N.Y. General Municipal Law § 800: Definitions

§ 800. Definitions. When used in this article and unless otherwise

expressly stated or unless the context otherwise requires:

1. "Chief fiscal officer" means a comptroller, commissioner of

finance, director of finance or other officer possessing similar powers

and duties, except that in a school district the term shall not mean a

member of the board of education or a trustee thereof.

2. "Contract" means any claim, account or demand against or agreement

with a municipality, express or implied, and shall include the

designation of a depository of public funds and the designation of a

newspaper, including but not limited to an official newspaper, for the

publication of any notice, resolution, ordinance, or other proceeding

where such publication is required or authorized by law.

3. "Interest" means a direct or indirect pecuniary or material benefit

accruing to a municipal officer or employee as the result of a contract

with the municipality which such officer or employee serves. For the

purposes of this article a municipal officer or employee shall be deemed

to have an interest in the contract of (a) his spouse, minor children

and dependents, except a contract of employment with the municipality

which such officer or employee serves, (b) a firm, partnership or

association of which such officer or employee is a member or employee,

(c) a corporation of which such officer or employee is an officer,

director or employee and (d) a corporation any stock of which is owned

or controlled directly or indirectly by such officer or employee.

4. "Municipality" means a county, city, town, village, school

district, consolidated health district, county vocational education and

extension board, public library, board of cooperative educational

services, urban renewal agency, a joint water works system established

pursuant to chapter six hundred fifty-four of the laws of nineteen

hundred twenty-seven, or a town or county improvement district, district

corporation, or other district or a joint service established for the

purpose of carrying on, performing or financing one or more improvements

or services intended to benefit the health, welfare, safety or

convenience of the inhabitants of such governmental units or to benefit

the real property within such units, an industrial development agency

but shall have no application to a city having a population of one

million or more or to a county, school district, or other public agency

or facility therein.

5. "Municipal officer or employee" means an officer or employee of a

municipality, whether paid or unpaid, including members of any

administrative board, commission or other agency thereof and in the case

of a county, shall be deemed to also include any officer or employee

paid from county funds. No person shall be deemed to be a municipal

officer or employee solely by reason of being a volunteer firefighter or

civil defense volunteer, except a fire chief or assistant fire chief.

6. "Treasurer" means a county treasurer, city treasurer, town

supervisor, village treasurer, school district treasurer, fire district

treasurer, improvement district treasurer, president of a board of

health of a consolidated health district, county vocational educational

and extension board treasurer, treasurer of a board of cooperative

educational services, public general hospital treasurer, or other

officer possessing similar powers and duties.