N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 2101: Definitions

§ 2101. Definitions. Except when the context otherwise requires, as

used in this article:

(a) "Dealer" means a person registered as a dealer under section four

hundred fifteen or twenty-two hundred fifty-seven of this chapter.

(b) "Commissioner" includes the office and a branch office of the

commissioner and, when authorized to receive a document or fee as agent

of the commissioner, the clerk of a county.

(c) "Identifying number" means the numbers, and letters if any, on a

vehicle designated by the commissioner for the purpose of identifying

the vehicle.

(d) "Implement of husbandry" means a vehicle designed and adapted

exclusively for agricultural, horticultural or livestock raising

operations or for lifting or carrying an implement of husbandry and in

either case not subject to registration if used upon the highways.

(e) "Lienholder" means a person holding a security interest in a

vehicle.

(f) To "mail" means to deposit in the United States mail properly

addressed and with postage prepaid.

(g) "Owner" means a person, other than a lienholder, having the

property in or title to a vehicle. The term includes a person entitled

to the use and possession of a vehicle subject to a security interest in

another person, but excludes a lessee under a lease not intended as

security.

(h) "Person" means a natural person, firm, co-partnership, association

or corporation.

(i) "Pole trailer" means a vehicle without motive power designed to be

drawn by another vehicle and attached to the towing vehicle by means of

a reach, or pole, or by being boomed or otherwise secured to the towing

vehicle, and ordinarily used for transporting long or irregularly shaped

loads such as logs, poles, pipes, or structural members capable,

generally, of sustaining themselves as beams between the supporting

connections.

(j) "Security agreement" means a written agreement which reserves or

creates a security interest.

(k) "Security interest" means an interest in a vehicle reserved or

created by agreement and which secures payment or performance of an

obligation. The term includes the interest of a lessor under a lease

intended as security. The term also includes an interest in a vehicle

pursuant to a lien arising under section two hundred eleven of the lien

law and section one hundred eleven-u of the social services law. A

security interest is "perfected" when it is valid against third parties

generally, subject only to specific statutory exceptions.

(l) "Special mobile equipment" means a vehicle not designed for the

transportation of persons or property upon a highway and only

incidentally operated or moved over a highway, which if registered would

be registered pursuant to schedule F of subdivision seven of section

four hundred one of this chapter.

(m) "State" means a state, territory or possession of the United

States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a

province of the Dominion of Canada.

(n) "Vehicle" means a vehicle as defined in section one hundred

fifty-nine of this chapter except that it shall not include a device for

which a registration is denied pursuant to section four hundred-a of

this chapter and, except with respect to section twenty-one hundred two

of this article, shall also mean a vessel as defined in section

twenty-two hundred fifty of this chapter. Unless otherwise specified,

"vehicle" also means a "mobile home" or a "manufactured home" as defined

in section one hundred twenty-two-c of this chapter.