Terms Used In New York Laws > Labor > Article 33 - Elevators and Other Conveyances; Licensing

• Accessibility lift: means elevators or conveyances that are intended for transportation of persons with disabilities, such as platform lifts and stairway chairlifts, including equipment covered by the provisions of ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) A18. See N.Y. Labor Law 951
• Accessibility lift work: means elevator and conveyance work that is restricted to accessibility lifts. See N.Y. Labor Law 951
• Alteration: means any change to any conveyance or component other than maintenance, repair, or replacement, but shall not include the professional services of engineering or architecture as defined in sections seventy-two hundred one and seventy-three hundred one of the education law. See N.Y. Labor Law 951
• Board: means the New York state elevator safety and standards advisory board established by section nine hundred fifty-six of this article. See N.Y. Labor Law 951
• Business: means any corporation, or instrumentality of a corporation, self-employed person, company, unincorporated association, firm, partnership, limited liability company, corporation, or any other entity, or any owner or operator of any of the foregoing entities. See N.Y. Labor Law 951
• Business license: means a license that authorizes the holder to engage in the business of elevator and conveyance work, or elevator and conveyance inspections. See N.Y. Labor Law 951
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Construction: means the act or process of constructing any conveyance, and includes vertically constructing or connecting any conveyance or part or system thereof. See N.Y. Labor Law 951
• 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.
• Design: means the act or process of planning the repair, alteration, or construction of any conveyance, but shall not include the professional services of engineering or architecture as defined in sections seventy-two hundred one and seventy-three hundred one of the education law. See N.Y. Labor Law 951
• Elevator: means a hoisting and lowering mechanism, equipped with a car, that moves within guides and serves two or more landings. See N.Y. Labor Law 951
• Elevator and conveyance inspections: means performing the inspection or any related testing of any elevator or conveyance, but does not include government regulatory inspections performed by an authority having jurisdiction to enforce any applicable building codes and any elevator codes. See N.Y. Labor Law 951
• Elevator and conveyance work: means performing activities that include the design, construction, installation, testing, maintenance, alteration, service, and repair of any elevator or conveyance. See N.Y. Labor Law 951
• Elevator contractor: means any business that engages in elevator and conveyance work. See N.Y. Labor Law 951
• Elevator inspection contractor: means any business that performs elevator and conveyance inspections. See N.Y. Labor Law 951
• Elevator inspector: means any person who performs elevator and conveyance inspections, whether individually or through an elevator inspection contractor or public employer. See N.Y. Labor Law 951
• Elevator mechanic: means any person who performs elevator and conveyance work. See N.Y. Labor Law 951
• Elevator or conveyance: means any equipment identified in paragraphs (a) through (d) of subdivision one of section nine hundred fifty of this article, including any elevator, dumbwaiter, escalator, moving sidewalk, platform lifts, non-residential stairway chairlifts and automated people movers. See N.Y. Labor Law 951
• Escalator: means a power-driven, inclined, continuous stairway used for raising or lowering passengers. See N.Y. Labor Law 951
• 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.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Inspection: means a critical examination, observation, or evaluation of quality and code compliance of any conveyance. See N.Y. Labor Law 951
• Installation: means to place or fix any conveyance or component in position for operation. See N.Y. Labor Law 951
• Instrument: means a negotiable instrument. See N.Y. Uniform Commercial Code 3-102
• Issue: means the first delivery of an instrument to a holder
  
  or a remitter. See N.Y. Uniform Commercial Code 3-102
• 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.
• License: means a credential duly issued by the commissioner authorizing the holder to engage a business or an occupation whose scope includes accessibility lift work, or elevator and conveyance work, or elevator and conveyance inspections. See N.Y. Labor Law 951
• Maintenance: means a process of routine examination, lubrication, cleaning, and adjustment of any conveyance or components for the purpose of ensuring performance in accordance with any applicable code requirements. See N.Y. Labor Law 951
• Occupational license: means a license that authorizes the holder to engage in accessibility lift work, or elevator and conveyance work or elevator and conveyance inspections. See N.Y. Labor Law 951
• order: is a direction to pay and must be more than an
  
  authorization or request. See N.Y. Uniform Commercial Code 3-102
• 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.
• Person: means any natural person. See N.Y. Labor Law 951
• Personnel and material hoists: means rack and pinion hoists, alimaks, and machines of a similar nature used for the hoisting of construction material, equipment and personnel, or the removal of debris, all during the construction, renovation, and/or demolition phase of any construction project whether an inside or outside hoist. See N.Y. Labor Law 951
• Private residence: means a separate dwelling or a separate apartment in a multiple dwelling, which is occupied by members of a single family unit. See N.Y. Labor Law 951
• promise: is a n undertaking to pay and must be more than an
  
  acknowledgment of an obligation. See N.Y. Uniform Commercial Code 3-102
• Repair: means reconditioning or renewal of any elevator or conveyance or component necessary to keep such equipment in compliance with applicable code requirements. See N.Y. Labor Law 951
• Successor: means an entity engaged in work substantially similar to that of the predecessor, where there is substantial continuity of operation with that of the predecessor. See N.Y. Labor Law 951
• Testing: means a process or trial of operation of any conveyance. See N.Y. Labor Law 951
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.