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NY Gen Const L § 25-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 25-A - Public Holiday, Saturday or Sunday in Statutes; Extension of Time Where Performance of Act Is Due on Saturday, Sunday or Public Holiday.

§  25-a.  Public holiday, Saturday or Sunday in statutes; extension of   time where performance of act is  due  on  Saturday,  Sunday  or  public   holiday. 1. When any period of time, computed from a certain day, within   which or after which or before which an act is authorized or required to   be done, ends on a Saturday, Sunday or a public holiday, such act may be   done  on  the  next  succeeding business day and if the period ends at a   specified hour, such act may be done at or before the same hour of  such   next  succeeding  business  day,  except  that  where  a  period of time   specified by contract ends on a Saturday, Sunday or  a  public  holiday,   the  extension of such period is governed by section twenty-five of this   chapter.2. Where time is extended by virtue of the provisions of this section,   such extended time shall not be included in the computation of interest,   except that when the period is specified as a  number  of  months,  such   extended time shall be included in the computation of interest.
NY Gen Const L § 25-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 25-B - Injury to Property.

§ 25-b. Injury to property. "Injury to property" is an actionable act,   whereby the estate of another is lessened, other than a personal injury,   or the breach of a contract.
NY Gen Const L § 25-C (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 25-C - Investment in Bond and Mortgage or Note and Mortgage.

§  25-c.  Investment  in  bond and mortgage or note and mortgage.  The   term bond and mortgage or the term note and mortgage  as  heretofore  or   hereafter  used in any statute which prescribes or authorizes investment   therein, with or without a specified ratio of  real  property  security,   shall  be deemed to include a share or part of a bond and mortgage or of   a note and mortgage, as the case may be, prior  in  lien  to  all  other   shares  and  parts thereof and, for all purposes in connection with such   an investment in a share or part, any specified ratio of  real  property   security  shall  be  determined  on  the basis of the investment in such   share or part.
NY Gen Const L § 26 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 26 - Judge.

§  26.  Judge.  The  term  "judge"  includes  every  judicial  officer   authorized, alone or with others, to hold or preside  over  a  court  of   record.  It  also includes a justice, surrogate, recorder, Town Justice,   Village Justice, City Justice or other judicial  officer  authorized  or   required  to  act  or  prohibited  from acting in or with respect to the   matter or thing referred to in the provision wherein that word is used.
NY Gen Const L § 26-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 26-A - Judgment Creditor.

§  26-a.  Judgment  creditor. "Judgment creditor" signifies the person   who is entitled to collect or otherwise enforce, in  his  own  right,  a   judgment for a sum of money, or directing the payment of a sum of money.
NY Gen Const L § 26-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 26-B - Just Compensation as Including Loss of Mortgage Financing.

§  26-b.  Just  compensation  as including loss of mortgage financing.   Notwithstanding any inconsistent provisions of law, whenever property is   taken pursuant to the  power  of  eminent  domain  (whether  denominated   condemnation,  appropriation or otherwise) just compensation required by   the state constitution shall include an amount sufficient to  compensate   for  the  loss  of existing mortgage financing if such property was used   prior to taking primarily as a residence however, such amount shall  not   exceed  fifteen  thousand dollars. In computing the amount of such loss,   the following shall be considered: (a) the difference  in  the  interest   rate  payable  on the existing mortgage from that prevailing at the date   of taking in the area where the property is  located  for  new  mortgage   loans  on similar types of property to similar borrowers; (b) the length   of time from the  date  of  taking  to  the  maturity  of  the  existing   mortgage,  and (c) the prevailing costs to similar mortgage borrowers on   similar types of property at the date of taking in the  area  where  the   property  is  located of obtaining and closing a new mortgage loan in an   amount equal to the unpaid principal balance of the existing mortgage.
NY Gen Const L § 27 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 27 - Last, Preceding, Next and Following.

§  27. Last, preceding, next and following. A reference to the last or   preceding section, or other provision of a statute, means the section or   other division immediately preceding, and a reference  to  the  next  or   following  section  or  other division of a statute means the section or   other division immediately following.
NY Gen Const L § 28 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 28 - Mental Disability, Mental Illness, Developmental Disability, Addictive Disorder and Addiction Disorder.

§  28.  Mental  disability,  mental illness, developmental disability,   addictive disorder and addiction disorder. The terms mental  disability,   mental   illness,   developmental  disability,  addictive  disorder  and   addiction disorder shall have the  same  meaning  as  they  are  defined   pursuant to section 1.03 of the mental hygiene law.
NY Gen Const L § 28-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 28-A - Mandate.

