Terms Used In New York Laws > Veterans' Services > Article 3 - Participation By Service-disabled Veterans With Respect to State Contracts

• Commissioner: shall mean the commissioner of the office of general services. See N.Y. Veterans' Services Law 40
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Director: shall mean the director of the division of service-disabled veterans' business development. See N.Y. Veterans' Services Law 40
• Division: shall mean the division of service-disabled veterans' business development in the office of general services. See N.Y. Veterans' Services Law 40
• 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.
• 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.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Service-disabled veteran: shall mean (a) a veteran as defined in section one of this chapter and who received a compensation rating of ten percent or greater from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs or from the United States department of defense because of a service-connected disability incurred in the line of duty, and (b) in the case of the New York guard or the New York naval militia and/or reserves thereof, a veteran who certifies, pursuant to the rules and regulations promulgated by the director, to having incurred an injury equivalent to a compensation rating of ten percent or greater from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs or from the United States Department of Defense because of a service-connected disability incurred in the line of duty. See N.Y. Veterans' Services Law 40
• State agency: shall mean : (a)(i) any state department; or (ii) any division, board, commission or bureau of any state department; or (iii) the state university of New York and the city university of New York, including all their constituent units except community colleges and the independent institutions operating statutory or contract colleges on behalf of the state; or (iv) a board, a majority of whose members are appointed by the governor or who serve by virtue of being state officers or employees as defined in subparagraph (i), (ii) or (iii) of paragraph (i) of subdivision one of § 73 of the public officers law. See N.Y. Veterans' Services Law 40
• state contract: shall mean : (i) a written agreement or purchase order instrument, providing for a total expenditure in excess of twenty-five thousand dollars, whereby a contracting agency is committed to expend or does expend funds in return for labor, services including but not limited to legal, financial and other professional services, supplies, equipment, materials or any combination of the foregoing, to be performed for, or rendered or furnished to the contracting agency; (ii) a written agreement in excess of one hundred thousand dollars whereby a contracting agency is committed to expend or does expend funds for the acquisition, construction, demolition, replacement, major repair or renovation of real property and improvements thereon; and (iii) a written agreement in excess of one hundred thousand dollars whereby the owner of a state assisted housing project is committed to expend or does expend funds for the acquisition, construction, demolition, replacement, major repair or renovation of real property and improvements thereon for such project. See N.Y. Veterans' Services Law 40
• Veteran: shall mean (a) a veteran as defined in section one of this chapter, or (b) a member of the New York guard who was discharged under other than dishonorable conditions, or (c) has a qualifying condition, as defined in section one of this chapter, and has received a discharge other than bad conduct or dishonorable from such service, or (d) is a discharged LGBT veteran, as defined in section one of this chapter, and has received a discharge other than bad conduct or dishonorable from such service. See N.Y. Veterans' Services Law 40