New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 17 - DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION › Chapter III - Airports › Part 78 - Operation And Use Of Republic Airport › General › Section 78.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
The following terms shall have these meanings:
(a) Aircraft shall mean and include any and
				  all contrivances now or hereafter used for the navigation of or flight in air
				  or space, including, but not limited to, airplanes, airships, dirigibles,
				  rockets, helicopters, gliders, sailplanes, amphibians, and seaplanes.
(b) Airport shall mean Republic Airport, East
				  Farmingdale, Long Island, New York.
(c) Airport operator shall mean the New York
				  State Department of Transportation or its managing agent.
(d) Air operations area shall mean that
				  portion of the airport reserved exclusively for the storage, movement, takeoff,
				  and landing of aircraft.
(e)
				  Commercial activity shall mean and include any and all activity conducted at or
				  out of the airport by any person, copartnership, company, corporation, or any
				  other entity in which any product is exchanged or sold or any service provided
				  for monetary gain or exchange of services.
(f) Fixed base operator shall mean a firm
				  doing business at the airport dedicated to the sale, storage, and hangaring of
				  aircraft, the sale of petroleum, oil and lubricants, the services of
				  maintenance, repair, and modification of aircraft, engines and ancillary
				  equipment, the cleaning and provisioning of aircraft, and the provision of
				  transient and related services.
(g)
				  Flight training shall mean any use of an aircraft to increase or maintain pilot
				  proficiency rather than the use of an aircraft as transportation between two
				  different airports. In addition, flight training shall mean any portion of a
				  flight between two different airports to increase or maintain pilot
				  proficiency..
(h) Fuel shall mean
				  any substance, either solid, liquid, or gaseous, used to operate any engine in
				  an aircraft or vehicle.
(i) Fuel
				  handling shall mean the transporting, delivering, fueling, and draining of fuel
				  or fuel waste products.
(j) Jet
				  aircraft shall mean and include any and all aircraft which are not
				  propeller-driven, and which accomplish motion entirely as a direct reaction to
				  the thrust of any engine, including, but not limited to engines which operate
				  on turbine, ram, rocket, or nuclear principles.
(k) Operator shall mean the owner of an
				  aircraft or any person who has rented or leased such an aircraft for the
				  purpose of operation by himself or his own agents or any person operating an
				  aircraft.
(l) Permission shall mean
				  a right or approval granted by the airport operator.
(m) Person shall mean any individual, firm,
				  copartnership, corporation, association, or company including any assignee,
				  receiver, trustee, or similar representative thereof; or the United States of
				  America or any foreign government or any state or political subdivision
				  thereof, or the United Nations.
(n)
				  Rules and regulations shall mean these rules and regulations as herein set
				  forth in this Part.
(o) Sale shall
				  mean the provision or exchange of goods or services between any person on or
				  off the airport including the use of any goods or services by any lessee,
				  sublessee, concessionaire, permittee or itself, for its own purposes in pursuit
				  of any commercial activity.
(p)
				  Touch-and-go shall mean the act of landing an aircraft on a runway and
				  immediately taking off before coming to a full stop.
(q) Vehicle shall mean and include
				  automobiles, trucks, trailers, buses, motorcycles, horse-drawn vehicles,
				  bicycles, push carts, and any other device in or upon or by which any person or
				  property is or may be transported, carried, or drawn upon land, except railroad
				  rolling equipment or other devices running only on stationary rails or tracks
				  or aircraft.