2023 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.