Terms Used In N.Y. Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law 796

• Commissioner: means the commissioner, chief supervisor or chief officer of a department. See N.Y. Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law 796
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Department: means a department, agency or office. See N.Y. Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law 796
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• Owner: means the owner or owners of the dwelling, mortgagee or vendee in possession, assignee of rents, receiver, executor, trustee, lessee, agent, or any other person or entity directly or indirectly in control of a dwelling, but shall not include a receiver appointed pursuant to § 309 of the multiple dwelling law. See N.Y. Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law 796
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, trust or other group or legal entity, however organized. See N.Y. Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law 796
• premises: means any building or structure or portion thereof which is occupied in whole or in part as the home, residence or sleeping place of one or more human beings and is either rented, leased, let or hired out, to be occupied as such, including, but not limited to, an apartment building, a condominium, a townhouse, a single-family house or a multiple-family residence building. See N.Y. Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law 796
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.