2012 New York Consolidated Laws
PEN - Penal
Part 3 - SPECIFIC OFFENSES
Title K - OFFENSES INVOLVING FRAUD
Article 175 - (175.00 - 175.45) OFFENSES INVOLVING FALSE WRITTEN STATEMENTS
175.00 - Definitions of terms.

 
  § 175.00 Definitions of terms.
    The following definitions are applicable to this article:
    1.  "Enterprise" means any entity of one or more persons, corporate or
  otherwise,  public  or  private,  engaged   in   business,   commercial,
  professional,    industrial,    eleemosynary,   social,   political   or
  governmental activity.
    2. "Business record" means any writing or article, including  computer
  data  or a computer program, kept or maintained by an enterprise for the
  purpose of evidencing or reflecting its condition or activity.
    3. "Written instrument" means any  instrument  or  article,  including
  computer  data  or  a  computer  program,  containing written or printed
  matter or the equivalent thereof, used  for  the  purpose  of  reciting,
  embodying,  conveying or recording information, or constituting a symbol
  or evidence of value,  right,  privilege  or  identification,  which  is
  capable of being used to the advantage or disadvantage of some person.