Terms Used In New York Laws > Environmental Conservation > Article 45 - State Nature and Historical Preserve Trust

• 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
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• 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.
• 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}
• Executive officer: shall mean :
  
  (a) In the case of a county, the county executive unless there is none, in which case it shall mean the county manager if there is one, or the chairman of the county legislative body if there is neither a county executive nor county manager. See N.Y. Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Law 21.05
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Highway: shall mean the entire width between the boundary lines of any way or place when any part thereof is open to the use of the public, as a matter of right, for the purpose of vehicular traffic. See N.Y. Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Law 21.05
• 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.
• 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.
• Office: means the state office of parks, recreation and historic preservation and those facilities including historic sites as defined in section 1. See N.Y. Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Law 19.13
• Operate: shall mean to ride in or on, other than as a passenger, or use or control the operation of a snowmobile in any manner, whether or not said snowmobile is under way. See N.Y. Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Law 21.05
• Owner: shall mean any person having title to a snowmobile. See N.Y. Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Law 21.05
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Property: means any inanimate object, document or tangible object under the office's care which has intrinsic historic, artistic, scientific, or cultural value. See N.Y. Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Law 19.13
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Register: shall mean the act of assigning a registration number to a snowmobile. See N.Y. Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Law 21.05
• Roadway: shall mean that portion of a highway improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the shoulder. See N.Y. Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Law 21.05
• 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.
• Shoulder: shall mean that portion of a highway which lies outside the paved or unpaved roadway immediately adjacent to the portion of the roadway which may be used by motor vehicles. See N.Y. Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Law 21.05
• Snowmobile: shall mean a self-propelled vehicle equipped with a motor, originally manufactured and designed for travel on snow or ice, steered by skis or runners and supported in whole or in part by one or more skis, belts or tracked cleats. See N.Y. Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Law 21.05
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.