New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 21 - Miscellaneous › Chapter LXXI - Battery Park City Authority › Part 9003 - Parks Rules And Regulations Of The Battery Park City Authority And The Battery Park City Parks Corporation › Section 9003.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) Battery Park
				City means the mixed use development consisting of residential and commercial
				development, public parks property, infrastructure, civic and other facilities
				located at the southwest area of Manhattan, as defined in the Act, generally
				bounded by West Street on the east, the Hudson River on the west, Battery Place
				and Battery Park on the south and the westerly extension of Jay Street on the
				north.
(b) BPCA means the Battery
				Park City Authority, a public benefit corporation established pursuant to
				chapter 343 of the Laws of 1968, as amended and set forth in title 12 of the
				New York Public Authorities Law (the "Act"), or its successors, or assigns;
				where these rules refer to action by the BPCA, such action shall mean that
				taken by the president of the BPCA or his or her designee(s).
(c) Esplanade means the waterfront esplanade
				portion of the parks adjacent to the Hudson River, and which, South of the
				Plaza, consists of two levels, an inland "upper level" and a "lower level"
				closer to the Hudson River.
(d)
				Motor vehicle refers to any automobile, motorcycle, moped, or other vehicle
				propelled by a motor.
(e) Owner or
				owning refers to any person owning, operating, or having the use or control of
				an animal, a vehicle or any other personal property.
(f) Park, parks or park property signifies
				any or all of the mapped public parks, waters and land under water, pools,
				esplanades, playgrounds, recreation centers of, and adjacent to, Battery Park
				City and all other property, equipment, buildings and facilities, including
				park streets, related thereto now or hereafter under the jurisdiction, charge
				or control of ParksCorp.
(g)
				ParksCorp refers to the Battery Park City Parks Corporation incorporated under
				the New York State Not-for-Profit Corporation Law, tax-exempt under section
				501(a), as an organization described in section 501(c)(3), of the United States
				Internal Revenue Code, and which is responsible for the operation and
				maintenance of the parks, acting for and on behalf of the BPCA pursuant to a
				management agreement or otherwise; where these rules refer to action by
				ParksCorp, such action shall mean that taken by the president or executive
				director of the ParksCorp or his or her designees. In the event ParksCorp fails
				or is unable for any reason to take any action it is specifically authorized to
				take under these rules, or ceases to exist, the BPCA may (but shall not be
				required to) take such action in lieu of ParksCorp, and where BPCA takes such
				action, the term ParksCorp shall mean BPCA.
(h) Park sign means any placard, notice or
				sign duly posted by or on behalf of ParksCorp.
(i) Park street means the greater of the full
				width of all streets abutting any park, or, for any street which terminates at
				any of the parks 350 linear feet along such street up to the building line,
				including all sidewalks and areas between the sidewalks and curbs.
(j) Permit unless otherwise specified, means
				any written authorization issued by or under the authority of ParksCorp for a
				specified privilege, permitting the performance of a specified act or acts in
				any park or on any park street.
(k)
				Person means any natural person, corporation, society, organization, company,
				association, firm, partnership, or other entity.
(l) Plaza means that portion of the mapped
				parks within Battery Park City adjacent to the World Financial Center, known as
				the Battery Park City Plaza, more fully described in the plaza
				regulations.
(m) Plaza regulations
				means the rules and regulations, as may be adopted and modified from time to
				time, of the BPCA and/or ParksCorp, including the events regulations as defined
				in the plaza regulations, which are or may be from time to time in effect for
				the plaza.
(n) Police officer
				refers to any member of the Police Department of the City of New York and any
				other city employee who is a special patrolman or officer appointed pursuant to
				procedures established by that police department, any other special patrolman
				or New York State police officer assigned to and under the direction of
				ParksCorp, the BPCA, and any other peace officer.
(o) Regulations or rules unless otherwise
				specified, refers to these rules and regulations and the plaza regulations
				together.
(p) Sexual activity means
				any activity by a person that reasonably appears to be intended to sexually
				arouse that person or another person, and in which such person exposes his or
				her buttock or genitalia, or the area of the female breast below the top of the
				areola.
(q) Sound reproduction
				device includes, but is not limited to, any radio receiver, phonograph,
				television receiver, musical instrument, tape recorder, cassette or disc
				player, speaker device or system and any sound amplifier.
(r) Sound system means any device or devices
				for reproduction or amplification intended to increase the volume or change the
				pitch of the human voice, music or other sound tone, vibration or
				waves.
(s) WFC means the World
				Financial Center, a commercial, office and retail development located in
				Battery Park City and adjacent to the plaza, consisting of four office towers
				with principal addresses of One, Two, Three and Four World Financial Center,
				the Winter Garden, pedestrian passageways, and related facilities.