • Aircraft: means any contrivance, now or hereafter invented, for avigation of or flight in the air, except a parachute or other contrivance designed for use, and carried primarily for safety equipment. See N.Y. General Business Law 240
  • Airport: means any landing area used regularly by aircraft for receiving or discharging passengers or cargo; or for the landing and take-off of aircraft being used for personal or training purposes. See N.Y. General Business Law 240
  • Avigation: means the steering, directing or managing of an aircraft, in or through the air; and such term is here used as a substitute for "aerial navigation. See N.Y. General Business Law 240
  • 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.

The public safety requiring, and the advantages of uniform regulation making it desirable, in the interest of aeronautical progress, that aircraft to be avigated within this state should conform, with respect to design, construction and airworthiness, to standards prescribed by the United States government with respect to avigation of aircraft subject to its jurisdiction, it shall be unlawful for any person to avigate an aircraft within this state unless it is licensed and registered by the department of transportation of the United States in the manner prescribed by the lawful rules and regulations of the United States government then in force. The license for such aircraft must be carried and conspicuously posted in the aircraft while in flight. Such license also shall be presented for inspection, on demand, to any peace officer, acting pursuant to his special duties, or police officer, or to any official, manager or person in charge of an airport or landing place where the aircraft may be. The provisions of this section shall not apply to aircraft used exclusively in the governmental service of the United States, or used exclusively in the service of the national guard or of one or more of the civil departments of this state.