Terms Used In New York Laws > Executive > Article 6-D - Community Services Block Grant Program

• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: shall mean the department of state. See N.Y. Executive Law 159-E
• Eligible entity: shall mean any organization
  
  (a) officially designated as a community action agency or a community action program under the provisions of section two hundred ten of the economic opportunity act of 1964 for fiscal year 1981, unless such community action agency or a community action program lost its designation under section two hundred ten of such act as a result of a failure to comply with the provisions of such act; or
  
  (b) designated by the process described in section one hundred fifty-nine-m of this article (including an organization serving migrant or seasonal farmworkers that is so described or designated). See N.Y. Executive Law 159-E
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• 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.
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• 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.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• real property: as used in this title is defined to include lands, structures, franchises and interests in land, including lands under water and riparian rights, and any and all other things and rights usually included within the said term, and includes also any and all interests in such property less than full title, such as easements, rights of way, uses, leases, licenses and all other incorporeal hereditaments and every estate, interest or right, legal or equitable, including terms for years and liens thereon by way of judgments, mortgages or otherwise, and also all claims for damages for such real estate. See N.Y. Public Authorities Law 1007
• 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.
• Secretary: shall mean the secretary of state. See N.Y. Executive Law 159-E
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• tribal organizations: shall mean those tribes, bands or other organized groups of Indians recognized in the state or considered by the federal secretary of the interior to be an Indian tribe or an Indian organization for any purpose. See N.Y. Executive Law 159-E
• Tripartite board: shall mean
  
  (a) the governing board of a private nonprofit entity selected by the entity and composed so as to assure that
  
  (1) one-third of the members of the board are elected public officials, holding office on the date of selection, or their representatives, except that if the number of such elected officials reasonably available and willing to serve on the board is less than one-third of the membership of the board, membership on the board of appointive public officials or their representatives may be counted in meeting such one-third requirement;
  
  (2) (A) not fewer than one-third of the members are persons chosen in accordance with democratic selection procedures adequate to assure that these members are representative of low-income individuals and families in the neighborhood served; and
  
  (B) each representative of low-income individuals and families selected to represent a specific neighborhood within a community under clause (A) of this subparagraph resides in the neighborhood represented by the member; and
  
  (3) the remainder of the members are officials or members of business, industry, labor, religious, law enforcement, education, or other major groups and interests in the community served; or
  
  (b) the governing board of a public organization, which shall have members selected by the organization and shall be composed so as to assure that not fewer than one-third of the members are persons chosen in accordance with democratic selection procedures adequate to assure that these members
  
  (1) are representative of low-income individuals and families in the neighborhood served;
  
  (2) reside in the neighborhood served; and
  
  (3) are able to participate actively in the development, planning, implementation, and evaluation of programs funded under this article. See N.Y. Executive Law 159-E