2023 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.