Terms Used In New York Laws > Banking > Article 9-A - Licensed Cashers of Checks

• Accompaniment services: means services that assure the presence of a trained rape crisis worker to assist and support the client, at hospitals, law enforcement agencies, district attorneys' offices, courts and other agencies. See N.Y. Public Health Law 695-A
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Authorized collector: means : (a) a person, company, corporation or other entity that is registered with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration to collect controlled substances for the purposes of safe disposal and destruction; (b) a law enforcement agency; or (c) a person, company, corporation or other entity authorized by the department to provide alternative collection methods for covered drugs that are not controlled substances. See N.Y. Public Health Law 290
• Body piercing: shall mean the piercing of any part of the body, except the ear. See N.Y. Public Health Law 460
• Body piercing specialist: shall mean any person who performs body piercing on the body of any other person. See N.Y. Public Health Law 460
• Body piercing studio: shall mean any premises in which the body piercing specialist conducts such practice. See N.Y. Public Health Law 460
• Client: means any person seeking or receiving the services of a rape crisis counselor for the purpose of securing counseling or assistance concerning any sex offense, sexual abuse, incest, or attempt to commit a sex offense, sexual abuse, or incest. See N.Y. Public Health Law 695-A
• Commissioner: shall mean the commissioner of health. See N.Y. Public Health Law 460
• Community prevention: means public education projects designed to encourage victim use of rape crisis intervention services, educating the general public about the availability and significance of rape crisis intervention services, providing sex offense, sexual abuse or incest prevention and personal safety information, providing other education programs which sensitize service providers and the general public about the nature of sex offenses, sexual abuse or incest and the needs of survivors of a sex offense, sexual abuse or incest. See N.Y. Public Health Law 695-A
• Community support system: means a system of service providers in a community designed to meet the needs of a victim of a sex offense, sexual abuse or incest. See N.Y. Public Health Law 695-A
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• 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.
• Counseling: means individual communication and interaction which helps the client make choices and act upon those choices, provided to a client concerning any sex offense, sexual abuse, incest, or attempt to commit a sex offense, sexual abuse, or incest. See N.Y. Public Health Law 695-A
• Covered drug: means any substance recognized as a drug under 21 USC § 321(g)(1), as amended, and any regulations promulgated thereunder that is sold, offered for sale or dispensed in the state, whether directly or through a wholesaler, in any form including prescription and nonprescription drugs, drugs in medical devices and combination products, brand and generic drugs and drugs for veterinary use; provided however, covered drug shall not include: (a) vitamins or supplements; (b) herbal-based remedies and homeopathic drugs, products or remedies; (c) cosmetics, soap (with or without germicidal agents), laundry detergent, bleach, household cleaning products, shampoos, sunscreens, toothpaste, lip balm, antiperspirants or other personal care products that are regulated as both cosmetics and nonprescription drugs under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; (d) pet pesticide products contained in pet collars, powders, shampoos, topical applications, or other forms; (e) drugs that are biological products as defined in subdivision twenty-seven of § 6802 of the education law if the manufacturer already provides a take back program; (f) drugs for which a manufacturer provides a take back program as part of a Federal Food and Drug Administration managed risk evaluation and mitigation strategy; (g) emptied injector products or emptied medical devices and their component parts or accessories; and (h) drugs that are used solely in a clinical setting. See N.Y. Public Health Law 290
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: shall mean the department of health. See N.Y. Public Health Law 460
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• Drug take back organization: means an organization designated by a manufacturer or a group of manufacturers to act as an agent on behalf of the manufacturer or group of manufacturers to operate and implement a drug take back program as authorized by this article. See N.Y. Public Health Law 290
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Hotline: means twenty-four-hour access to rape crisis intervention and prevention services including telephone hotline and telephone counseling capabilities. See N.Y. Public Health Law 695-A
• 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.
• licensed casher of checks: means any individual, partnership, unincorporated association or corporation duly licensed by the superintendent of financial services to engage in business pursuant to the provisions of this article. See N.Y. Banking Law 366
• licensee: means a licensed casher of checks, drafts and/or money orders. See N.Y. Banking Law 366
• Majority leader: see Floor Leaders
• Manufacturer: means a person, company, corporation or other entity engaged in the manufacture of covered drugs sold in the state. See N.Y. Public Health Law 290
• mobile unit: means any vehicle or other movable means from which the business of cashing checks, drafts or money orders is to be conducted. See N.Y. Banking Law 366
• National Bank: A bank that is subject to the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. A national bank can be recognized because it must have "national" or "national association" in its name. ^{Source: OCC}
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Officer: shall mean the public official with primary responsibility for the enforcement of the state sanitary code within a county, or within a city with a population of one million or more persons. See N.Y. Public Health Law 460
• 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.
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Pharmacies: means all pharmacies registered under § 6808 of the education law that are part of a group of ten or more establishments that conduct business under the same name, or operate under a common ownership or management, or pursuant to a franchise agreement with the same franchisor, and all nonresident pharmacies registered pursuant to § 6808-b of the education law that provide covered drugs to state residents by mail. See N.Y. Public Health Law 290
• 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.
• Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Rape crisis intervention and prevention program: means any program which has been approved by the department offering counseling and assistance to clients concerning sex offenses, sexual abuse, or incest. See N.Y. Public Health Law 695-A
• Recruitment and training programs: means programs designed to recruit and train staff or volunteers in a rape crisis intervention and prevention program as well as training or education to other agencies participating in a community support system. See N.Y. Public Health Law 695-A
• Referral: means referral to and assistance with medical services and services of criminal justice agencies, mental health agencies, or other entities providing related services. See N.Y. Public Health Law 695-A
• 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.
• Repackager: means an entity that owns or operates an establishment that repacks and relabels a product or package containing a covered drug for further sale or for distribution without further transaction. See N.Y. Public Health Law 290
• Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
• salary: shall mean the amount of compensation that is to be paid to a teacher for services rendered during the full ten months period that the public schools of the district are required by law to be in session during any school year. See N.Y. Education Law 3101
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Tattoo: shall mean a mark on the body of a person made with indelible ink or pigments injected beneath the outer layer of the skin. See N.Y. Public Health Law 460
• Tattoo studio: shall mean any premises in which the tattooist conducts such practice. See N.Y. Public Health Law 460
• Tattooist: shall mean any person who applies a tattoo to the body of any other person. See N.Y. Public Health Law 460
• Teachers: shall mean all full-time members of the teaching and supervisory staff of each school district of the state, including, if employed in such district, the superintendent of schools, associate, district or other superintendents, members of the board of examiners, directors, inspectors, supervisors, principals, administrative assistants, first assistants, teachers, school psychologists, social workers in a city having a population of over one million, lecturers and special instructors, except employees holding the positions enumerated in subdivisions one and two of section thirty-one hundred six of this article. See N.Y. Education Law 3101
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
• Wholesaler: means any person, company, corporation or other entity that sells or distributes drugs and covered drugs for resale to an entity in the state other than a consumer. See N.Y. Public Health Law 290
• Year of service: shall mean the number of years which a teacher has served in the school district in which he is employed including the year for which a determination for salary purposes is made. See N.Y. Education Law 3101