2006 New York Code - Definitions.

 
    § 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.