2019 New York Laws
VAT - Vehicle and Traffic
Title 3 - Safety Responsibility; Financial Security; Equipment; Inspection; Size and Weight; and Other Provisions
Article 7 - Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act
359 - Definitions.

§ 359. Definitions.  The following words and phrases when used in this
article shall, for the purpose  of  this  article,  have  the  following
meanings: (a) The singular shall include the plural; the masculine shall
include the feminine and neuter, as requisite.
  (b) Commissioner. The commissioner of motor vehicles of this state.
  (c)  Department. The department of motor vehicles of this state acting
directly or through its duly authorized officers and agents.
  (d)  Person.   Shall   include   individuals,   firms,   partnerships,
associations, corporations, receivers, referees, trustees, assignees for
the  benefit  of  creditors;  executors  and  administrators;  and shall
include the owner of any motor  vehicle  as  requisite;  but  shall  not
include the state or any political subdivision thereof.
  (g)  Owner.  A person who holds the legal title of a motor vehicle; or
in the event a motor vehicle is subject to a security interest, or lease
with the right of purchase upon performance of conditions stated in  the
lease  and with an immediate right of possession vested in the debtor or
lessee, then such debtor or lessee shall be deemed  the  owner  for  the
purpose of this act.
  (h)  Insured. The person in whose name there is issued a motor vehicle
liability policy, as defined in  this  article,  and  any  other  person
insured under the terms of such policy.
  (i)  Judgment.  Any  judgment, except a judgment rendered against this
state or any political subdivision thereof or any municipality  therein,
which  shall  have become final by expiration without appeal of the time
within which appeal might have been perfected, or by final affirmance on
appeal, rendered by a court of competent jurisdiction of any state,  any
province of Canada, the Dominion of Canada, the District of Columbia, or
the United States.
  (j) Non-resident. Every person who is not a resident of this state.
  (k)  Motor  vehicle. As used in this article, the term "motor vehicle"
shall be defined as in section one hundred twenty-five of this  chapter,
except  that  it shall also include trailers, semi-trailers and tractors
other than tractors used  exclusively  for  agricultural  purposes,  and
shall   exclude  fire  and  police  vehicles,  self-propelled  combines,
self-propelled  corn  and  hay  harvesting   machines,   tractors   used
exclusively  for agricultural purposes and self-propelled caterpillar or
crawler-type equipment while being operated on the contract site.