Terms Used In New York Laws > Military > Article 7 > Part 3 - Non-judicial Punishment

• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• General village election: means the annual or biennial election for village officers. See N.Y. Election Law 15-102
• Organized militia: means the organized militia, the composition of which is stated in section two of this chapter;
  
  (2) "Officer" means a commissioned officer including a commissioned warrant officer;
  
  (3) "Superior officer" means an officer superior in rank or command;
  
  (4) "Enlisted person" means any person who is serving in an enlisted grade in any force of the organized militia;
  
  (5) "Active state duty" means full time military duty in the active service of the state under an order of the governor issued pursuant to sections six or seven of this chapter and while going to and returning from such duty;
  
  (6) "Duty status other than active state duty" means any one of the types of duty described in section forty-six of this chapter and while going to and returning from such duty;
  
  (7) "Military court" means a court-martial, a court of inquiry, a provost court;
  
  (8) "Military judge" means an official of a general court-martial detailed in accordance with section 130. See N.Y. Military Law 130.1
• Publish: means that any notice or resolution required to be published by a village shall be so printed within the time required in the law requring publication in the official newspaper of the village, or if none, one of general circulation within the village. See N.Y. Election Law 15-102
• Special village election: means any election of village officers, other than, the general village election. See N.Y. Election Law 15-102
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Village election: means and includes both general and special village elections for officers. See N.Y. Election Law 15-102