NY Veh & Traf L § 509-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws VAT - Vehicle and Traffic Title 5 - Drivers' Licenses Article 19-A - Special Requirements for Bus Drivers 509-A - Definitions.

§ 509-a. Definitions.  As used in this article the term: (1) bus shall mean every motor vehicle, owned, leased, rented or otherwise  controlled by  a motor carrier, which (a) is a school bus as defined in section one hundred forty-two of this chapter or has a seating capacity of more than ten adult passengers in addition to the driver and which is used for the transportation of persons under the age of twenty-one or persons of  any age  who  are  mentally or physically disabled to a place of vocational, academic or religious instruction or religious service including nursery schools, day care centers and camps, (b) is required to obtain  approval to operate in the state as a common or contract carrier of passengers by motor vehicle from the commissioner of transportation, or the interstate commerce  commission,  (c) is regulated as a bus line by a city that has adopted an ordinance, local law or charter to regulate or franchise  bus line  operations  pursuant  to subdivision four of section eighty of the transportation law, (d) is regulated as a van service  or  other  common carrier  of  passengers  by motor vehicle covered under article seven of the transportation law by a city with a population of over  one  million pursuant  to  an  ordinance or local law adopted pursuant to subdivision five of section eighty of the transportation law or (e) is operated by a transit authority or municipality and is used to transport  persons  for hire. Provided, however, that bus shall not mean an authorized emergency vehicle  operated in the course of an emergency, or a motor vehicle used in the transportation of agricultural workers to and from their place of employment;  (2) driver or bus  driver  shall  mean  every  person:  (i)  who  is self-employed  and  drives  a  bus  for  hire  or profit; or (ii) who is employed by a motor carrier and operates a bus owned, leased  or  rented by  such  employer;  or  (iii)  who as a volunteer drives a bus which is owned, leased or rented by  a  motor  carrier.  Provided,  however,  bus driver   shall  not  include  those  persons  who  are  engaged  in  the maintenance, repair or garaging of such buses and in the course of their duties must incidentally drive a bus without passengers, or  who,  as  a volunteer,  drive  a  bus with passengers for less than thirty days each year;  (3) motor carrier shall mean any person, corporation, municipality, or entity, public or private, who directs one or more bus drivers  and  who operates  a  bus  wholly within or partly within and partly without this state in connection with the business  of  transporting  passengers  for hire  or in the operation or administration of any business, or place of vocational, academic or religious instruction or religious  service  for persons  under  the  age  of  twenty-one  or  persons of any age who are mentally disabled including nursery schools, day care centers and camps, or public  agency,  except  such  out-of-state  public  or  governmental operators who may be exempted from the provisions of this article by the commissioner through regulation promulgated by the commissioner;  (4)  intoxicating  liquor  shall  mean  and include, alcohol, spirits, liquor, wine, beer and cider having alcoholic content;  (5) drug shall mean  any  substance  listed  in  section  thirty-three hundred  six of the public health law not dispensed or consumed pursuant to a lawful prescription;  (6) controlled substance shall mean any substance  listed  in  section thirty-three  hundred  six  of  the  public  health law not dispensed or consumed pursuant to lawful prescription.  (7) accident shall include any accident with another  vehicle,  object or  person, which occurs in this state or elsewhere, in which any person is killed or injured, or in which damage to  the  property  of  any  one person,  including  the operator, in excess of one thousand five hundred dollars is sustained, or in which damage in excess of two thousand  five  hundred  dollars  is  sustained  to  any  bus  as defined in section one hundred four of this chapter; provided however that accidents  occurring outside this state shall not be recorded on the driver's license record.