NY Gen Mun L § 810 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 18 - Conflicts of Interest of Municipal Officers and Employees 810 - Additional Definitions.

§  810.  Additional  definitions.  As  used  in sections eight hundred eleven and eight hundred twelve of this article:   1. The term "political subdivision" shall mean a county, city, town or village having a population of fifty thousand or more and shall  include a city with a population of one million or more.   2. The term "local elected official" shall mean an elected official of the  political  subdivision,  except  judges  or justices of the unified court system.   3. The term "local officer or employee" shall mean  the  heads  (other than  local  elected  officials)  of  any  agency, department, division, council, board, commission, or bureau of  a  political  subdivision  and their  deputies  and  assistants, and the officers and employees of such agencies,  departments,  divisions,  boards,  bureaus,  commissions   or councils who hold policy-making positions, as annually determined by the appointing  authority  and set forth in a written instrument which shall be filed with the appropriate body during the month of February;  except that  the  term  "local  officer  or  employee"  shall not mean a judge, justice, officer or employee  of  the  unified  court  system.  Members, officers,  and  employees  of  each  industrial  development  agency and authority  established  by  this  chapter  or  created  by  the   public authorities  law  shall  be  deemed officers or employees of the county, city, village, or town for whose benefit such  agency  or  authority  is established or created.   4.  The  term  "state  agency"  shall  mean  any  state department, or division, board, commission, or bureau  of  any  state  department,  any public  benefit corporation, public authority or commission at least one of whose members is appointed by the governor, or the  state  university of  New  York  or  the  city university of New York, including all their constituent  units  except  community  colleges  and   the   independent institutions  operating  statutory or contract colleges on behalf of the state.   5. The term "spouse" shall mean the husband or wife of  the  reporting individual   unless   living  separate  and  apart  from  the  reporting individual with the intention of terminating the marriage  or  providing for permanent separation or unless separated pursuant to: (a) a judicial order,   decree  or  judgment,  or  (b)  a  legally  binding  separation agreement.   6. The term "local political party official" shall mean:  (a) any chairman of a county committee  elected  pursuant  to  section 2-112  of  the  election  law,  or  his  or her successor in office, who received compensation or expenses, or both, from  constituted  committee or  political  committee  funds,  or  both,  during the reporting period aggregating thirty thousand dollars or more;  (b) that person (usually designated by the rules of a county committee as the "county leader" or "chairman  of  the  executive  committee")  by whatever  title  designated,  who  pursuant  to  the  rules  of a county committee or in actual practice, possesses or performs any or all of the following  duties  or  roles,  provided  that   such   person   received compensation  or  expenses,  or  both,  from  constituted  committee  or political  committee  funds,  or  both,  during  the  reporting   period aggregating thirty thousand dollars or more:  (i)  the  principal political, executive and administrative officer of the county committee;  (ii) the power of general management over the affairs  of  the  county committee;  (iii)  the  power to exercise the powers of the chairman of the county committee as provided for in the rules of the county committee;  (iv) the power to preside at all  meetings  of  the  county  executive committee,  if  such  a  committee is created by the rules of the county committee or exists de facto, or any other committee or subcommittee  of the  county  committee  vested by such rules with or having de facto the power  of general management over the affairs of the county committee at times when the county committee is not in actual session;  (v) the power to call a meeting of the  county  committee  or  of  any committee  or  subcommittee  vested  with  the rights, powers, duties or privileges of the county committee pursuant to the rules of  the  county committee, for the purpose of filling an office at a special election in accordance  with  section  6-114 of the election law, for the purpose of filling a vacancy in accordance with section 6-116 of such  law  or  for the  purpose  of  filling a vacancy or vacancies in the county committee which exist by reason of an increase in the number of election districts within the county occasioned by a change of the  boundaries  of  one  or more  election  districts,  taking  effect  after  the  election  of its members, or for the  purpose  of  determining  the  districts  that  the elected  members  shall  represent until the next election at which such members of such committee are elected; provided,  however,  that  in  no event  shall  such  power  encompass  the  power  of a chairperson of an assembly district committee or other district committee smaller  than  a county  and  created  by  the  rules  of the county committee, to call a meeting of such district committee for such purpose;  (vi) the power to direct the treasurer of the party to expend funds of the county committee; or  (vii) the power to procure from one  or  more  bank  accounts  of  the county  committee  the  necessary  funds  to  defray the expenses of the county committee; and  (c) the city, town or village chairman or leader of a  city,  town  or village  committee  of  a  party as the term party is defined in section 1-104 of the election law, but only with respect  to  a  city,  town  or village  having a population of fifty thousand or more, and only if such chairman or leader received compensation  or  expenses,  or  both,  from constituted  committee or political committee funds, or both, during the reporting period aggregating thirty thousand dollars or more.  The  term chairman  or  leader is intended to refer to the person who performs the functions and duties of the chief official of a party in the city,  town or village by whatever title designated.   The  terms  "constituted committee" and "political committee", as used in this subdivision six, shall have the same meanings as those contained in section 14-100 of the election law.   7. The term "relative" shall mean  such  individual's  spouse,  child, stepchild,  stepparent,  or any person who is a direct descendant of the grandparents  of  the  reporting  individual   or   of   the   reporting individual's spouse.   8.  The  term  "unemancipated  child"  shall  mean  any son, daughter, stepson or stepdaughter who is under age eighteen, unmarried and  living in the household of the reporting individual.   9.  The term "appropriate body" or "appropriate bodies" shall mean the board of ethics for the political subdivision.   10. The term "regulatory  agency"  shall  have  the  same  meaning  as ascribed to such term by subdivision one of section seventy-three of the public officers law.   11.  The  term  "ministerial  matter"  shall  have the same meaning as ascribed to such term by subdivision one of section seventy-three of the public officers law.   12. The term "local agency" shall mean:  (a) any county, city,  town,  village,  school  district  or  district corporation,  or  any agency, department, division, board, commission or bureau thereof; and  (b) any public benefit corporation or public authority not included in the definition of a state agency.