Terms Used In New York Laws > Environmental Conservation > Article 55 - Sole Source Aquifer Protection

• Chief elected official: shall mean the chief executive officer of a municipality, or if there is none, any other officer possessing similar powers and duties. See N.Y. Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Law 39.03
• commission: shall mean the Niagara river greenway commission created pursuant to this article. See N.Y. Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Law 39.03
• 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.
• 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.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• 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.
• greenway: shall mean a linear system of state and local parks and conservation areas linked by a network of multi use trails within the greenway area established by an approved plan of the commission as provided for in this article. See N.Y. Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Law 39.03
• 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.
• Municipality: means a county, city, town, village or local public benefit corporation located adjacent to the Niagara river. See N.Y. Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Law 39.03
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Plan: shall mean the comprehensive management plan established pursuant to section 55-0115 of this article. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 55-0107
• plan: shall mean a document prepared in conformance with the provisions of section 35. See N.Y. Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Law 31.01
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Recharge: shall mean the downward movement of water to the water table through the soil overlying an aquifer. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 55-0107
• Special groundwater protection area: shall mean recharge watershed area within a designated sole source area contained within counties having a population of one million or more which is particularly important for the maintenance of large volumes of high quality groundwater for long periods of time. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 55-0107
• State agency: shall mean any state department, agency, board or commission of the state, or a public benefit corporation or public authority at least one of whose members is appointed by the governor. See N.Y. Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Law 31.01
• System: means the New York system of heritage areas established pursuant to section 35. See N.Y. Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Law 31.01
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Watershed: shall mean an area where water drains into a specific basin or reservoir, or, for groundwater, a region where water is abundantly recharged to the subsurface groundwater reservoir. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 55-0107