Editor's note: this section has been amended by L.L. 2024/012, 1/6/2024, eff. 10/2/2024.
Unless expressly otherwise provided, whenever used in the code, the following terms shall mean or include:
1. "Agency". A city, county, borough, or other office, department, division, bureau, board or commission, or a corporation, institution or agency of government, the expenses of which are paid in whole or in part from the city treasury.
2. "Budget". The expense budget unless the context otherwise requires.
3. "Charter". The New York city charter.
4. "City". The city of New York.
5. "County". Any county wholly included within the city of New York.
6. "Employee". Any person whose salary in whole or in part is paid out of the city treasury.
7. "Intercepting sewer". A sewer the principal purpose of which is the interception from other sewers and conveyance of sewage to treatment plants. In case of doubt the board of estimate shall decide whether a sewer is an intercepting sewer.
8. "Law". Any provision of the constitution, enactments of the state legislature, the charter, the administrative code, any local law, or any rule or regulation adopted pursuant to any of the aforementioned.
9. "Maintenance". Includes minor repairs, and in case of doubt the mayor or an officer designated by him shall decide whether a repair is a minor repair.
10. "Person". A natural person, co-partnership, firm, company, association, joint stock association, corporation or other like organization.
11. "Real property". Includes real estate, lands, tenements and hereditaments, corporeal or incorporeal.
12. "Statute". Any enactment of the legislature of the state of New York.
13. "Street". Any public street, avenue, road, alley, lane, highway, boulevard, concourse, parkway, driveway, culvert, sidewalk, crosswalk, boardwalk, viaduct, square or place, except marginal streets.
14. "The code". The administrative code of the city.
15. "The port of New York". Includes all the waters of the North River, the East River and the Harlem River and all the tidal waters embraced within or adjacent to or opposite to the shores of the city.
16. "Three-fourths vote and two-thirds vote". When they apply to the board of estimate, shall mean, respectively, three-fourths and two-thirds of the total number of votes which all the members of the board are entitled to cast.
17. "Wharf property". Wharves, piers, docks and bulkheads and structures thereon and slips and basins, the land beneath any of the foregoing, and all rights, privileges and easements appurtenant thereto and land under water in the port of New York, and such upland or made land adjacent thereto as was vested in the department of docks on January first, nineteen hundred thirty-eight or thereafter was or may be assigned to it or its successor agencies.
18. "Water front property". Property fronting on all the tidal waters in the port and city of New York and extending inshore to the property line of the first adverse owner and shall include such land under water extending outshore to the pierhead line or the property line, whichever extends furthest outshore.
19. "Water front commerce". The activity on water front property which encompasses the receipt of cargo or goods at the wharves, piers, docks or bulkheads from ships and their delivery to points inland or the receipt of such cargo or goods at such wharves, piers, docks or bulkheads from points inland for shipment by ships and shall include the temporary storage of such cargo or goods in the sheds or warehouses on such property pending their delivery or shipment.
20. "Furtherance of navigation". The activity on water front property which involves ship building, ship repairing, boating, dry dock facilities and similar uses.
21. The term "domestic partner" shall mean persons who have a registered domestic partnership pursuant to section 3-240 of the administrative code, a domestic partnership registered in accordance with executive order number 123, dated August 7, 1989, or a domestic partnership registered in accordance with executive order number 48, dated January 7, 1993.
22. "Notice of violation". An instrument charging a person or entity with violation of a local law or rule. "Notice of violation" shall be deemed to include a "civil summons", "a summons for a civil violation" and a "notice of hearing".
(Am. L.L. 2016/071, 6/13/2016, eff. 6/13/2016)
Editor's note: For related unconsolidated provisions, see Appendix A at L.L. 1998/027 and L.L. 2016/071.