Terms Used In New York Laws > Energy > Article 18 - Temporary Nuclear Waste Repositories

• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• Application: means an application for a certificate. See N.Y. Energy Law 18-101
• Board: means the state board on temporary nuclear waste repository siting established by section 18-105 of this article. See N.Y. Energy Law 18-101
• Certificate: means a temporary nuclear waste repository siting certificate issued pursuant to the provisions of this article. See N.Y. Energy Law 18-101
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of environmental conservation. See N.Y. Energy Law 18-101
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• 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.
• 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 or village. See N.Y. Energy Law 18-101
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Organized militia: means the organized militia, the composition of which is stated in section two of this chapter;
  
  (2) "Officer" means a commissioned officer including a commissioned warrant officer;
  
  (3) "Superior officer" means an officer superior in rank or command;
  
  (4) "Enlisted person" means any person who is serving in an enlisted grade in any force of the organized militia;
  
  (5) "Active state duty" means full time military duty in the active service of the state under an order of the governor issued pursuant to sections six or seven of this chapter and while going to and returning from such duty;
  
  (6) "Duty status other than active state duty" means any one of the types of duty described in section forty-six of this chapter and while going to and returning from such duty;
  
  (7) "Military court" means a court-martial, a court of inquiry, a provost court;
  
  (8) "Military judge" means an official of a general court-martial detailed in accordance with section 130. See N.Y. Military Law 130.1
• 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 individual, partnership, association, corporation, public benefit corporation, municipality, political subdivision, governmental agency (including any agency of the federal government), trust, estate, or other legal entity. See N.Y. Energy Law 18-101
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Temporary nuclear waste repository: means any facility where spent fuel rods from nuclear reactors are received on or after the effective date of this article and are stored pending further or final disposal, except a facility located in the immediate vicinity of a nuclear power generating facility or an operating nuclear reactor which is used to store, on an interim or temporary basis, spent nuclear fuel from nuclear power generating facilities or operating nuclear reactors located in this state. See N.Y. Energy Law 18-101
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.