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Section 1150. Definitions.
For the purposes of this charter:
   1.   The term "city" shall mean the city of New York, and unless the context otherwise requires, shall include the several boroughs.
   2.   The term "agency" shall mean a city, county, borough, or other office, position, administration, 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.
   3.   The term "law" or "laws" shall include the constitution, this charter, any statute, the administrative code, any local law, and any ordinance, rule or regulation having the force of law.
   4.   The term "statute" shall mean an act of the legislature.
   5.   The term "maintenance" shall include minor repairs, and in case of doubt the mayor or an officer designated by him shall decide whether a repair is a minor repair.
   6.   The term "intercepting sewer" shall mean 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 council shall decide whether a sewer is an intercepting sewer.
   7.   a.   The term "wharf property" shall mean 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.
      b.   "Water front property" shall mean all 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.
      c.   "Water front commerce" shall mean 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.
      d.   "Furtherance of navigation" shall mean the activity on water front property which involves ship building, ship repairing, boating, dry dock facilities and similar uses.
   8.   The term "the port of New York" shall include 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.
   9.   The terms "three-fourths vote" and "two-thirds vote" when they apply to the council shall mean respectively three-fourths and two-thirds of all the members of the council are entitled to cast.
   10.   The term "administrative code" shall mean the administrative code of the city.
   11.   The term "budget" shall mean the expense budget unless the context otherwise requires.
   12.   Except as in this charter otherwise provided, the term "real property" shall include real estate, lands, tenements and hereditaments, corporeal or incorporeal.
   13.   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.
Editor's note: For related unconsolidated provisions, see Administrative Code Appendix A at L.L. 1998/027.