§  28-a.  Mandate. "Mandate" includes a writ, process or other written   direction, issued pursuant to law, out of a court, or made  pursuant  to   law,  by  a  court,  a judge or person acting as a judicial officer, and   commanding a court, board or other body, or an officer or other  person,   named or otherwise designated therein, to do or to refrain from doing an   act therein specified.
NY Gen Const L § 28-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 28-B - Magistrate.

§  28-b.  Magistrate.  A  magistrate  is  a judge of any court of this   state.
NY Gen Const L § 28-C (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 28-C - Down's Syndrome.

§  28-c.  Down's  syndrome. 1. On and after the effective date of this   section, the term "mongolism" or "mongoloid" used as a synonym  for  the   genetic  disorder  known as Down's syndrome shall not be utilized in any   statute,  local  law,  ordinance,  charter,  or   rule   or   regulation   promulgated  or  any publication published by the state or any political   subdivision thereof, and the term, Down's syndrome,  shall  be  used  in   place  of  "mongolism"  or  "mongoloid"  when  referring to such genetic   disorder.2. Wherever the term "mongolism" or "mongoloid" appears  in  any  such   statute,  local  law,  ordinance,  charter  or  rule  or  regulation  or   publication enacted, promulgated or published  prior  to  the  effective   date  of  this section such term shall be deemed to refer to the genetic   disorder known as Down's syndrome.3. Whenever  the  term  "mongolism"  or  "mongoloid"  appears  in  any   publication  of the state or any political subdivision thereof published   prior to the effective date of this section which is to  be  republished   on   or   after   January   first,   nineteen  hundred  eighty-one  such   republication shall be made only after such terms are deleted.
NY Gen Const L § 29 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 29 - Men.

§ 29. Men. The term men includes boys.
NY Gen Const L § 30 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 30 - Month, Computation.

§ 30. Month, computation. A number of months after or before a certain   day  shall  be  computed by counting such number of calendar months from   such day, exclusive of the calendar month in which such day occurs,  and   shall  include  the day of the month in the last month so counted having   the same numerical order in days of the month as the day from which  the   computation  is made, unless there be not so many days in the last month   so counted, in which case the period computed shall expire with the last   day of the month so counted.
NY Gen Const L § 31 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 31 - Month in Statute, Contract and Public or Private Instrument.

§ 31. Month in statute, contract and public or private instrument.  In   a  statute,  contract  or public or private instrument, unless otherwise   provided in such contract or instrument or by law, the term month  means   a calendar month and not a lunar month.
NY Gen Const L § 32 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 32 - Municipal Officers.

§  32.  Municipal  officers.  A  reference  to  several  officers of a   municipal corporation holding the same office, or to  a  board  of  such   officers,  shall  be  deemed to refer to the single officer holding such   office, when but one person is chosen to fill such office  in  pursuance   of law.
NY Gen Const L § 33 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 33 - Notice.

§  33.  Notice.  When  a  notice is required to be given to a board or   body, service of such notice upon the clerk or chairman thereof shall be   sufficient.
NY Gen Const L § 33-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 33-A - Notify.

§  33-a.  Notify.  "Notify"  is  used  with  respect  to procuring the   attendance of a juror, is equivalent to the word "summon" as used in the   like connection, in the constitution and laws of the state.
NY Gen Const L § 34 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 34 - Now.

§  34.  Now.  The  term now in any provision of a statute referring to   other laws in force, or to  persons  in  office,  or  to  any  facts  or   circumstances  as  existing,  relates  to  the  laws in force, or to the   person  in  office,  or  to  the  facts   or   circumstances   existing,   respectively, immediately before the taking effect of such provision.
NY Gen Const L § 35 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 35 - Number, Singular and Plural.

§  35.  Number,  singular  and  plural.  Words  in the singular number   include the plural, and in the plural number include the singular.
NY Gen Const L § 36 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 36 - Oath, Affidavit and Swear.

§  36. Oath, affidavit and swear. The terms oath and affidavit include   every mode authorized by law of attesting the truth  of  that  which  is   stated.  The  term  swear  includes  every  mode  authorized  by law for   administering an oath.
NY Gen Const L § 37 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 37 - Person.

§ 37. Person. The term person includes a corporation and a joint-stock   association.    When used to designate a party whose property may be the   subject of any offense, the term person also includes the state, or  any   other  state,  government  or country which may lawfully own property in   the state.
NY Gen Const L § 37-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 37-A - Personal Injury.

§ 37-a. Personal injury. "Personal injury" includes libel, slander and   malicious  prosecution; also an assault, battery, false imprisonment, or   other actionable injury to the person either of  the  plaintiff,  or  of   another.
NY Gen Const L § 37-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 37-B - Population.

