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• Advisory committee: means the New York invasive species advisory committee established by section 9-1707 of this title. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 9-1703
• 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
• Attorney-at-law: A person who is legally qualified and licensed to practice law, and to represent and act for clients in legal proceedings.
• Control: means , as appropriate, eradicating, suppressing, reducing, or managing invasive species populations, preventing spread of invasive species from areas where they are present, and taking steps such as restoration of native species and habitats to reduce the effects of invasive species and to prevent further invasions. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 9-1703
• Council: means the New York invasive species council established by section 9-1705 of this title. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 9-1703
• GIS: means geographic information system. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 9-1703
• Introduction: means the intentional or unintentional escape, release, dissemination, or placement of a species into an ecosystem as a result of human activity. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 9-1703
• Invasive species: means a species that is:
  
  (a) nonnative to the ecosystem under consideration; and
  
  (b) whose introduction causes or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 9-1703
• Native species: means , with respect to a particular ecosystem, a species that, other than as a result of an introduction, historically occurred or currently occurs in that ecosystem. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 9-1703
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Person: means any individual, firm, co-partnership, association or corporation, other than the state or a public corporation, as the latter is defined in subdivision 1 of § 3 of the General Corporation Law. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 9-0101
• Plan: means the plan developed pursuant to section 9-1705 of this title. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 9-1703
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Species: means a group of organisms all of which have a high degree of physical and genetic similarity, generally interbreed only among themselves, and show persistent differences from members of allied groups of organisms. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 9-1703