2006 New York Code - Definitions.

 
  § 45-0105. Definitions.
    As  used  or  referred  to  in this article unless a different meaning
  clearly appears from the context:
    1. The term  "trust"  shall  mean  the  state  nature  and  historical
  preserve trust continued by section 45-0107 of this article.
    2.  The  term  "trustee"  shall mean the commissioner of environmental
  conservation.
    3. The term "real property" shall mean  lands  and  waters,  including
  improvements  thereon, structures, and hereditaments, title to which may
  be in fee simple absolute or any  lesser  interest,  including  but  not
  limited  to,  easements, rights of way, uses, leases, licenses and every
  estate, interest or right, legal or equitable.
    4. The term "preserve" shall mean  the  state  nature  and  historical
  preserve,  as  referred  to  in  section  4  of article XIV of the State
  Constitution.
    5. The term "lands of ecological significance" shall mean  state-owned
  lands  and  waters that harbor plants, animals or ecological communities
  that are rare in New York state or exemplary occurrences of more  common
  ecological  communities.  For  the  purposes  of  this article, the term
  "exemplary   occurrences   of   an   ecological   community"   means   a
  representative,  high  quality  example  of a given ecological community
  type, characterized by a distinctive assemblage of interacting plant and
  animal populations.