§  37-b.  Population.  1. The term population when used in relation to   this state, or a municipality or other subdivision thereof, or a portion   of such a municipality or subdivision, shall, unless otherwise  provided   in  relation to such use, mean population as shown by the latest federal   census published as a final population count by the United States bureau   of the census.2. Unless otherwise specifically provided, the  term  population  when   used  in  relation  to  payments  of aid or assistance by the state to a   municipality or other subdivision thereof shall mean population as shown   by the  latest  federal  census  of  such  municipality  or  subdivision   published as a final population count by the United States bureau of the   census  prior  to the commencement of the state fiscal year during which   such aid or assistance is payable.
NY Gen Const L § 38 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 38 - Property.

§ 38. Property. The term property includes real and personal property.
NY Gen Const L § 39 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 39 - Property, Personal.

§   39.  Property,  personal.  The  term  personal  property  includes   chattels,  money,  things  in  action,  and  all   written   instruments   themselves,  as distinguished from the rights or interests to which they   relate, by which any right, interest, lien or incumbrance in, to or upon   property, or any debt or financial obligation is created,  acknowledged,   evidenced,  transferred,  discharged or defeated, wholly or in part, and   everything, except real property, which may be the subject of ownership.Oil wells and all  fixtures  connected  therewith,  situate  on  lands   leased  for oil purposes and oil interests, and rights held under and by   virtue of any lease or contract or other right or license to operate for   or produce petroleum oil, shall be  deemed  personal  property  for  all   purposes except taxation.
NY Gen Const L § 40 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 40 - Property, Real.

§  40.  Property,  real.  The term real property includes real estate,   lands, tenements and hereditaments, corporeal and incorporeal.
NY Gen Const L § 41 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 41 - Quorum and Majority.

§  41. Quorum and majority. Whenever three or more public officers are   given any power or authority, or three or more persons are charged  with   any  public  duty  to  be performed or exercised by them jointly or as a   board or similar body, a majority of the whole number of such persons or   officers, gathered together in the presence of each other or through the   use of videoconferencing, at a meeting duly held at a time fixed by law,   or by any by-law duly adopted by such board or  body,  or  at  any  duly   adjourned  meeting  of  such  meeting,  or at any meeting duly held upon   reasonable notice to all of them, shall constitute a quorum and not less   than a majority of the whole number may perform and exercise such power,   authority or duty. For the purpose of this provision  the  words  "whole   number"  shall  be  construed  to mean the total number which the board,   commission, body or other group of persons or officers would  have  were   there no vacancies and were none of the persons or officers disqualified   from acting.
NY Gen Const L § 41-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 41-A - Recital in Record of Meeting as Evidence.

§  41-a.  Recital  in  record of meeting as evidence. A recital in any   order, resolution or  other  record  of  any  proceeding  of  a  meeting   referred  to  in section forty-one of this chapter that such meeting had   been held or adjourned as provided in said section, or that it had  been   held  upon  notice  to  the members, as therein provided, is prima facie   evidence thereof.
NY Gen Const L § 42 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 42 - Register of County.

§  42.  Register  of  county.  Any act done in pursuance of law by the   register of a county shall  be  deemed  to  be  a  compliance  with  any   provision  of  law  authorizing  or requiring such act to be done by the   county clerk of such  county,  and  any  instrument  or  writing  filed,   entered or recorded in pursuance of law in the office of a register of a   county,  shall  be  deemed  to be a compliance with any provision of law   authorizing or requiring such paper to be filed, entered or recorded, as   the case may be, in the office of the clerk of  such  county.  The  term   county  clerk  when  used in relation to conveyances of real property or   the filing or recording of instruments which are or may be filed in  the   office  of  the register of a county, shall include the register of each   county in which there is a register.
NY Gen Const L § 43 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 43 - Seal of Court, Public Officer or Corporation.

§ 43. Seal of court, public officer or corporation. A seal of a court,   public  officer  or  corporation  may  be  impressed  directly  upon the   instrument or writing to be sealed, or upon wafer, wax or other adhesive   substance affixed thereto, or upon paper,  or  other  similar  substance   affixed  thereto  by mucilage or other adhesive substance, or may appear   as a facsimile, or be engraved or printed or  reproduced  in  any  other   manner.    A  seal  of  a  corporation  upon  a  corporate bond or other   corporate obligation for the  payment  of  money  may  be  a  facsimile,   engraved or printed.
NY Gen Const L § 44 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 44 - Seal, Private.

