NY Veh & Traf L § 2101 (2021)
2021 New York Laws VAT - Vehicle and Traffic Title 10 - Uniform Vehicle Certificate of Title Act Article 46 - Uniform Vehicle Certificate of Title Act 2101 - Definitions.

§ 2101. Definitions.  Except  when  the context otherwise requires, as used in this article:  (a) "Dealer" means a person registered as a dealer under section  four hundred fifteen or twenty-two hundred fifty-seven of this chapter.  (b)  "Commissioner"  includes  the  office  and a branch office of the commissioner and, when authorized to receive a document or fee as  agent of the commissioner, the clerk of a county.  (c)  "Identifying  number" means the numbers, and letters if any, on a vehicle designated by the commissioner for the  purpose  of  identifying the vehicle.  (d)  "Implement  of  husbandry"  means  a vehicle designed and adapted exclusively  for  agricultural,  horticultural  or   livestock   raising operations  or  for lifting or carrying an implement of husbandry and in either case not subject to registration if used upon the highways.  (e) "Lienholder" means a person  holding  a  security  interest  in  a vehicle.  (f)  To  "mail"  means  to  deposit in the United States mail properly addressed and with postage prepaid.  (g) "Owner" means a  person,  other  than  a  lienholder,  having  the property  in  or title to a vehicle. The term includes a person entitled to the use and possession of a vehicle subject to a security interest in another person, but excludes a lessee under  a  lease  not  intended  as security.  (h) "Person" means a natural person, firm, co-partnership, association or corporation.  (i) "Pole trailer" means a vehicle without motive power designed to be drawn  by another vehicle and attached to the towing vehicle by means of a reach, or pole, or by being boomed or otherwise secured to the  towing vehicle, and ordinarily used for transporting long or irregularly shaped loads  such  as  logs,  poles,  pipes,  or  structural  members capable, generally, of sustaining themselves  as  beams  between  the  supporting connections.  (j)  "Security  agreement" means a written agreement which reserves or creates a security interest.  (k) "Security interest" means an interest in  a  vehicle  reserved  or created  by  agreement  and  which  secures payment or performance of an obligation. The term includes the interest of a  lessor  under  a  lease intended  as security.   The term also includes an interest in a vehicle pursuant to a lien arising under section two hundred eleven of the  lien law  and  section  one  hundred  eleven-u of the social services law.  A security interest is "perfected" when it is valid against third  parties generally, subject only to specific statutory exceptions.  (l)  "Special  mobile  equipment" means a vehicle not designed for the transportation  of  persons  or  property  upon  a  highway   and   only incidentally operated or moved over a highway, which if registered would be  registered  pursuant  to  schedule F of subdivision seven of section four hundred one of this chapter.  (m) "State" means a state,  territory  or  possession  of  the  United States,  the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a province of the Dominion of Canada.  (n) "Vehicle" means a  vehicle  as  defined  in  section  one  hundred fifty-nine of this chapter except that it shall not include a device for which  a  registration  is  denied pursuant to section four hundred-a of this chapter and, except with respect to section twenty-one hundred  two of  this  article,  shall  also  mean  a  vessel  as  defined in section twenty-two hundred fifty of this chapter.  Unless  otherwise  specified, "vehicle" also means a "mobile home" or a "manufactured home" as defined in section one hundred twenty-two-c of this chapter.