2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2-A - Classification of Corporations and Definitions › 66 - Definitions.

§  66.  Definitions.  1.  A  "public corporation" includes a municipal
  corporation, a district corporation, or a public benefit corporation.
2. A "municipal corporation" includes a county,  city,  town,  village
  and school district.
3.  A  "district corporation" includes any territorial division of the
  state, other than  a  municipal  corporation,  heretofore  or  hereafter
  established  by  law  which possesses the power to contract indebtedness
  and levy taxes or benefit assessments upon real estate or to require the
  levy of such taxes or  assessments,  whether  or  not  such  territorial
  division is expressly declared to be a body corporate and politic by the
  statute  creating  or  authorizing  the  creation  of  such  territorial
  division.
4. A "public  benefit  corporation"  is  a  corporation  organized  to
  construct  or  operate  a public improvement wholly or partly within the
  state, the profits from which inure to the  benefit  of  this  or  other
  states, or to the people thereof.
4-a. A "benefit corporation" means a business corporation incorporated
  under article seventeen of the business corporation law and whose status
  as  a benefit corporation has not been terminated as provided in article
  seventeen of the business corporation law.
5. A "religious corporation" is either (a)  a  Religious  Corporations
  Law  corporation  as  defined  in  section  two  of  such  law  or (b) a
  corporation formed under any other general law or by a  special  act  of
  this  state  which  is  organized and operated principally for religious
  purposes.
6.  An  "education  corporation"  is  a  corporation  as  defined   in
  subdivision one of section two hundred sixteen-a of the education law.
7.  A  "not-for-profit  corporation",  if a domestic corporation, is a
  corporation as defined in subparagraph five of paragraph (a) of  section
  one hundred two of the not-for-profit corporation law. A "not-for-profit
  corporation",  if  formed  under  laws  other  than the statutes of this
  state,  is  a  foreign  not-for-profit   corporation   as   defined   in
  subparagraph seven of paragraph (a) of such section.
8.   A  "business  corporation",  if  a  domestic  corporation,  is  a
  corporation as defined in subparagraph four of paragraph (a) of  section
  one   hundred   two   of  the  business  corporation  law.  A  "business
  corporation", if formed under laws  other  than  the  statutes  of  this
  state,  is  a  foreign  business  corporation as defined in subparagraph
  seven of paragraph (a) of such section.
9. A "moneyed corporation" is a corporation to which the  banking  law
  or the insurance law is made applicable by the provisions of such laws.
10.  A  "railroad  corporation" is a corporation to which the railroad
  law is made applicable by a provision of such law.
11. A "transportation corporation"  is  a  corporation  to  which  the
  transportation  corporations  law  is  made applicable by a provision of
  such law.
12.  A  "cooperative  corporation"  is  a  corporation  to  which  the
  cooperative  corporations  law is made applicable by a provision of such
  law.
13. The term "corporation formed other than for profit" includes every
  corporation other than a corporation  formed  for  profit  or  a  public
  corporation.
14. A "domestic corporation" is a corporation incorporated by or under
  the  laws of the state or colony of New York. Every corporation which is
  not a domestic corporation is a foreign corporation, except as  provided
  by  the civil practice law and rules with respect to the construction of
  such law and rules.
15. The term "director", when used in relation to corporations,  means
  any   member  of  the  governing  board  of  such  corporation,  whether
  designated as director, trustee, manager,  governor,  or  by  any  other
  title, designated to manage the affairs of a corporation.
16.  The term "certificate of incorporation" includes (a) the original
  certificate of incorporation or any other  instrument  filed  or  issued
  under any statute to form a domestic or foreign corporation, as amended,
  supplemented  or  restated  by  certificates  of  amendment,  merger  or
  consolidation or other certificates or instruments filed or issued under
  any statute; or (b) a special act or  charter  creating  a  domestic  or
  foreign corporation, as amended, supplemented or restated.
17.  The  term  "member  of a corporation" means one having membership
  rights in a  corporation  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  its
  certificate of incorporation or by-laws.
18.  The  term "office of a corporation" means the office the location
  of which is stated in the certificate of  incorporation  of  a  domestic
  corporation,   or   in  the  application  for  authority  of  a  foreign
  corporation or an amendment thereof. Such office need  not  be  a  place
  where business or activities are conducted by such corporation.
19. The term "business of a corporation" when used with reference to a
  corporation  formed  for  profit means the operations for the conduct of
  which the corporation is formed and may constitute "doing  of  business"
  or  "transaction of business" as those terms are used in the statutes of
  this state.
20. The term "conducting of activities" when used with reference to  a
  corporation  formed  not for profit means the operations for the conduct
  of which  the  corporation  is  formed  and  may  constitute  "doing  of
  business"  or  "transaction  of business" as those terms are used in the
  statues of this state.
21. The term "corporate law" when used in any law  means  the  general
  statutes  relating  to corporations included in the consolidated laws of
  which this chapter is a part.