Terms Used In New York Laws > Vehicle and Traffic > Title 12 - Effect of and Short Title of Chapter; Saving Clauses; Laws Repealed; Time to Take Effect

• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• authorizing agent: shall mean the person with the right to control the disposition of the decedent pursuant to § 4201 of the public health law. See N.Y. Not-for-Profit Corporation Law 1502
• board: shall mean the board of directors of a land bank;
  
  (b) "land bank" shall mean a land bank established as a charitable not-for-profit corporation under this chapter and in accordance with the provisions of this article and pursuant to this article;
  
  (c) "foreclosing governmental unit" shall mean "tax district" as defined in subdivision six of § 1102 of the real property tax law;
  
  (d) "municipality" shall mean a city, village, town or county other than a county located wholly within a city;
  
  (e) "school district" shall mean a school district as defined under the education law; and
  
  (f) "real property" shall mean lands, lands under water, structures and any and all easements, air rights, franchises and incorporeal hereditaments and every estate and right therein, legal and equitable, including terms for years and liens by way of judgment, mortgage or otherwise, and any and all fixtures and improvements located thereon. See N.Y. Not-for-Profit Corporation Law 1602
• casket: means a rigid container that is designed for the encasement of human remains and customarily ornamented and lined with fabric. See N.Y. Not-for-Profit Corporation Law 1502
• cemetery board: means the cemetery board in the division of cemeteries in the department of state. See N.Y. Not-for-Profit Corporation Law 1502
• cemetery corporation: means any corporation formed under a general or special law for the disposal or burial of deceased human beings, by cremation, natural organic reduction or in a grave, mausoleum, vault, columbarium or other receptacle but does not include a family cemetery corporation or a private cemetery corporation. See N.Y. Not-for-Profit Corporation Law 1502
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• 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.
• cremains: means ashes and other residue recovered after the completion of cremation, which may include residue of foreign matter that may have been cremated with the human remains. See N.Y. Not-for-Profit Corporation Law 1502
• cremation: means the technical process, using heat and flame, that reduces human remains to ashes and other residue. See N.Y. Not-for-Profit Corporation Law 1502
• crematory: means a facility or portion of a building in which the remains of deceased human beings are processed by cremation. See N.Y. Not-for-Profit Corporation Law 1502
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• 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.
• external wrappings: means a nonmetal receptacle or enclosure, without ornamentation or a fixed interior lining, which is designed for the encasement of human remains and which is made of cardboard, pressed wood, composite materials (with or without an outside covering), or pouches of canvas or other material. See N.Y. Not-for-Profit Corporation Law 1502
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• interment: means the permanent disposition of human remains by inurnment, entombment or ground burial. See N.Y. Not-for-Profit Corporation Law 1502
• Judgement: The official decision of a court finally determining the respective rights and claims of the parties to a suit.
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• monuments: means a memorial erected in a cemetery on a lot, plot or part thereof, except private mausoleums. See N.Y. Not-for-Profit Corporation Law 1502
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• natural organic reduction: means the contained, accelerated conversion of human remains to soil. See N.Y. Not-for-Profit Corporation Law 1502
• natural organic reduction facility: means a structure, room, or other space in a building or real property where natural organic reduction of a human body occurs. See N.Y. Not-for-Profit Corporation Law 1502
• nonsectarian burial society: means a corporation or unincorporated association or society having among its activities or its former activities the provision of burial benefits for its members and not supervised or controlled by a religious corporation. See N.Y. Not-for-Profit Corporation Law 1502
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• owner of a lot: means any person having a lawful title to the use of a niche, crypt, lot, plot or part thereof, in a cemetery, mausoleum or columbarium. See N.Y. Not-for-Profit Corporation Law 1502
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• religious burial society: means a corporation or unincorporated association or society having among its activities or its former activities the provision of burial benefits for its members and supervised or controlled by a religious corporation. See N.Y. Not-for-Profit Corporation Law 1502
• temporary storage facility: means an area that (i) is designated for the retention of human remains prior to cremation or natural organic reduction; (ii) complies with all applicable public health laws, (iii) preserves the health and safety of the crematory or natural organic reduction facility personnel; and (iv) is secure from access by anyone other than authorized persons. See N.Y. Not-for-Profit Corporation Law 1502