Terms Used In New York Laws > Civil Rights > Article 4-B - Rights of Persons With a Disability Accompanied By Guide Dogs, Hearing Dogs or Service Dogs

• Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
• 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.
• 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}
• 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.
• joint indebtedness: means indebtedness contracted for or in relation to a joint service or a joint water, sewage or drainage project and for which the joint faith and credit of the municipal corporations or municipalities would be pledged for the payment thereof. See N.Y. Local Finance Law 15.00
• joint service: means a municipal facility, service, activity or undertaking described in section one of article eight of the constitution, but shall not include any object or purpose the indebtedness for which would be subject to the limitations of paragraph a of section 150. See N.Y. Local Finance Law 15.00
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• municipal corporation: means a county outside the city of New York, a city, a town, a village, or a school district. See N.Y. Local Finance Law 15.00
• municipality: means a county outside the city of New York, a city, a town or a village. See N.Y. Local Finance Law 15.00
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• several indebtedness: means indebtedness contracted for or in relation to a joint service or a joint water, sewage or drainage project and for which the faith and credit of a single municipal corporation or municipality would be pledged for the payment thereof. See N.Y. Local Finance Law 15.00