New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 17 - DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION › Chapter III - Airports › Part 79 - Stewart International Airport Rules And Regulations › General › Section 79.1 - 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 125 contrivances now or hereafter used for the navigation of or flight in
				  air or space.
(b) Airport shall
				  mean Stewart International Airport, Newburgh, 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, in which any product is exchanged or sold, or
				  any service provided for monetary gain or exchange of goods or
				  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 pursuant to an agreement with the
				  airport operator.
(g) Flight
				  training shall mean any use of an aircraft to increase or maintain pilot
				  proficiency.
(h) Fuel shall mean
				  the 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 defueling 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.
(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 in writing.
(m) Person shall mean any individual, firm,
				  co-partnership, 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 set forth in
				  this Part.
(o) Touch-and-go shall
				  mean the act of landing an aircraft on a runway and immediately departing
				  before coming to a full stop.
(p)
				  Vehicle shall mean and include automobiles, trucks, trailers, buses,
				  motorcycles, horsedrawn 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.