§  44.  Seal,  private.  The  private  seal  of a person, other than a   corporation, to any instrument or writing shall consist of a wafer,  wax   or  other  similar  adhesive  substance  affixed thereto, or of paper or   other similar substance affixed thereto, by mucilage or  other  adhesive   substance,  or  of  the word "seal," or the letters "L.S.," opposite the   signature.
NY Gen Const L § 44-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 44-A - Seal on Written Instrument.

§  44-a.  Seal  on  written  instrument. Except as otherwise expressly   provided by statute, the presence or absence of a seal  upon  a  written   instrument   executed   after   August  thirty-first,  nineteen  hundred   forty-one shall be without legal effect.
NY Gen Const L § 45 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 45 - Seal, Private as Corporate Seal.

§  45.  Seal, private as corporate seal. An instrument or writing duly   executed, in the corporate name of a corporation, which shall  not  have   adopted  a  corporate  seal,  by  the proper officers of the corporation   under their private seals, shall be deemed to have been  executed  under   the corporate seal.
NY Gen Const L § 46 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 46 - Signature.

§  46.  Signature. The term signature includes any memorandum, mark or   sign, written, printed, stamped,  photographed,  engraved  or  otherwise   placed  upon  any  instrument  or  writing  with  intent  to  execute or   authenticate such instrument or writing.
NY Gen Const L § 47 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 47 - State.

§  47.  State.  The  term  state, when used generally to include every   state of the United States, includes also every territory of the  United   States and the District of Columbia.
NY Gen Const L § 47-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 47-A - Superintendent of Schools.

§  47-a.  Superintendent  of  schools.  The  term  "superintendent  of   schools" shall mean the chief school officer of a school district  other   than  the  city  school  district of the city of New York or a community   school district therein.  Except for purposes of  section  one  thousand   seven  hundred  eleven  of  the education law, any reference in any law,   ordinance, resolution, rule or regulation, proceeding, process,  notice,   order,  decree,  judgement,  record or other public document or paper to   the terms "district principal", "supervising principal" or "principal of   the district" shall be deemed to mean "superintendent of schools".
NY Gen Const L § 48 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 48 - Tense, Present.

§ 48. Tense, present. Words in the present tense include the future.
NY Gen Const L § 49 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 49 - Territory.

§  49.  Territory.  The  term territory when used generally to include   every territory of the United States,  includes  also  the  District  of   Columbia.
NY Gen Const L § 50 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 50 - Time, Computation.

§  50.  Time,  computation. Time shall continue to be computed in this   state according to the Gregorian or new style. The  first  day  of  each   year  after the year seventeen hundred and fifty-two is the first day of   January, according to such style.
NY Gen Const L § 51 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 51 - Time, Night.

§  51.  Time,  night.  Night  time  includes  the  time from sunset to   sunrise.
NY Gen Const L § 52 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 52 - Time, Standard.

§  52.  Time,  standard. 1. The standard time throughout this state is   that of the seventy-fifth meridian of  longitude  west  from  Greenwich,   except  as hereinafter provided, and all courts and public officers, and   legal and official proceedings, shall be regulated thereby.2. At two o'clock ante meridian on the last Sunday in  April  of  each   year  the standard time throughout this state shall be advanced one hour   from  that  of  the  seventy-fifth  meridian  of  longitude  west   from   Greenwich,  and  the time so advanced shall continue to be standard time   throughout this state until the last Sunday in October of the same year,   when such standard time, as so advanced, shall be retarded  to  that  of   the  seventy-fifth  meridian west from Greenwich; and during such period   in each year all courts and public  officers,  and  legal  and  official   proceedings, shall be regulated in accordance therewith.
NY Gen Const L § 53 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 53 - Time, Use of Standard.

§  53.  Time,  use of standard. Any act required by or in pursuance of   law to be performed at or within a prescribed time, shall  be  performed   according to the standard time.
NY Gen Const L § 53-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 53-A - Trial Juror; Trial Jury.

§  53-a.  Trial  juror; trial jury. The terms "trial juror" and "trial   jury", are respectively equivalent  to  the  terms  "petit  juror",  and   "petit jury", as used in the constitution and laws of the state.
NY Gen Const L § 54 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 54 - Village.

§ 54. Village. The term village means an incorporated village.
NY Gen Const L § 55 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 55 - Women.

§ 55. Women. The term women includes girls.
NY Gen Const L § 56 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCN - General Construction Article 2 - Meaning of Terms 56 - Writing and Written.

§ 56. Writing and written. The terms writing and written include every   legible representation of letters upon a material substance, except when   applied to the signature of an instrument.