2023 New York Laws › PAR - Parks, recreation and historic preservation › Title A - Short Title; Definitions › Article 1 - Short Title; Definitions › 1.03 - Definitions.

§  1.03 Definitions. Whenever used in this chapter, unless a different
meaning clearly appears from the context:
1. "Office" shall mean the  state  office  of  parks,  recreation  and
historic preservation.
2.   "Commissioner"  shall  mean  the  state  commissioner  of  parks,
recreation and historic preservation.
3. "Council" shall mean the state council  of  parks,  recreation  and
historic preservation.
4.  "Regional  park,  recreation and historic preservation commission"
shall  mean  a  regional  park,  recreation  and  historic  preservation
commission as described in section 7.03.
5.  "Person" shall mean any individual, partnership, public or private
corporation,  political  subdivision  (including  a  school   district),
department,  bureau  or  division  of  the state or a government agency,
association, firm, trust,  estate,  joint-venture  or  any  other  legal
entity whatsoever.
6.  "Region"  or "park region" shall mean a park region as established
by the provisions of section 7.01.
7. "Municipality" shall mean a city, county, town or  village,  or  an
improvement  district  within  a city, county, town or village or within
any combination thereof.
8. "Governing body" shall mean:
(a) in the case of a town, the town board;
(b) in the case of a county outside the city of New York,  the  county
board of supervisors or other elective governing body;
(c) in the case of a city, the local legislative body thereof.
(d)  in the case of a village, the board of trustees or other elective
governing body;
(e) in the case of an improvement district, the official body or board
having responsibility for the conduct of the affairs of such district.
9. "Improvement district" shall mean  an  improvement,  assessment  or
special district.
10. "Property" shall mean real or personal property.
11.  "Real  property"  shall  mean  lands, improvements and structures
thereon, rights, franchises and interests therein, lands under water and
riparian rights, and any and all  interests  in  lands  less  than  full
title,  including,  without limitation, temporary or permanent easements
(including scenic  or  conservation  easements),  divided  or  undivided
interests,  rights of way, uses, leases, licenses, and any other estate,
interest or right in lands, legal or equitable.
12. "Personal property" shall mean any property, or interest  therein,
other than real property.
14.  "Historic  site"  shall  mean  any  real  property,  buildings or
structures acquired or designated by the commissioner  pursuant  to  his
historic  preservation  powers, functions and duties, and those historic
sites continued pursuant to the provisions of sections 13.01 and 19.05.
15. "Traffic" shall mean traffic as defined  in  section  one  hundred
fifty-two of the vehicle and traffic law.
16.  "Highway"  shall mean a highway as defined in section one hundred
eighteen of the vehicle and traffic law.
17. "Parkway" shall mean a highway heretofore or hereafter acquired or
constructed by the department, a regional park commission or  any  state
park  or  parkway  authority  for  the purpose of access to state parks,
which is listed in the  regulations  of  the  commissioner  pursuant  to
section 13.03.
18.  "Vehicle"  shall mean a vehicle as defined in section one hundred
fifty-nine of the vehicle and traffic law.